Global Thrombosis Forum
The Global Thrombosis Forum(formerly Georgia Thrombosis Forum) has continued to develop innovative approaches to further education and research programs worldwide. In the past eleven years, consistent with the North American Thrombosis Forum’s objectives, training, and educational initiatives, the Global Thrombosis Forum, under the leadership of Dr. Atul Laddu, has made a major impact in inspiring public sectors. In particular, GTF has been focusing on younger students to promote awareness of thrombosis and its management at various levels. Such programs have recruited talented younger scholars who have participated in educational and translational research programs and public advocacy in an exemplary fashion. Under the strong leadership of Dr. Sam Goldhaber, President of the NATF, and Dr. Atul Laddu, President and CEO of GTF, these projects will continue to expand and will provide opportunities for younger students which will be helpful in their career planning and education to become physicians and scientists to serve healthcare and biomedical research programs.
GTF also has a close partnership with IUA on these programs. One of the major efforts and educational programs is organizing scientific symposia and meetings. For this reason, GTF and the North American Chapter of the IUA have planned annual symposia on select topics.
Central European Venous Forum (CEVF) 2024
September 19-21, 2024
GTF Scholars were invited to attend and present their posters at the joint congress of the 13th Central European Vascular Forum and the International Union of Angiology – Multinational Chapter, hosted by the Slovenian Society for Vascular Diseases from September 19-21, 2024 in in the captivating city of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The posters were very well received.
1. Benefit Risk Ratio: Aditya Patankar, Abhinav Paknikar
2. Cancer Associated Thrombosis: Arav Bongirwar
3. D-Dimer: Arushi Garud, Siddarth Suresh
PERT Consortium 2024
September 11-14, 2024
After attending a very successful meeting of the PERT Consortium in Austin, TX, in 2023, GTF Scholars were invited to participate in and present their research data at the 10th Annual Pulmonary Embolism Symposium from September 11-14, 2024, in Boston, MA.
The scholars presented the following research projects:
1. Cancer Associated Thrombosis: Arya Karmarkar, Avaneesh Jadhav, Avani Prabhu
2. Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia: Isha Labhsetwar, Keerti Chakravarthy, Uddip Kashyap
3. D-Dimer: Parnika Tanguturu, Rishi Motkur
4. Heparin Resistance: Maanas Deodhar, Srishti Sawant, Surabhi Fadnavis
The scholars, besides making impressive presentations, made several important contacts and generated new projects to be carried on in the next year: Women in Research (Keerti Chakravarthy), Global Heparin Shortage (Maanas Deodhar, Srishti Sawant and Surabhi Fadnavis), Artificial Intelligence (Uddip Kashyap).
High School Scholar’s Day (HSS) 2024
July 19, 2024
The HSS Day event held on July 19, 2024 was a huge success, with guests such as Drs. Margaret Callahan, Fakiha Siddiqui, Jawed Fareed, Joseph Caprini, Trent Reed attending.
GTF Scholar Posters –
EKOS catheter: Arya Karmarkar
Mentor: Anterpreet Dua, MD
Race and VTE: Srishti Sawant
Mentor: Atul Laddu, MD
Stress, Thrombosis, and cardiac arrest: Sahithi Rajuladevi, Aditya Patankar
Mentor: Girish Pore, MD
GTF Intern Research Presentations –
Hypercoagulable state in thalassemia patients: Aarushi Dua
Mentor: Neha Thomas, MD
Thrombogenesis in Sickle Cell Anemia: Krish Punyarthi, Preston Reed
Mentor: Neha Thomas, MD
Cancer associated thrombosis: Arushi Garud
Mentor: Fakiha Siddiqui, MD
International registry for cancer and thrombosis – RIETE trial: Priyanka Kavdikar
Mentor: Fakiha Siddiqui, MD
GTF Scholar Presentations –
Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia: Abhinav Paknikar, Siddharth Suresh
Mentor: Rashmi Kulkarni, MD
Heparin Resistance: Arav Raghunathan
Mentor: Sagar Garud, MD
Benefit Risk Ratio: Ayan Raghunathan, Surabhi Fadnavis
Mentor: Atul Laddu, MD
European Venous Forum (EVF) 2024
June 27-29, 2024
GTF Scholars were invited to attend and present their research data at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Venous Forum (EVF) meeting from June 27-29, 2024 in Athens, Greece.
