Helpful Links
American Heart Association (AHA)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Primary Focus: Cardiovasular Health Care Professional and Patient Education, Advocacy, Research American Stroke Association (ASA): Focuses on reducing risk, disability and death from stroke through research, education, fundraising and advocacy.
American Society of Hematology (ASH)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic and vascular systems, by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology.
Primary Focus: Hematology Education and Advocacy
American Thrombosis & Hemostasis Network (ATHN)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To reduce and provide stewardship of a secure national database, adherent to all privacy guidelines, which will be used to support clinical outcomes analysis, research, advocacy, and public health, reporting in the hemostasis and thrombosis community.
Primary Focus: Hemostasis and Thrombosis Data and Analysis
The Anticoagulation Forum (ACF)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To promote coordinated management of oral anticoagulation through the model of anticoagulation clinics.
Primary Focus: Patient Care Advocacy, Health Care Professional Education
The Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis
For-profit agency
Mission: To reduce the immediate and long-term dangers of deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE), which together comprise one of the nation’s leading causes of death. The Coalition will educate the public, healthcare professionals and policy-makers about risk factors, symptoms and signs associated with DVT, as well as identify evidence-based measures to prevent morbidity and mortality from DVT and PE.
Primary Focus: DVT Public Awareness, and Policy
ClotCare
Non-profit agency
Mission: To help others improve lives by providing both patients and healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information and expert insight on optimal use of antithrombotic and anticoagulant therapy. In achieving this end, ClotCare seeks to be the premier source to which patients and clinicians turn to get information on these therapies used to prevent and/or treat unwanted blood clots that cause heart attacks, strokes, and other potentially catastrophic events.
Primary Focus: DVT Patient and Health Care Professional Information and Resources
The Hemophilia & Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To promote the care of persons with hemophilia and other bleeding or clotting disorders through collaborative research and postgraduate education. The Society was incorporated in 1994, and has grown to include a membership of clinicians, scientists, health care providers, and industry representatives whose focus is hemostasis and thrombosis. HTRS is dedicated to promoting implementation of clinical research that will improve the care of persons affected with disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis, in particular those persons with hemophilia. The HTRS is especially interested in supporting the development of the next generation of clinicians dedicated to this field.
Primary Focus: Hemophilia and Thrombosis Physician Education
National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia (NATT)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To prevent, diagnose and treat thrombosis and thrombophilia through research, education, support and advocacy.
Primary Focus: DVT Patient Support and Education
PreventPTS.org
Information website
Mission: To inform the public about Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS), its conditions, and its treatment.
Primary Focus: PTS Education and Prevention
Quebec Society of Vascular Sciences (QSVS)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To create a multidisciplinary forum in order to optimize vascular disease management.
Primary Focus: Physicians, Researchers, Professionals, and Groups Whose Profession, Occupation, or Mission is Related to Vascular Sciences.
Thrombosis and Haemostasis: International Journal for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Medical Journal
The Thrombosis Interest Group of Canada
Mission: To further education and research in the prevention and treatment of thrombosis.
Primary Focus: Thrombosis Health Care Professional Education
Thrombophilia Awareness Project
Non-profit agency
Mission: To help persons affected by thrombophilia by serving as a portal to a wide array of diverse and up-to-date information, education, treatment, research, peer support and more.
Primary Focus: Thrombophilia Patient Education
Thrombosis-Initiative
Non-profit agency
Mission: To raise awareness of thrombosis, improve medical supply, and ensure effective risk prophylaxis
Primary Focus: Thrombosis Awareness
Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To reduce death and disability from vascular diseases and improve vascular health.
Primary Focus: Vascular Disease Public Awareness, Health Care Professional Education, Patient Education and Support
Venous Disease Coalition (VDC)
Non-profit agency
Mission: To promote efforts to improve the survival rates and quality of life for individuals with, or at risk for, venous disease.
Primary Focus: Vascular Disease Public Awareness, Health Care Professional Education, Patient Education and Support
