Dr Sue Pavord

Dr Sue Pavord, MB ChB, FRCP, FRCPath. Dr Sue Pavord is a Consultant Haematologist at Oxford University Hospitals and Associate Senior Lecturer in Medicine at St Edmund Hall. She specialises in all aspects of Medical Haematology, with over 25 years of consultant-level experience. She founded the Oxford Iron Clinic and is currently focusing all her private medical time on treating individuals with iron deficiency, given the impact it has on people's lives and how common it is in the general population. This involves assessing and treating iron deficiency in individuals of all ages, including those with heart failure, cancer, pregnancy or before surgery. She led the national guidelines on the management of iron deficiency in pregnancy. She also recently published a book entitled Iron in Clinical Practice For the NHS, she founded the Iron Deficiency Management Service, which is run by Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT and practices in a community setting. She and colleagues pioneered Obstetric Haematology as a specialism, bringing together obstetricians, haematologists and anaesthetists in close collaboration, to improve the wellbeing and safety of women in pregnancy. She is joint editor of The Obstetric Haematology Manual (Pavord Hunt), the leading textbook in the field. She is also author of several national and international guidelines relating to the management of haematological problems in pregnancy. She is committed to education in this area and runs a well-established annual international course. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and Royal College of Physicians.

Anaemia and iron management, immunohaematology, obstetric haematology, haemostasis, thrombosis and anticoagulation. Founder and Lead Physician of the Oxford Iron Clinic https://www.oxford-iron-health-service.co.uk/