Dr. Benjamin Brenner is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel). He is a former Director of the Institute of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation and Chair of Division of Internal Medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel.  Prof. Brenner is Director of the Hematology Research Center and Academic Adviser at Rambam. His research interests over the years have included venous thrombosis, cancer-related thrombosis, inherited bleeding disorders and their management, mechanisms of thrombosis and clinical studies of new anticoagulants and hemostatic agents. His major focus of interest is women's health issues associated with thrombosis, especially in regard to pregnancy complications in patients with inherited thrombophilias and placental hemostasis. Prof. Brenner has been co-chair of two subcommittees of the SSC, namely, Women's Health Issues in Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Perinatal and Pediatric Thrombosis. He is a member of the Steering Committee of RIETE. Prof. Brenner is an Associate Editor of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis.  He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as chapters and books that he has initiated and edited, with a focus on women's health issues, cancer, antithrombotic therapy, and pregnancy.