Christopher Kabrhel MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician, Director of the Center for Vascular Emergencies at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the MGH Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine. He has more than 20 years of experience and has published more than 150 papers on the epidemiology, diagnosis, risk-stratification and treatment of acute venous thromboembolism. Dr. Kabrhel's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, as well as private foundations and industry. He coordinates venous thromboembolism research for the Nurses’ Health Study and co-founded the International Network for Venous Thromboembolism research (INVENT) to study the genetic epidemiology of VTE. Dr. Kabrhel is one of the creators of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team model, founder of the MGH PERT and the PERT™ Consortium, for which he serves on the Board of Directors.