Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship

Applications for the academic year 2018-2019 are currently being accepted for this fellowship.

The Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine fellowship is an ACGME-Accredited Program administered by the New York Blood Center. Fellows rotate through New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell for six months of their training. Applicants must be board eligible in clinical pathology, pediatric hematology or adult hematology.

The one-year core program consists of the following formal rotations:

• Blood services, collections, regulatory affairs
• Immunohematology and Genomics Laboratory
• Hospital transfusion services
• Clinical services, therapeutic apheresis, perioperative autologous transfusion, stem cell collection
• Coagulation
• HLA Laboratory 
• Cord blood public bank
• Cellular therapy laboratory
• Research

A two-year research track is available for selected candidates interested in pursuing an academic career in transfusion medicine.

Requirements: Candidates must possess an unrestricted active license to practice medicine in New York State and must be board eligible/certified per American Board of Pathology for the blood banking/transfusion medicine boards at the completion of the fellowship program.

Stipends: Commensurate with postgraduate training level.

For More Information Contact:

Bruce S. Sachais, MD,PhD, Program Director
Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
New York Blood Center
310 East 67th Street
New York, NY 10065
Tel: 212-570-3175
E-mail:bsachais@nybloodcenter.org

education@nybloodcenter.org

www.nybloodcenter.org

Access N.Y.B.C.