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Dr Charithani Keragala
Dr Charithani Keragala is a clinical and laboratory Haematologist who has worked at Monash Health since 2013. She is also an early career clinician-scientist who completed her PhD at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Monash University. She has been a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) since 2018. She is also an adjunct lecturer in Medicine at Monash Health, School of Clinical Sciences.
Dr Keragala’s PhD, explores the relationship between the fibrinolytic system and the innate immune response combining both basic science research and clinical trial data. She has co-authored several peer reviewed publications on the plasminogen activating system including a first author review paper in Blood in 2021. She has also presented her research at several national and international conferences as well as being invited to give a ‘State of the Art’ presentation at the International Society of Thrombosis & Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress 2024 in Bangkok. Dr. Keragala is a recipient of the 2023 Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award for her work on Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and associated changes in fibrinolysis. She was also awarded runner up for best presentation at the national Blood conference in 2018 and the prestigious John Lloyd Travel Grant by the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand (THANZ). Dr. Keragala is an Associate editor of ‘Thrombosis Journal’; the flagship journal of the Asia-Pacific Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. She is also the Vice President of THANZ and helped organise the successful ‘Blood’ Haematology conference held in Melbourne in 2023. She is also on the council of the International Society of Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP). As a young female early career clinician-researcher and mother of three, Dr. Keragala is passionate about women in STEM and offers mentorship to students and trainees through the Monash University Alumni mentoring program and is a member of the Gender Equity in Medicine Reference Group for the RACP.