The following GTF Scholars attended: Mr. Jibran Bokhary, Mr. Anish Joshi, Mr. Rishi Motkur, Ms. Nethra Pai, Mr. Krish Raina, and Ms. Nysha Reddy
The scholars presented their research data on the following topic: A Novel And Breakthrough Way To Collect Thrombosis Risk Assessment Data
Link to Powerpoint Presentation
The presentations were very well received.
31st World Congress of the IUA 2024
June 13-15, 2024
The collaboration of the Global Thrombosis Forum and the IUA started in 2022 when they made research presentations at the 30th World IUA Congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil. On June 13-15, 2024, group of proud 11 GTF Scholars (Arushi Garud, Divyanka Kavdikar, Harith Dhinakaran, Krish Raina, Mala Niverthi, Nethra Pai, Nysha Reddy, Priyanka Kavdikar, Richa Mahajan, Ragini Mohan, and Sia Lawrence) traveled to Porto, Portugal, to attend and make their PowerPoint research presentations at the 31st World IUA Congress.
The following is the listing of their research:
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding and Anticoagulants
Nysha Reddy, Harith Dhinakaran, Divyanka Kavdikar
Arushi Garud, Nethra Pai, Richa Mahajan
European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) Guidelines for Management of Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
Mala Niverthi, Priyanka Kavdikar
Heparin Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia
Krish Raina, Ragini Mohan, Sia Lawrence
The presentations, delivered in front of a captivated audience of nearly 140, were met with applause and appreciation, a testament to the quality and relevance of our scholars’ research.
Thrombosis and Hemostasis Society of North America 2024
April 04-06, 2024
GTF represented at THSNA 2024 along with 14 high school scholars who presented posters which were very well received by the audience. A lot of visitors stopped by the GTF booth and the general impression was that they were very surprised to see high schoolers being at the event and being so professional. GTF thus added another step in convincing the role and the power of the high school students in research.
Poster Presentations:
1. Influence of pharmaceutical industry on published clinical trial results:
Arav Ramanathan, Divyanka Kavdikar, Ishvari Mokadam, Siddarth Suresh, Fakiha Siddiqui, Atul Laddu, and Jawed Fareed
Priyanka Kavdikar, Ragini Mohan, Nysha Reddy, Neha Thomas, Fakiha Siddiqui, Atul Laddu, and Jawed Fareed
Abhinav Paknikar, Aarushi Dua, Anish Joshi, Keerti Chakravarthy, Fakiha Siddiqui, Atul Laddu, and Jawed Fareed
4. What is the role of family history in the management of VTE?:
Ayan Ramanathan, Ishan Dhaneshwar, Krish Punyarthi, Richa Mahajan, Joseph Caprini, Fakiha Siddiqui, Atul Laddu, and Jawed Fareed
4th Rajan Memorial Lecture/GTF Symposium 2024
January 14, 2024
Per GTF yearly tradition, the Rajan Memorial Symposium was arranged on this date, with Joseph Caprini, MD as the Keynote Speaker. The symposium gives a unique opportunity to the GTF Scholars to speak in a conference in front of the faculty, conduct independent research, create presentations, respond to the questions with confidence.
About 50 attendees, including Dr. Margaret Callahan, The Provost of Loyola University, and Prof. Jawed Fareed, were present. Please see the attached brochure and presentations.
Keynote Presentation – Prevention Of Fatal Pulmonary Emboli – The Missing Link
Joseph Caprini, MD
GTF Scholar Presentations –
Heparin Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia
Krish Raina, Ragini Mohan
Mentor: Neha Thomas
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (HMB) and Anticoagulants
Anvit Divekar, and Nysha Reddy
Mentor: Dr. Atul Laddu
Underutilization of Aspirin in secondary prevention
Arushi Garud, Nethra Pai
Mentor: Dr. Atul Laddu
Trust in Pharmaceutical Industries
Arushi Dua, Shriya Sawant, and Sonal Kapuria
Mentor: Dr. Atul Laddu
Concluding Presentation – Cancer-Associated Thrombosis: Biomarker of Thrombo-Inflammation
Drs. Fakiha Siddiqui, Amir Darki, Alfonso Tafur, Debra Hoppensteadt, Eduardo Ramacciotti, Bulent Kantarcioglu, Manuel Monreal, and Jawed Fareed
World Thrombosis Day
October 13, 2023
October 13, 2023, happened to be the World Thrombosis Day. On this Day, a symposium was held on the topic of Molecular Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis in collaboration with the PACO (Promoting Awareness of Clotting Outcomes) Foundation, Loyola University, International Union of Angiology, Global Thrombosis Forum, and North American Thrombosis Forum, with Drs. Amir Darki and Dr. Eduardo Ramacciotti and the Chairs.
