Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine: Basic Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Hillyer MD, Christopher D.; Silberstein MD, Leslie E.; Anderson, Kenneth N.; Ness MD, Paul M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044306542X ISBN 13: 9780443065422

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2002

Synopsis

This new reference integrates up-to-date scientific information with the latest clinical techniques to offer readers today's most practical approach to blood banking and transfusion medicine. Its comprehensive coverage includes advances in the use of blood products, new methods of disease treatment, and full discussions of stem cell transplantation. A consistent framework makes the discussions of molecular genetics, scientific mechanisms, and clinical situations easy to find and apply.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher D. Hillyer, MD, is President and CEO of New York Blood Center and Professor, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. Previously, he was the tenured, endowed Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and served as director of the Emory Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies with responsibility for all aspects of clinical and academic transfusion medicine at Emory’s seven principle hospitals. Dr. Hillyer is an editor of twelve textbooks in transfusion medicine, author of over 160 articles pertaining to transfusion, human immunodeficiency virus, and herpes viruses, most notably cytomegalovirus. Nationally recognized as an expert in hematology and blood transfusion, Dr. Hillyer is also a past-president, board of directors of AABB and a former trustee of the National Blood Foundation. Dr. Hillyer has been awarded many million dollars in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies. He was an associate editor of Transfusion and serves on several other editorial boards. Dr. Hillyer was formally recognized for his work in Africa as part of the AABB/Emory cooperative agreement from the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and is a recipient of two Tiffany Awards from the American Red Cross where he also served as a medical director and a member of their national Medical Advisory Board. He also received the 2014 Emily Cooley Award from AABB for his “significant commitment and contributions to the field of transfusion medicine through extensive teaching, mentoring and professional leadership, and the countless clinical, scientific and innovative resource materials he has created to educate others . He is a co-founder of Transfusion & Transplantation Technologies, Inc (3Ti) and holds over 20 patents or patents pending. Dr. Hillyer is board certified in transfusion medicine, hematology, medical oncology and internal medicine. He received his BS from Trinity College, and his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, with postgraduate training and fellowships in hematology-oncology, transfusion medicine and bone marrow transplantation at Tufts-New England Medical Center.

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 044306542X
• ISBN 13: 9780443065422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640