HEMOPHILIA LITERATURE SEARCH

All searches were created by Ellen Crumley, MLIS, Clinical Librarian with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta in collaboration with Dr. Kent Stobart. For more information please contact Ellen directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

All searches were independently peer-reviewed by Neera Bhatnagar, MLIS and Karen Blackhall, MA in Information Management.

Karen Blackhall, Trials Search Co-ordinator, Cochrane Airways Group
I moved to London from the North East of England in 1989 and began working in the Medical Library at St.George’s Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London. Since then I have gained my Postgraduate Diploma in Information management (DipIM) and completed a Masters in Information Management (MA). In 1999 I began working for the Cochrane Airways Group where I have developed and continue to maintain the Specialised Register of trials in the area of Asthma, COPD Bronchiectasis and Sleep Apnoea. I also assist reviewers with their search for trials and advise them on strategy development.

Neera Bhatnagar is the Reference Librarian at McMaster University Health Sciences Library with fourteen years searching experience. She regularly conducts searches for systematic reviews, practice guidelines, patient care, education and research. She also supports researchers at McMaster who prepare practice guidelines for Cancer Care Ontario and the Canadian Medical Association.

Kent Stobart MD MSc FRCPC

Dr. Stobart is a pediatric hematologist at Stollery Children’s Hospital at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. He was awarded a Terry Fox Research Scholarship to complete a Master’s of Science in Epidemiology, with the Clinical Trials Group of the National Cancer Institute of Canada.

Dr Stobart has served as Secretary and on the Executive of the Association of Clinical Hemophilia Directors of Canada (AHCDC). He is a Chair of the Board of the Anemia Institute for Research and Education.

His research and medical education interests include evidence-based medicine for both the undergraduate and postgraduate medical school curriculum. He is completing a Cochrane systematic review. Dr. Stobart is a visiting lecturer to McMaster University for the annual Evidence-based Clinical Practice conference.