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WFH mourns passing of Victor Stanley Blanchette, MD

It is with great sadness that the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) learned of the recent passing of Victor Stanley Blanchette, MD, Medical Director of the Paediatric Thrombosis and Haemostasis Program in the Division of Haematology/Oncology at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada, and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto.

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Victor Stanley Blanchette, MD, was dedicated to his field, and made a mark in the global inherited bleeding disorders community, especially in the Caribbean Islands. His efforts helped to educate and empower medical professionals from the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. He held many positions during his long tenure at the SickKids in Toronto, leading the bleeding disorders community in Toronto through the HIV crisis from 1983 to 1998, helping to found the Association of Hemophilia Clinic Directors of Canada (AHCDC), and, along with other specialists, establishing the Council of Canadian Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Directors.

Blanchette has been a valued volunteer of the WFH for many years, taking part in a successful WFH twinning with Barbados as well as initiating the medical twinning with the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Trinidad and Tobago, mentoring and helping our national member organizations (NMO) around the world, and, most recently, helping the countries involved in the Sick Kids Caribbean Initiative get involved in the World Bleeding Disorders Registry (WBDR).

On behalf of the global bleeding disorders community, the WFH would like to express its deepest sympathies to Victor Stanley Blanchette’s family members, friends, and colleagues.

To read tribute published by SickKids, please click here.

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