LEADERSHIP
ISTH 2025 Congress Leaders:
Chair:
Guy Young
M.D.
Guy Young, M.D., is the Director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles as well as a Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Young is a past chair of the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Factor VIII, Factor IX and Rare Bleeding Disorders.
Vice Chair:
Walter Ageno
M.D.
Walter Ageno is Professor of Medicine at the University of Insubria and Director of the Short-Stay Medical Unit and Thrombosis Center at the Ospedale di Circolo of Varese, Italy. Ageno previously served as Chair of the ISTH Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) from 2016-18 and also recently served as a World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee member.
ISTH 2025 Annual Congress Planning Committee:
2025 Chair
Guy Young, M.D. | Los Angeles, U.S.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
2025 Vice Chair
Walter Ageno, M.D. | Varese, Italy
University of Insubria
2025 Clinical Chair
Riitta Lassila, M.D., Ph.D. | Helsinki, Finland
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2025 Basic Chair
Alisa Wolberg, Ph.D. | Chapel Hill, U.S.
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2025 Vice Clinical Chair
Cihan Ay, M.D. | Vienna, Austria
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2025 Vice Basic Chair
Françoise Dignat-George, Pharm.D. | Marseille, France
Educational Committee Member
Geoffrey Barnes, M.D. | Ann Arbor, U.S.
Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) Liaison
Joost Meijers, Ph.D. | Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Early Career Committee Member
Aaron Iding, M.D. | Maastricht, the Netherlands
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