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Associate Professor Sanjeev D Chunilal

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Associate Professor Sanjeev D Chunilal

Associate Professor Sanjeev Chunilal is Director of Laboratory Haematology at Monash Health and has a major focus on the diagnosis and management of disorders of haemostasis and thrombosis. He has contributed to Australasian Guidelines for treatment of venous thrombosis in pregnant and non-pregnant patients, reversal of warfarin based anticoagulation and led the Monash Pathology diagnostic testing for the recent Vaccine associated thrombosis initiative during the COVID-19 vaccination programme. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and is an active member of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia New Zealand (THANZ) and its clinical trials group.

Top 5 publications

Merriman E, Chunilal S, Brighton T, Chen V, McRae S, Ockelford P, Curnow J, Tran H, Chong B, Smith M, Royle G, Crowther H, Slocombe A, Tran H.Two Weeks of Low Molecular Weight Heparin for Isolated Symptomatic Distal Vein Thrombosis (TWISTER study).Thromb Res. 2021 Sep 11; 207:33-39

Pasricha SR, Gilbertson M, Indran T, Bennett A, van Dam M, Coughlin E, Dev A, Chunilal S, Opat S. Safety of rapid injection of undiluted ferric carboxymaltose to patients with iron-deficiency anaemia: a Phase II single-arm study. Intern Med J. 2021 Aug; 51(8):1304-1311.

Yuen HLA, Zhao J, Tran H, Chunilal S. Development of a risk score to predict peripherally inserted central catheter thrombosis in active cancer.. Intern Med J. 2021 Oct 6. doi: 10.1111/imj.1555

McQuilten ZK, Venkatesh B, Jha V, Roberts J, Morpeth SC, Totterdell JA et al Anticoagulation Strategies in Non-Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. NEJM Evid. 2023 Feb;2(2):

Tran HA, Gibbs H, Merriman E, Curnow JL, Young L, Bennett A, Tan CW, Chunilal SD, Ward CM, Baker R, Nandurkar H. New guidelines from the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism.

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