Veronica Heather Flood, MD 

Hematology/Oncology

Title(s): Assistant professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Medical degree, Tufts University School of Medicine, 1999; residency, Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1999-2002; fellowship, Oregon Health & Science University, 2002-2005.

Certification: Board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hermatology/Oncology.

Honors: Outstanding Research by a Pediatric Fellow Award, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Portland, Ore., 2005; Chief Pediatric Fellow, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Portland, Ore., 2004-2005; National Institutes of Health Individual Fellowship (National Research Service Award), 2004-2006; National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Researchers, 2004-present.

Research interests: Von Willebrand disease, hemophilia, thrombosis and coagulation disorders.

Representative publications:

• Flood VH, Johnson FL, Boshkov LK, Thomas GA, Bakke AC, Nugent DJ, Nicholson HS, Tilford D, Brown MP, Godder KT. Sustained Engraftment Post Bone Marrow Transplant Despite Anti-Platelet Antibodies in Glanzmann Thrombasthenia. Pediatric Blood Cancer 45(7):971-975, 2005.
• Flood VH, Al-Mondhiry HA, Bakke AC, Farrell DH. Fibrinogen Hershey IV: A Novel Dysfibrinogen with ayV4III Mutation in the Integrin aIIbB3 Binding Site. Blood 106 (11):2133, 2005.
• Flood VH, Al-Mondhiry HA, Farrell DH. The Fibrinogen AaR16C Mutation Results in Fibrinolytic Resistance. British Journal of Haematology 134(2):220-226, 2006.
• Flood VH, Nagaswami C, Chernysh IN, Al-Mondhiry HA, Weisel JW, Farrell DH. Effects of Impaired Fibrinopeptide A Cleavage on Fibrin Clot Structure: Studies with an AaR16C Dysfibrinogen. Blood 108(11):1617, 2006. 

Current grants:

• Implications of Von Willebrand Factor-Factor VIII Interactions, Children's Research Institute. Principal investigator.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 937-6896. Fax: (414) 937-3804. E-mail: vflood@mcw.edu.