See the brochure for details.
Three posters created by the GTF Scholars were presented at this event.
Cellular indices of PE
Mala Niverthi, Vivaan Karnik, Fakiha Siddiqui, Jawed Fareed, and Atul Laddu, Global Thrombosis Forum and Loyola University
Mentor: Neha Thomas
Genetic association of PE
Aneesh Natakala, Surabhi Fadnavis, Fakiha Siddiqui, Jawed Fareed, and Atul Laddu, Global Thrombosis Forum and Loyola University
Mentor: Dr. Atul Laddu
Pathophysiology of DVT
Aditya Patankar, Srishti Sawant, Maanas Deodhar, Fakiha Siddiqui, Jawed Fareed, and Atul Laddu, Global Thrombosis Forum and Loyola University
Mentor: Dr. Atul Laddu
In addition, 2 very interesting topics were presented by 2 GTF Scholars:
GTF Goes Global and the Impact of GTF on Our Lives
Maanas Deodhar
Outreach Initiative
Richa Mahajan
Link to the photos: https://link.shutterfly.com/8l91USg2mEb
PERT Consortium
September 20-23, 2023
Brochure
On September 20-23, 2023, the Ninth Pulmonary Embolism Symposium (www.pertconsortium.org) was held in Austin, TX. The following GTF scholars were privileged to be invited to attend the event and present their research work at the meeting:
Cellular Indices of PE
Abhinav Paknikar, Aniket Talanki, Sonal Kapuria, Neha Thomas and Atul Laddu
Pathophysiology of DVT
Avaneesh Jadhav, Harith Dhinakaran, and Atul Laddu
Pathophysiology of the Death Spiral of PE
Ishvari Mokadam, Ishanth Talanki, and Atul Laddu
Genetic association of PE
Nethra Pai, Anvit Divekar, Aditya Sathe, and Atul Laddu
In addition to the presentations, the GTF Scholars had a booth and also attended a live Physicians-in-Training Bootcamp where they observed live demonstrations of various procedures.
Link to the Boot Camp: https://pertconsortium.org/2022-pert-bootcamp/
Link to the photos: https://link.shutterfly.com/N5G91jq0vDb
GTF Internships at Silicon Valley Research Institute (SVRI), São Paulo, Brazil under Prof. Eduardo Ramacciotti, MD PhD
July 2023
In the true sense of GTF going Global, GTF is very proud to announce that our very first 3-week internship outside the U.S. was held in Sao Paulo, from July 3rd to July 21st, 2023. The GTF Board selected two of our brightest scholars, Arav Bongirwar and Krish Raina. The adults who accompanied these GTF Scholars were Dr. Divya Raina and Ms. Shubhangi Bongirwar.
Arav and Krish were involved in a variety of research projects (the PPT presentations and reports of the internships from Arav and Krish are listed below).
Since Arav and Krish were entering the research arena at the SVRI, each one of them took a qualifying test for HIPPA and were certified prior to initiating the internship.
This was by no means the end of our efforts, Dr. Ramacciotti has kindly extended his invitation to some other GTF scholars for the year 2024.
Oceanic-AF – Clinical Trial
Arav Bongirwar
Effect of Inclisiran on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Krish Raina
Virtual High School Scholars’ Day 2023
July 14, 2023
Program/Schedule
The HSS Day event held on July 14, 2023 was a huge success, with guests such as Drs. Bulent Kantarcioglu, Debra Hoppensteadt, Fakiah Siddiqui, Jawed Fareed, Jeanine Walenga, Joseph Caprini, Margaret Callahan attending.
The guests were very impressed at the selected topics and the high quality of presentations. It was indicated that GTF has now initiated joint programs with AC Forum, International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH), International Union of Angiology (IUA), Loyola, North American Thrombosis Forum (NATF), Promoting Awareness of Clotting Outcomes (PACO), Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT), Dr. Eduardo Ramacciotti, Turkish Society of Hematology (TSH), and Thrombosis and Hemostasis Society of North America (THSNA). Dr. Caprini is trying to get GTF connected with the American Venous Forum (AVF).
Presentations
DOAC use in the elderly.
Divyanka Kavdikar, Krish Raina, Rohit Dandavate
Influence of Pharmaceutical industry on development of drugs.
