2021 Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis Lecturer – Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD, FAHA

Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD, FAHA is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, BS ’91, PhD ’96). She conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University Medical Center and is now Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine with tenure at UNC. Dr. Wolberg’s expertise is in physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms in hemostasis and thrombosis, including in vitro and in vivo models of bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Ongoing work in her laboratory includes studies on contributions of fibrin(ogen), factor XIII, and red blood cells to thrombosis, role of female hormones and oral contraceptives in venous thromboembolism, mechanisms in cancer-associated thrombosis, and elucidating mechanisms that mediate clot formation and stability in hemophilia A and B and factor XI deficiency (hemophilia C). Dr. Wolberg directs UNC’s T32 and Program in Translational Medicine. She is also a member of the governing Council of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), the Board of Directors of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society, and the NIH/HTBT study section. Dr. Wolberg is an Associate Editor for Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis and serves on the editorial boards for Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, Blood, Blood Advances, and the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. She previously was chair of the AHA/ATVB Brinkhous Award Committee and Scientific Co-Chair of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2020 Annual Meeting, and is currently Vice Chair of the ASH Committee on Scientific Affairs.