April 8, 2005

Melanie Bloom speaks at MGH

Two years ago, Melanie Bloom lost her husband, NBC reporter David Bloom, while he was covering the war in Iraq. He didn't die from injuries suffered during combat. He died of a pulmonary embolism, a complication arising from deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), a medical condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in one of the large veins, usually in the lower limbs, leading to either partially or completely blocked circulation.

Melanie Bloom spoke about the devastation that DVT had on her family before a hushed and packed audience in the O'Keeffe Auditorium March 30. The national spokesperson for the DVT Coalition, Bloom was the keynote speaker at a symposium about DVT sponsored by the MGH Vascular Center. Other speakers at the one-hour event included Michael Jaff, DO, (pictured at left with Bloom), director of MGH Vascular Medicine, Stephan Wicky, MD, of MGH Radiology, and Christopher Kwolek, MD, of MGH Vascular Surgery.