Join us for this informative webinar tailored for people living with rare bleeding disorders, their families, caregivers, and the broader community. Bleeding Disorders and Ageing: Shall I Bleed Less with Age? brings together clinical expertise and lived experience to explore ageing with bleeding disorders.
Speakers: Prof Yesim Dargaud (Hôpital cardiologique Louis-Pradel de Lyon, France), Prof Sophie Susen (CHU de Lille, France) and Dr William McKeown (EHC Steering Committee, Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
There will also be time for live interaction and audience Q&A.
This webinar is the third one organised by the EHC in the Ageing Well with Rare Bleeding Disorders webinar series in partnership with ERN-EuroBloodNet (you can register for the whole series HERE).
This webinar series is part of the broader Living Well, Ageing Well, the EHC Ageing Project 2025–2026, which brings together experts, patients, and caregivers to explore topics like mobility, mental health, nutrition, comorbidity management, and more.
About the speakers
Yesim Dargaud
Yesim Dargaud is a professor of haematology at the University of Lyon. She is the head of the Clinical Haemostasis Unit in Lyon University Hospitals and the coordinator of the French reference centre for haemophilia. She is currently an active member of the French Society of Haematology, European Association of Haemophilia and Associated Disorders, American Society of Hematology, and International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Dr Dargaud’s research interests include haemophilia, other inherited bleeding disorders and in particular haemophilia with inhibitors. She is the author of more than 100 publications in the field of haemostasis, and she serves as a reviewer for several haematology journals. Dr Dargaud is a frequent lecturer at haematology congresses around the globe.
Sophie Susen
Sophie Susen is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Haematology at Lille University Hospital, Lille, France, where she also heads the Department of Haemostasis and Transfusion. Her research is conducted at Inserm – French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. She leads a research team focusing on the role of von Willebrand Factor and blood flow using a variety of experimental approaches. She is also the national coordinator of the Reference Centre for von Willebrand Disease and the national coordinator of the French network of treatment centres for rare bleeding disorders.
William McKeown
William McKeown is a doctor who practices as a consultant geriatrician and stroke physician at Antrim Area Hospital. He is also a patient with severe haemophilia and serves on the steering committees of the European Haemophilia Consortium and EUHASS. He leads undergraduate geriatric medicine teaching at Queen’s University Belfast. He previously completed a fellowship with the British Geriatric Society and was a recipient of the BIASP Warlow Prize. Given his personal and professional background, he has a particular interest in research on successful ageing for people with bleeding disorders.
