Biography

J. Evan Sadler earned his MD and PhD in Biochemistry and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Duke University. He was a Hematology Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, and did postdoctoral research with Earl Davie. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, where he has studied the pathophysiology of hemorrhagic and thrombotic diseases including von Willebrand disease and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. For 25 years he was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has received the William Dameshek Prize of the American Society of Hematology, and Distinguished Career Award and Investigator Recognition Award of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Dr. Sadler is currently Chief of the Division of Hematology, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.

He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. During 2011, he was the President of the American Society of Hematology.