Willian Nichols passed away unexpectedly in early September, 2022. Bill was a special and valuable resource - a clinician with a keen interest and enthusiasm for laboratory haemostasis. He was a founding member of NASCOLA, and also of this EQATH group, and had been heavily involved since EQATH was first established in 2005. Bill had spent much time recently preparing EQATH for incorporation to establish the organisation on a more formal footing. His expertise, support and humour will be keenly missed from the executive committee, and indeed from the whole of the EQATH group.
Dr. William L. Nichols is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota Ð with Faculty appointments in Hematology/Internal Medicine and Hematopathology/Laboratory Medicine (Special Coagulation Laboratory). Dr. Nichols obtained his MD from the University of Kansas, and completed residency programs at Mayo Clinic in internal medicine and in hematology. Following hemostasis and platelet research training and fellowships at Mayo Clinic (with Drs. E.J. Walter Bowie and Kenneth G. Mann) and at the University of Paris (Professor Jacques B. Caen), Dr. Nichols has been on the Mayo Faculty since 1977. Dr. Nichols has special interests and expertise in von Willebrand disease, and platelet and bleeding disorders, and lupus anticoagulant, and in coagulation diagnostic testing. He was a founding member of NASCOLA (North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association) in 1997 and of EQATH in 2005.