Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Pregnancy

APSF Stoelting Conference 2025 - "Transforming Maternal Care: Innovations and Collaborations to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality" View the full program at https://www.apsf.org/event/stoelting-... Help us continue the APSF's vital work to protect patients and ensure the safest possible anesthesia care. Donate at https://www.apsf.org/donate/ *** Session 2: Major Co-Morbidities Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Pregnancy Lisa Leffert, MD Lisa Leffert, MD is the Nicholas M Greene Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at Yale Medical School in New Haven, CT. She is a previous Past President of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) and long-time Division Chief of the Obstetric Anesthesia Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Leffert lectures nationally and internationally on diverse topics such as the anesthetic management of patients with neurologic disease and vulnerabilities, strategies for placing neuraxial anesthetics in patients with bleeding disorders. She has led an interdisciplinary effort to create a SOAP consensus statements on neuraxial anesthesia in the obstetric patient on thromboprophylaxis and higher dose anticoagulants and thrombocytopenia, worked collaboratively with ASRA on key guidelines, and currently leads the SOAP Research Network General Anesthesia Registry.