Brief Biography

Dr. Victor Blanchette is a staff physician in the Division of Haematology/Oncology at the Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research Institute and a Clinician Investigator in the Department of Paediatrics. Dr. Blanchette received his medical training at the University of Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the United Kingdom. His post-graduate medical training included a paediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA and a fellowship in paediatric haematology/oncology at McMaster University Medical Centre in Canada. Dr. Blanchette's research interest is in the area of the congenital and acquired bleeding disorders of children. He is Director of the Paediatric Haemophilia and Thrombosis/Bleeding Disorders Programs at the Hospital for Sick Children and is Chairman of the Factor Prophylaxis Subcommittee of the Association of the Hemophilia Clinic Directors of Canada (AHCDC). Dr. Blanchette is Chair of the Canadian Paediatric Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network and a founding member of an Intercontinental Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) Study Group. In 2002, Dr. Blanchette was appointed as the Inaugural Holder of the Women’s Auxillary Millenium Chair in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology. Dr. Blanchette is Principal Investigator for the Hospital for Sick Children in the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and he is Co-Chair of the recently formed Council of Canadian Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Directors Group. Dr. Blanchette is a member of the Boards of the Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO), Camp Oochigeas, Camp Trillium and Candlelighters Canada. Dr. Blanchette is an elected fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom.

Academic Background

Paediatric Haematology

McMaster University Medical Centre, 1977-07-01 - 1979-07-01

Research Interests

• Clinical and Basic Science Studies of the Immune Thrombocytopenias of Childhood;
• Studies in Children with Haemophilia A and B and Other Inherited Bleeding Disorders;
• Development of Paediatric Transfusion Medicine Guideline

Achievements

• Inaugural Holder
  Women’s Auxillary Millenium Chair in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology
  Hospital for Sick Children
  Toronto, Ontario
• Elected Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom. 1990

Publications

Carcao MD, Blanchette VS, Stephens D, He L, Wakefield CD, Butchart S, Christie DJ, Rand ML: Assessment of thrombocytopenic disorders using the platelet function analyzer (PFA-100). British Journal of Haematology 2002; 117(4): 947-951.

Berman J, Young NL, Carcao MD, Blanchette VS, Ipp M: Hospitalization of children with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: Is it necessary? Pediatrics and Child Health 2002.

Carcao MD, Blanchette VS, Wakefield CD, Stephens D, Ellis J, Matheson K, Denomme GA: Fc-gamma receptor IIa and IIIa polymorphisms in childhood immune thrombocytopenic purpura. British Journal of Haematology 2002.

Revel-Vilk S, Blanchette VS, Sparling C, Stain A.M., Carcao MD: DDAVP challenge tests in boys with mild/moderate haemophilia A. British Journal of Haematology 2001.