Bruce Ritchie, MD, FRCPC
Bruce Ritchie is a Professor of Medicine and Hematology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where he is active in both clinical and basic research. His clinical interests include bleeding disorders, thrombotic disorders, primary immunodeficiency, hereditary angioedema, hemoglobinopathies, porphyria, iron metabolism and blood-borne pathogens. He developed specialty clinics in Edmonton to provide comprehensive care, including home treatment with blood products, to these groups. He is intimately involved in surveillance of the blood system in Canada; he chaired the committee overseeing the Canadian Hemophilia Assessment and Resource Management Information System (CHARMS), a national program to track blood-clotting products used in patients' homes. He is the Principal Investigator of the Blood Borne Pathogens Project and has built a large biobank for translational research. He runs dozens of clinical research projects in addition to the Blood Borne Pathogens Surveillance project, including regulatory trials for the pharmaceutical industry, and investigator-initiated trials. His basic research laboratory works on tissue archiving, cryopreservation, natural mutation characterization, the use of inkjet printers to print biomaterials and cells and the development of technical fixes to increase throughput in the biobank. He served on the Governance oversight committee of the BC BioLibrary and is the main driver behind the Canadian Biosample Repository in Edmonton, Alberta, which provides efficient and robust biosample processing, management, storage, and retrieval infrastructure.