Expert Qualifications
This highly qualified expert has spent over 50 years working in blood banking and transfusion medicine. He earned his M.D. from UCLA, where he also completed his internship. The expert finished his residency in medicine in the San Francisco area, at UC Hospitals and San Francisco General Hospital. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Blood Banking, and he is licensed in California and New York. The expert previously served as the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer at BloodSource, a multi-location blood bank in California, from 1983 until 2004. He was also a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and Georgetown University School of Medicine; he continues to teach at a university in California. The expert is a member of the American Association of Blood Banks and a Past President of the International Society of Blood Transfusion.
Bio Snapshot
- Location: CA
- B.A., Zoology, University of California at Riverside
- M.D., University of California at Los Angeles
- Internship, University of California at Los Angeles
- Residency, Medicine, UC Hospitals and San Francisco General Hospital
- Board Certified, Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Board Certified, Blood Banking, American Board of Pathology
- Member, American Association of Blood Banks
- Member, American Society of Hematology
- Member, American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
- Member & Past President, International Society of Blood Transfusion
- Co-Author, 267 Articles
- Former, Staff Associate for Clinical Pathology/Blood Bank in the Clinical Center, NIH
- Former, Assistant Chief of the Blood Bank Department in the Clinical Center, NIH
- Former, Chief of the Blood Services Section for the Blood Bank Department in the Clinical Center, NIH
- Former, Chief of the Blood Bank Department in the Clinical Center, NIH
- Former, Clinical Instructor/Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor in Medicine, George Washington University Medical School and Veterans Hospital
- Former, Faculty Member in the Section of Microbiology/Immunology, Graduate School at NIH
- Former, Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, in the School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Former, Medical Director & Chief Executive Officer, BloodSource
- Former, Scientific Director, Delta Blood Bank
- Former, Member of the Board of Directors, Immucor/Gamma
- Current, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pathology, a Medical School in the California University System
- Current, Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking Consultant, a Personal Consulting Business
- Current, Medical Director, a Blood Bank in California
