Nurse Consultant Thrombosis
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Mr Huw Rowswell Consultant Practitioner Thrombosis, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Huw trained in London at St Marys Paddington and initially worked in respiratory medicine before moving to critical care, he relocated to Plymouth helping set up the acute care team in there. He joined the Plymouth thrombosis team in 2009 when it became an VTE exemplar centre.
He became a nurse consultant in 2016 with responsibility for investigating hospital acquired VTE giving real time feedback to clinicians, looking at hospital acquired VTE by speciality and runs a clinic looking at the need for long term anticoagulation post thrombotic event. He completed his MSc with a dissertation on VTE in cardiac surgery comparing emergency with elective patients and has published many articles on VTE outcome data. He is the UK representative for the “All China nursing VTE alliance” and was appointed the hospital VTE lead and chair of the thrombosis committee in 2020.
He is part of the nursing committee for the ISTH as well as a trustee for the British Society for Haematology and the vice-chair for the clinical leaders of thrombosis.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM