Andra H. James, MD - Co-director Comprehensive Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Assistant Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Dr. Andra H. James is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University Medical Center.  She a Co-Director of Duke’s Comprehensive Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center and founder of the Women’s Hemostasis and Thrombosis Clinic at Duke. Her practice, research and publications pertain to reproductive issues among women with bleeding and clotting disorders.

Besides her work at Duke, she is involved both nationally and internationally in activities to improve healthcare for women who have disorders of bleeding and clotting.  She is currently Chair of the Women’s Task Force of the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) and serves on NHF’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MASAC).  She is also Chair of the Women’s Issues Scientific Subcommittee of the International Society on Haemostasis and Thrombosis.  She recently served on the U.S National Institute of Health (NIH) National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s Women with Bleeding Disorders Working Group and their Von Willebrand Disease Expert Panel and presented on the needs of special populations at the Surgeon General’s Workshop on Deep Vein Thrombosis.