Dr. Jack Hirsh, Professor Emeritus of Medicine C.M., M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), F.R.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., DSc.

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Dr Hirsh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He was the Founding Director of the Henderson Research Centre, and is a former Chairman of the Department of Medicine. He established a thrombosis program at McMaster University that has been pre-eminent in thrombosis research for over 3 decades and has trained scores of scientists who now head up thrombosis units throughout the world. He was a founding senior scientist of and Vice –President of Research of Vascular Therapeutics Inc. After earning both his MBBS and MD degrees at the University of Melbourne Medical School, Australia, he completed subsequent training at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, the London Postgraduate Medical School, and the University of Toronto. Dr Hirsh developed and then investigated diagnostic techniques that have improved and simplified the diagnosis of thromboembolism disorders. His investigation of heparin and warfarin set the standards for their dosing and clinical use internationally. He also pioneered the standardization of laboratory monitoring and dosing of warfarin, thereby increasing its safety and expanding its use to patients that had been denied the benefit of this oral anticoagulant. His studies contributed to the discovery of unique characteristics of low-molecular-weight heparin and led eventually to the identification of its potential clinical advantages. Dr Hirsh He has authored 224 book chapters; 18 books; 308 abstracts and 614 articles, which have been published in various publications including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Research. Dr Hirsh has received many national and international awards including Awards from the International Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis; the American Heart Association; the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Hematology. ; He received the Trillium Clinical Scientist Award from the Government of Ontario and the Prix Galien Canada. In 2000, Dr Hirsh was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall