Transfusion Medicine Fellowship

The fellowship is a one year, primarily clinical experience, centered at Yale-New Haven Hospital including a two month rotation at the American Red Cross Connecticut Region in Farmington.

Yale-New Haven:
The fellow will be involved in all aspects of the Blood Bank and Pheresis services. The primary task in the Blood Bank is clinical management of difficult cases, including data collection, patient interaction, coordination and consultation with medical and technical staff. Examples include: transfusion reactions, special product requests, and clinical coordination of unexpected-antibody workups. In addition, small clinical or applied "bench" research projects will be available. The primary task in Pheresis is evaluation of new requests for pheresis services and management of ongoing patients, both inpatients and outpatients. We are currently expanding our peripheral blood stem cell collection program which complements our ongoing autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation program. We are also initiating a stem cell purging and positive selection program. The fellow will also be involved in clinical conference presentations, teaching of residents and other intellectual aspects of the department. The fellow will be on-call evenings to provide Blood Bank/Pheresis backup for the on-call Laboratory Medicine resident. It is expected that the fellow will work closely with the attending staff in the Blood Bank to coordinate clinical decision-making, and to provide a primary means for learning by the fellow.

ARC:
The ARC is located in Farmington, about a 40 minute drive from YNHH. The goal of this segment is to provide a complete "donor services" experience. The fellow will learn about all aspects of blood product collection (including apheresis), testing, processing and distribution. In addition, the fellow will be exposed to other "reference lab" services the ARC performs, such as HLA testing, platelet crossmatching, HLA antibody screening, etc.

Salary and benefits:
Salary is commensurate with the year of postgraduate training. The standard Yale University benefits package applies.

Second year:
A second year of research with a member of the Laboratory Medicine Department is potentially available if funding can be arranged.

Scheduling:
The arrangement of the ARC and YNHH portions of the fellowship is flexible and can be arranged to best suit the needs of individual fellows.

Research interests:
Edward Snyder, MD, Director, Blood Bank (YNHH): Platelet storage lesion, generation of cytokines in stored blood products, and leukocyte-filtered blood products.

Mark Shlomchik, MD, PhD, Assistant Director, Blood Bank (YNHH): Regulation of self-reactive B cells in normal and autoimmune mice, generation of B cell memory, stem cell purging and selection.

Gary Stack, MD, PhD, Assistant Director, Blood Bank (YNHH): The role of cytokines in mediating transfusion reactions.

Diane Krause, MD, PhD, Assistant Director, Blood Bank (YNHH)

Applications:

Must be completed by September 1, however early completion is encouraged. Letter and curriculum vitae should be sent to:

Transfusion Fellowship Director
Blood Bank, Yale New Haven Hospital
20 York Street
New Haven, CT
06504

Email: TransfusionFellowship