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Dr. Rita Selby is a consultant hematologist specializing in thrombosis and hemostasis, and the medical director at two regional reference coagulation laboratories at both Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University Health Network. She is the director of the Sunnybrook Anticoagulant Management Clinic.

She is an associate professor in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, and department of medicine at the University of Toronto. She has a masters in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and her academic interests include coagulation laboratory quality assurance, appropriate utilization of laboratory testing and pragmatic clinical trials in anticoagulation and thromboembolism in trauma.

She is the editor/author of the popular coagulation handbook, Bloody easy: Coagulation Simplified used for coagulation education across Canada (download at: www.transfusionontario.org). She has developed and taught the mandatory coagulation laboratory curriculum for the University of Toronto Hematology and Hematopathology residency program trainees since 2009.