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Program Description
Mayo Clinic's one-year accredited Transfusion Medicine
(i.e. blood banking) Fellowship offers extensive clinical and laboratory
experience.
The Transfusion Medicine Division at Mayo Clinic in Rochester supports
liver, renal, heart, pancreas, lung and bone marrow transplantation,
as well as stem cell collection, high-risk neonatal and obstetrical
programs and cardiovascular surgery.
This training program encompasses the full range of blood center
and transfusion medicine activities, which include:
- Donor recruitment and donation
- Compatibility testing
- Advanced red cell serology
- Component production
- Progenitor cell and cellular therapy laboratory
- Therapeutic and donor apheresis
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
- Pediatric stem cell collection
- Transfusion-transmitted virus
- Histocompatability laboratories
Experience in nucleic acid testing and regional blood banking is
also offered.
This fellowship program prepares you for a career in a major academic
center, community or hospital blood bank or as a research investigator
in transfusion medicine.
Certification
After you successfully complete Mayo Clinic's Transfusion Medicine
Fellowship Program, you will meet the Blood Banking and Transfusion
Medicine certification requirements of the American Board of Pathology.
You are expected to pass the subspecialty board examination in
blood banking and transfusion medicine at the end of your fellowship.
Program History
The Transfusion Medicine Fellowship began in 1973 and since
that time, 35 trainees have completed their fellowship training
in this program. It is anticipated that one or two fellows will
complete the program each year.
For a partial list of past fellows please see below:
| Start Date |
End Date |
Transfusion Medicine Fellow |
| July 1, 2006 |
June 29, 2007 |
Hilmi Ege, M.D. |
| July 1, 2006 |
June 29, 2007 |
Camille van Buskirk, M.D. |
| July 5, 2005 |
July 10, 2007 |
Elie Richa, M.D. |
| June 26, 2004 |
July 2, 2005 |
Rajini Katipamula, M.D. |
| June 28, 2003 |
June 26, 2004 |
No fellow during this year |
| June 29, 2002 |
June 27, 2003 |
Walter J. Linz, M.D. MBA |
| June 30, 2001 |
June 25, 2002 |
Padmaja S. Helekar, M.D. |
| July 1, 2000 |
June 29, 2001 |
Elsie Soo Man Lee, M.D. |
| June 26, 1999 |
June 30, 2000 |
Magali Fontaine, M.D., Ph.D. |
| June 27, 1998 |
June 25, 1999 |
Jeffrey L. Winters, M.D. |
| June 28, 1997 |
July 31, 1998 |
Lemuel D. Gorden, M.D. |
| June 28, 1997 |
June 26, 1998 |
Kenneth E. Nollet, M.D., Ph.D. |
| June 29, 1996 |
June 27, 1997 |
Essam El-Harazy, M.D. |
| July 1, 1995 |
June 28, 1996 |
Michael L. Bruin, M.D. |
| June 25, 1994 |
June 30, 1995 |
Maria Nunez, M.D. |
| June 26, 1993 |
June 24, 1994 |
Lucyna Boyle, M.D. |
| June 27, 1992 |
June 24, 1994 |
Eleftherios Vamvakas, M.D. |
| June 27, 1992 |
June 25, 1993 |
Debora Kim, M.D. |
| June 29, 1991 |
June 26, 1992 |
Bruce E. Kloster, M.D. |
| June 30, 1990 |
May 29, 1992 |
Priscilla Figueroa, M.D. |
| July 1, 1989 |
June 29, 1990 |
Antonio Sergio Torloni, M.D. |
| July 2, 1988 |
June 29, 1990 |
Paula J. Santrach, M.D. |
| June 27, 1987 |
October 1, 1988 |
Mark E. Brecher, M.D. |
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