Blood Bank/Transfusion
Medicine Fellowship Program
The Penn State Milton S.
Hershey Medical Center is a 504-bed adult and pediatric tertiary care hospital
that is the main teaching hospital of the Penn State College of Medicine. It
includes a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit,
and is a major referral center for complicated adult and pediatric
hematology/oncology cases. Hershey Medical Center has 45 ACGME-accredited
residency and fellowship programs and over 490 residents/fellows. The Division
of Clinical Pathology has undergone significant growth in the past 10 years and
has abundant clinical opportunities for training a fellow in Blood
Banking/Transfusion Medicine. The Blood Bank/Transfusion Service of the Hershey
Medical Center is a full service operation with allogeneic and autologous whole
blood and hematopoietic stem cell collections, plateletpheresis collection,
therapeutic phlebotomy, and therapeutic apheresis. Annually, over 20,000 units
of allogeneic red blood cells (approximately 50,000 total blood components) are
transfused, and approximately 1200 therapeutic apheresis procedures are
performed (including plasma exchange, red cell exchange, cytoreduction, and
peripheral blood stem cell collections). The fellow will work closely with the
Medical Director and four other clinical pathologists (two of the five are
board-certified in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine) to provide clinical
consultation to the medical staff in areas of apheresis, immunohematology, and
clinical transfusion medicine. Additional training in coagulation,
hematopoietic stem cell processing, and histocompatibility (HLA) are also part
of the program. In addition, infectious disease testing for blood donors is
performed in-house, including NAT testing (HIV, HCV, and WNV). The Blood
Bank/Transfusion Service is accredited by FACT and the AABB, and the fellowship
is accredited by the ACGME. The fellow will also have opportunities for
teaching medical students, technologists, residents, and fellows from other
services. Over the years the Clinical Pathology training program at Penn State
Hershey Medical Center has placed a number of our residents into prestigious
Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine fellowships around the country. We are pleased
to be able to now offer our own training program. In summary, this program will
provide the fellow with a rich and rewarding educational experience leading to
enhanced expertise in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine that can form a basis
for a career in the academic or community practice settings.
Application
Process
This is a fully-funded one
year ACGME-accredited position that includes training in all aspects of clinical
adult and pediatric transfusion medicine, immunohematology, on-site donor
administration and blood collection, therapeutic apheresis, allogeneic and
autologous hematopoietic stem cell collection and processing, on-site donor
infectious disease and NAT testing, coagulation, and HLA/Histocompatibility.
Applicants should be board-certified or board-eligible in combined
Clinical/Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology only, Hematology (Pediatric or
Internal Medicine), or Anesthesiology. Applications are evaluated
on an on-going basis and will be accepted beginning 12-18 months prior to the
anticipated start date.
Applications should include a
cover letter with a personal statement, curriculum vitae, a letter from
current/most recent program director, and the names of three additional
individuals who could provide letters of reference. Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.
Applications should be sent to:
Ronald E. Domen, M.D.
Program Director, Blood
Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
Department of Pathology
– M.C. H160
Penn State M.S. Hershey Medical
Center
P.O. Box 850, 500 University
Drive
Hershey, PA 17033-0850
Email:
rdomen@hmc.psu.edu
www.hmc.psu.edu/pathology
Milton S. Hershey Medical
Center of The Pennsylvania State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer; Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply
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