Dr. William Aird

William C. Aird, MD, FRCP, FACP, is a hematologist and vascular biologist specializing in classical hematology and internal medicine. He serves as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a practicing physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His clinical work focuses on nonmalignant blood disorders and iron metabolism, platelet and coagulation disorders, and thrombosis and hemostasis. His research interests center on endothelial biology and phenotypic heterogeneity, comparative and evolutionary vascular biology, and the vascular and coagulation response to systemic inflammation and critical illness. Dr. Aird is the founder and executive director of The Blood Project, senior deputy editor at DynaMed, and former chief of the Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine and former director of the Center for Vascular Biology Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has been recognized with the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and has led major NIH- and AHA-supported research programs. Dr. Aird earned his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. He completed internal medicine residency and chief medical residency at St. Michael's Hospital and Toronto General Hospital through the University of Toronto, followed by a clinical fellowship in hematology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He also completed postdoctoral training in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.