Dr. Frederick Spencer, Professor

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Publications: F._Spencer_Publications.doc

Dr. Frederick Spencer received his medical degree from McGill University in 1991. He completed his internal medicine residency at the New England Medical Center (Boston, MA) in 1994 and a cardiology fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, MA) in 1997. He then joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where he served as Director of the Coronary Care Unit as well as of the Anticoagulation Services and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center. In 2005, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at McMaster University in the Divisions of Hematology/Thrombosis and Cardiology. Dr. Spencer holds a Career Investigator Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Through the design and conduct of large observational studies, Dr. Spencer’s research is focused on improving our understanding of the current profile of patients at risk for arterial and venous disease and their complications as well as identifying and correcting deficiencies in timely diagnosis and management of these conditions. He is currently PI of the NIH-funded Worcester Venous Thromboembolism Study and the VENICE (Venous Thromboembolism in the Elderly: Natural History, Management, and Outcomes) Study. He is also co-PI of an NIH funded study of delay patterns in patients with heart failure.