management of venous thromboembolism" published in 2012. On behalf of Thrombosis UK, she was also a member of the committee producing the NICE Quality standards on VTE prevention. Charity Hunt is co-founder and medical director of Thrombosis UK which campaigns to raise awareness of thrombosis—in particular the risk of hospital-acquired deep vein thrombosis by mandating risk assessment. Prof. Hunt was a founding member of the World Thrombosis Day steering committee, which is the global awareness campaign of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) that is recognized on October 13 each year and raises awareness of thrombosis. Honours and awards She was winner in the Diagnostic/Laboratory category winner at the NHS London Innovation awards 2009 for “Detection of antiphospholipid antibodies based in heparin resistance.”, and won the 2011 Research paper of the year at the Briths Medical Journal Group for a paper titled "Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial" which was published in The Lancet (2010;376:23–32). Hunt was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to medicine. References External links GSTS Lifeblood, the Thrombosis Charity CRASH-2 Trial WOMAN Study Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People educated at Walthamstow Hall Alumni of the University of Liverpool Academics of King's College London Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists British haematologists Officers of the Order of the British Empire