Meera B Chitlur MD

Summary

• Meera Chitlur is the Professor of Pediatrics at Central Michigan University and Barnhart-Lusher Hemostasis Research Endowed Chair at Wayne State University. She is the Director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center and the Jeanne M. Lusher Special Coagulation laboratory at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr.Chitlur is the PI of a multicenter study evaluating the safety of high intensity sports in Hemophilia A patients on Emicizumab vs FVIII replacement (STeP study), Co-PI of the Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia arm of ATHN Transcends, and the Site PI/co-investigator on several clinical trials in bleeding and thrombosis. She is a Board member of the Foundation for Women and girls with Blood Disorders and has served on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MASAC) of the NBDF and the Blood and Blood Products Committee at the FDA. She is actively involved in both patient and provider education through FWGBD and NBDF and has authored or co-authored 88 publications and 10 book chapters. Her clinical interests are in improving care for girls/persons with the propensity to menstruate and all patients with bleeding disorders and her research interests are in global hemostasis assays and their utility in the diagnosis and management of bleeding and thrombotic disorders.