Harith Dhinakaran, Krish Punyarthi
Cellular Indices for DVT
Abhinav Paknikar, Anvit Divekar
Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Sonal Kapuria and Aneesh Natakala
Posters
History of COVID-19 and VTE
Arushi Garud, Nethra Pai
DVT Walk-in Clinic
Ragini Mohan, Arav Raghunathan
Thrombosis in pediatric cancer patients
Anish Joshi, Avaneesh Jadhav, and Arav Ragunathan
AC (Anticoagulation) Forum 2023, San Francisco, CA
April 01, 2023
Program/Schedule
April 1, 2023 was a very important and a special day for the GTF scholars and GTF, where Anish Joshi, Arushi Garud, Divya Honavar, Maya Sompalli, and Shivam Gupta presented their research work at the AC Forum Congress held in San Francisco. This was the first time that the GTF scholars had presented their research work at the AC Forum Congress. The response from all the participants in the Congress was very encouraging.
Anticoagulant management of COVID-19 patients with thrombotic complications
Arushi Garud, Anish Joshi, Neha Thomas (MSc), Atul Laddu (MD, PhD) and Jawed Fareed (PhD)
Biomarkers of Hemostatic Dysregulation
Shivam Gupta, Divya Honavar, Neha Thomas (MSc), Atul Laddu (MD, PhD) and Jawed Fareed (PhD)
Third Rajan Memorial Lecture/GTF Symposium 2023
January 08, 2023
Program Brochure
Per tradition, on January 8, 2023, GTF conducted a very successful Third Rajan Memorial Lecture/GTF Symposium 2023. The highlight was the masterly address by the Keynote Speaker of the program, Stephan Moll, MD, Professor of Hematology at the University of North Carolina, on “DVT and PE: making a diagnosis and creating a treatment plan”. Attached below is the brochure and the talks given by GTF scholars and the Faculty (Drs. Bulent Kantarcioglu, Margaret Callahan, Charles Carter, Jawed Fareed, Pedro Pablo Komlos, Stephan Moll, and Eduardo Ramacciotti).
What is DVT and PE?
Krish Raina and Avaneesh Jadhav
Pathophysiology of DVT
Ishaan Dhaneshwar and Shriya Sawant
Pathophysiology of PE
Richa Mahajan and Mala Niverthi
DVT and PE: Making a Diagnosis and Creating a Treatment Plan
Stephan Moll, MD
Role of Warfarin in Patient Management – 2023 and Beyond
Charles A. Carter, PharmD, MBA
Heparin vs DOAC’s in the Management of PE
Jawed Fareed PhD, DSc, FAHA
Antithrombotic Therapy in COVID-19
Bulent Kantarcioglu, MD
The Fourth anniversary event of the Promoting Awareness of Clotting Outcomes (PACO) Foundation was held virtually on November 19, 2022. Experts such as Alfonso Tafur, MD; Bulent Kantarcioglu, MD; Jawed Fareed, PhD; Jeanine Walenga, PhD; and Joseph Caprini, MD presided at the event.
October 14, 2022
Global Thrombosis Forum (GTF) has been an affiliate member of the IUA since 2021. Recently eight of the GTF High School Scholars (Ms. Anaya Rege, Mr. Arav Bongirwar, Ms. Isha Patkar, Ms. Malvika Sawant, Ms. Radhika Kulkarni, Ms. Roumika Patil, Ms. Sanika Ainchwar, and Ms. Shivangi Ranjan) were given the incredible honor of presenting their research work at the IUA World Congress held at Porto Alegre, Brazil from October 13-15, 2022. With immense help, cooperation, guidance and encouragement from Prof. Luigi Antignani, MD (President of IUA) and Prof. Pedro Pablo Komlos, MD (President-elect of IUA), this was the first time IUA had embarked on a project with presentations by high school students. Attendees at the Congress included MDs, PhDs, MS, medical students, nurses, and researchers from all over the world. The presentations by the GTF High School Scholars were moderated by renowned vascular surgeon Dr. Eduardo Ramacciotti, were appreciated by everyone, and helped in establishing very firmly the role of high school students in research activities.
July 30, 2022
The Global Thrombosis Forum and Loyola University, Chicago held the High School Scholar’s day on July 30th 2022. Since 2020, the GTF High School Scholar Summer Research program has been planned in a virtual format in which students and faculty contribute with several innovative approaches to carry out assigned projects in an effective manner. This year too the program involved periodic group sessions, individual faculty / student interactions and scheduled didactic presentations relevant to assigned biomedical research in an integrated fashion. The concept and implementation of the virtual program was supported by the Provost Dr. Margaret Callahan and Vice Provost, Dr. Meharvan Singh.
