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Harry Büller

Harry Büller, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Department of Vascular Medicine
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Harry Büller, MD, is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the Academic Medicine Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and specializes in Vascular Medicine. Dr. Büller earned his MD and PhD at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating, he completed his research fellowship in hemostasis and thrombosis in the Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1981 and 1982. Dr. Büller has authored and co-authored more than 554 scientific articles on topics in his field. He has been Co-Chairman for the Amsterdam Institute for Cardiovascular Research and is Chairman of the Vascular Medicine Working Group.

In 2004, Dr. Büller was Chairman of the chapter chest antithrombotic therapy for venous thromboembolic disease of the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy. Since 2008, he has been an Honorary Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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