Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 15:00
Australia backs AstraZeneca virus vaccine
Australian authorities have thrown their support behind the AstraZeneca vaccine despite a handful of new allergic reactions and increasing global trepidation.
Ross Baker
Founding Chair / Perth Blood Institute
Professor Ross Baker is a practising consultant haematologist and clinical researcher.
He is a principal investigator of over 125 large international phase II and III clinical trials and has contributed to a change of practice in haematology through clinical research in venous thrombosis, leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, thrombocytopenia, Von Willebrand disease and haemophilia.
Prof Baker has also authored over 127 papers in peer reviewed medical journals with high impact factor, and has been invited regularly as a speaker at international and national medical meetings.
He is a founding director and secretary of the Australasian Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ASTH now THANZ), founding chair of the Perth Blood Institute, and scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation on DVT in 2001.
