Pantep Angchaisuksiri, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Unit in the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. He also holds posts of Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, North Carolina. Professor Angchaisuksiri is a medical graduate of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and was trained in Internal Medicine at Prince of Songkla University and Hematology at Mahidol University. He was also a clinical and postdoctoral fellow in Hematology/Oncology at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA. An active clinician, Professor Angchaisuksiri works with patients with thrombosis, hemophilia and other bleeding disorders, and has authored and co-authored papers relating to hemostasis and thrombosis in several leading international scientific journals. He is the President-elect of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), a council member of the Asian-Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (APSTH), and an Associate Editor of the Journal Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH).