Fellowship
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
The Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a fully funded one-year, ACGME-accredited position that admits one fellow per year.
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The one-year Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship provides training in clinical adult and pediatric transfusion medicine, immunohematology, blood collection, therapeutic apheresis, allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic stem cell collection and processing, coagulation and HLA/histocompatibility.
The fellow will gain valuable experience handling day-to-day issues in immunohematology, inpatient and outpatient therapeutic apheresis and cellular therapy and various consultations, including but not limited to hemolytic disease of the fetus/newborn, transfusion-associated platelet refractoriness, and hemolytic anemias. Additionally, the fellow will be exposed to donor center operations and learn to handle market withdrawals and lookbacks.
Program Overview
The program is highly active in academic teaching, offering trainees formal and informal teaching opportunities with pathology residents, adult and pediatric hematology/oncology fellows, nephrology fellows, rotating residents from non-pathology programs, medical students and trainees in Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s Medical Laboratory Science Program. Research opportunities abound, and fellows are required to oversee a quality improvement or research project during the academic year.
Learn More about the Fellowship
To apply, submit the information listed here via email to esmith31@pennstatehealth.psu.edu. A complete application will include:
CAP Standardized Pathology Fellowship Application (found under "Fellowship Resources" at this link)
Cover letter with personal statement
Curriculum vitae
Copy of USMLE test scores (or equivalent)
Letter of recommendation and verification of training from current/most recent program director
Two to three additional letters of recommendation
Letters of recommendation may be emailed directly by the references.
Application requirements
MD, DO or foreign equivalent with ECFMG certification
Board-certified or eligible in anatomic and/or clinical pathology from the ABP, or a primary certificate plus a subspecialty certificate in hematology from another member medical specialty board of the ABMS
Eligible for Pennsylvania medical license
U.S. citizen, green card holder or J-1 visa holder
Contact and Leaderhips
Associate Dean for Continuing Education, Penn State College of Medicine
Program Coordinator, Pathology Residency, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, Hematopathology Fellowship and Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Supporting Your Training
Fellow Honors and Recognitions
The annual Resident/Fellow Research Day is held each year (with exception of during the COVID-19 pandemic) on and around the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center campus.
The intent of the event is to provide an opportunity for residents and fellows to showcase their research accomplishments to their peers in other clinical departments, as well as their colleagues in the basic sciences.
Learn more about Resident/Fellow Research Day here.
Previous presentations from the Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship are listed here.