June 22, 2022
The fifth annual BRIDGE (Beginning Researchers Involved in Discovery through Guidance and Exploration) event was held virtually on June 22, 2022 where the GTF high school scholars presented their research to the Faculty through posters and powerpoint presentations.
January 9, 2022
In the process of giving the GTF students higher levels of training in research, communications and presentations, GTF has initiated a program for having a symposium on some special topics inviting GTF young members in their advanced career, along with some experts. The first of this series was a symposium on challenges for dentists with patients on anticoagulants. The next one was, “Anticoagulation in GI Tract: An update on GI disorders: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations”. Our next one was COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Effects, where the first Rajan Memorial Lecture with the keynote speaker was by Alfonso Tafur, MD, from the Northshore University Health System, who spoke on, “Addressing Thrombosis risk in patients with vascular malformations including CLOVES”, consistent with Rajan’s condition of Cloves Syndrome. Today, the theme of the symposium is Pulmonary Embolism in young children, with Samuel Goldhaber, MD, from Harvard Medical School and President of NATF, as the keynote speaker, consistent with Rajan who succumbed to PE at an early age of 23!
November 13, 2021
GTF young members made a presentation of their research work at the PACO 3rd anniversary event on Saturday, November 13, 2021.
Of special mention is the significant contribution from young mentors Aditya Sathe,a 3rd year medical student, and Ms. Priya Lokasundaram, a nursing student.
June 25, 2021, virtual meeting
For the past several years, the Global Thrombosis Forum (GTF, www.gtfonline.net) has been coaching young members of the community in conducting research at various institutions such as the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences under the leadership of Shaker Mousa, PhD, MBA, FACC, FACB, the Vice Provost of Research and Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute at ACPHS. The fourth annual BRIDGE (Beginning Researchers Involved in Discovery through Guidance and Exploration) event was held on June 25, 2021 where the GTF high school scholars presented their research to the Faculty through posters or powerpoints. In addition, the GTF Summer Interns also presented results from their research projects that were assigned to them by Dr. Mousa during the 5-week internships they had held with Dr. Mousa.
Cardiovascular Symposium 2021
January 10, 2021, virtual meeting
The Global Thrombosis Forum (formerly Georgia Thrombosis Forum) has continued to develop innovative approaches to further education and research programs worldwide. In the past seven years, consistent with the North American Thrombosis Forum’s objectives, training and educational initiatives, the Global Thrombosis Forum, under the leadership of Dr. Atul Laddu, has made a major impact in inspiring public sectors. In particular, GTF has been focusing on younger students to promote awareness of thrombosis and its management at various levels. Such programs have recruited talented young scholars who have participated in educational and translational research programs in an exemplary fashion. Under the strong leadership of Dr. Sam Goldhaber, President of the NATF and Dr. Atul Laddu, President and CEO of GTF, these projects will continue to expand and will provide opportunities for younger students which will be helpful in their career planning and education to become physicians and scientists to serve healthcare and biomedical research programs. The 2021 program is developed to include feature presentations by selected GTF scholars which will highlight thrombotic and cardiovascular diseases and their management by direct oral anticoagulants. The symposium faculty presentations will focus primarily on vascular diseases and their diagnostic and therapeutic management with reference to the observed complications in COVID-19.
The special program on this day was the Rajan Memorial Lecture. Rajan Laddu was a founding member of the GTF and in fact was instrumental in initiation of GTF. Rajan unfortunately succumbed to an attack of PE on October 8, 2020. In acknowledgment of the late Rajan Laddu’s contributions and input in the foundation of GTF, an annual Rajan Laddu Memorial lecture has been established. Rajan has left a legacy of courage and strong will which has inspired our younger members. He will be remembered forever. This year’s presentation was given by Dr. Alfonso Tafur of North Shore hospital, Chicago.
Second Annual PACO (Promoting Awareness of Clotting Outcomes) Foundation Symposium 2020
The Second Annual PACO Symposium was organized in a hybrid format, including virtual and live sessions, on October 17 and October 24, 2020. The events on October 17, 2020 included a presentation of 3 posters by the high school student-members of GTF. A competition was held for the poster presentations and the poster on COVID-19 and VTE won the first prize. The posters are presented here.
GTF Annual Symposium 2020
Anticoagulation in GI Tract: An update on GI disorders: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations
January 12, 2020, in Suwanee, GA
The program reflects the interest that the younger students have taken, as part of the GTF educational initiatives and the identification of a timely topic addressing the anticoagulation in the GI tract where newer advances are evident.
