Department and faculty

Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) is one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world. It is composed of 3,000 people working in 58 specialty laboratories performing more than 20 million tests a year.

A highly skilled team of medical professionals, including physicians, scientists, medical technologists, medical technicians, lab assistants, biologists, chemists, microbiologists, geneticists and other specialists work collaboratively. The department receives specimens for testing from Mayo Clinic and Mayo Health System and is a reference laboratory for other clinics and hospitals both nationally and internationally.

Our Division of Transfusion Medicine is responsible for the collection and testing of blood transfused to patients at Mayo Clinic (traditional "blood banking"), including Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital. Our team also collects and processes hematopoietic stem cells for blood and bone marrow transplantation, as well as the testing necessary for organ transplantation.

Transfusion medicine specialists, each with different interests and specialty areas, take an active part in your training.

Facilities and practice volume

The Division of Transfusion Medicine collects more than 40,000 units of blood from 17,000 local donors.

The Therapeutic Apheresis Treatment Unit at the Mayo Clinic is one of the oldest in the United States, starting operation in January of 1974. We perform therapeutic apheresis procedures to treat patients with neurologic, renal and blood diseases. Approximately 3,000 therapeutic apheresis procedures are performed each year, including approximately 1,000 peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell collections and 1,500 plasma exchanges.

More than 75,000 products are administered. Transfusion medicine performs approximately 60,000 red cell compatibility tests and 71,000 ABO/Rh blood typings annually.

The laboratories of the Division of Transfusion Medicine are accredited by the AABB, the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI).

Partial list of past fellows

Start Date	End Date	Transfusion Medicine Fellow
June 26, 2010	July 1, 2011	Elizabeth Jaben, M.D.
July 1, 2010	June 30, 2011	Sudhanshu Mulay, MBBS
June 24, 2009	June 25, 2010	No fellow during this year
June 28, 2008	June 26, 2009	Eapen Jacob, M.D.
June 30, 2007	June 27, 2008	Mary Kay Vaske, M.D.
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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