Dr Craig Kessler is Professor of Medicine and Pathology and attending physician in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, USA. He also
serves as the Director of the Division of Coagulation in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and is the Director of the Therapeutic and Cellular Apheresis Unit. Dr. Kessler earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He remained in New Orleans to complete his internal medicine residency and Chief Residency before moving to Baltimore, Maryland, to assume a Fellowship in Special Hematology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
His first faculty position was in the Division of Clinical Pathology and Special Coagulation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and subsequently, he joined the Hematology-
Oncology faculty at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. in 1981 where he became tenured Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Adult Component of the Washington Area Comprehensive Center for Hemophilia and Thrombosis Care, and Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology. In 1997 he joined the faculty at Georgetown University Medical Center as Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and maintained leadership of the Hemophilia and Thrombosis programs and was Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology until 2008. He is now the Director of the Division of Coagulation in the Department of Clinical Pathology and is the Director of the Cellular and Therapeutic Apheresis Unit. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Kenneth Brinkhous Award in hemophilia research and the National Hemophilia Foundation Physician of the Year award; he has been repeatedly listed in The Best Doctors in America (from 1996 to present).
Dr Kessler belongs to a number of professional societies, including the American Society of Hematology, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, the World Federation of Hemophilia, and the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society of North America (HTRS). He sits on several medical and scientific advisory boards. He is also the immediate past-Editor of the journal Haemophilia and serves as a reviewer for numerous other journals, including Blood, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, the American Journal of Hematology,
and the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Dr Kessler is a prolific author, and has over 250 peer reviewed published articles, and multiple books and book chapters in the field of bleeding disorders and their treatment. He has been elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians and is immediate past Chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council for the National
Hemophilia Foundation. He serves on the Madical and Scientific Advisory Council for the Platelet Disorders Support Association.