Education

Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship

This one-year ACGME-accredited Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship offers extensive clinical and laboratory experience in a busy state-of-the-art medical center in the heart of Chicago.  This fellowship specializes in laboratory coagulation training.

The fellowship and UCM Blood Bank are housed in a large, modern facility within a state-of-the-art hospital on the University campus.  The Blood Bank supports adult and pediatric hospitals which provide busy solid organ and stem cell transplantation as well as cell therapy programs, level 1 trauma, high risk neonatal and obstetrical programs, and complex cardiovascular surgery.  The UCM Blood Bank issues over 55,000 components per year.

The UCM Blood Donation Center provides ample experience with blood collection in a hospital-based facility. 

The stand-alone UCM Coagulation Laboratory provides routine and esoteric testing for bleeding and clotting disorders, with abundant opportunity for test interpretation and consultative reports.

Clinical experiences include immunohematology, transfusion service management, investigation of transfusion reactions, blood donor recruitment, blood donation and processing, therapeutic apheresis and pediatric peripheral blood stem cell collection (over 700 apheresis procedures per year), coagulation, and histocompatibility testing.  Additional experience at an immunohematology reference lab is also provided.

Ample opportunities for research and teaching are provided. Trainees who complete this one-year program are eligible to sit for Transfusion Medicine boards (American Board of Pathology).

Fellowship Director

Geoffrey Wool, MD PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology

Fellowship Faculty

Fatima Aldarweesh, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

Rahaf Alkhateb, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

Timothy Carll, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

The position is open to physicians with current licensure trained in CP, AP/CP, or other appropriate postgraduate medical training. The candidate must be able to obtain an Illinois medical license.

Commensurate with the applicant’s PGY level of training.

Submit an application form, including all materials detailed on the form, to the Fellowship Coordinator Christine Roman  (christine.roman@bsd.uchicago.edu) and the Fellowship Director Dr. Geoffrey Wool (Geoffrey.Wool@uchospitals.edu).

  • 2023-2024: Filled
  • 2024-2025: Open
  • 2025-2026: Filled
  • 2026-2027: Open
Fellows Fellowship Years Additional Training Post-Training Position
Lisandro Fortuny 2022-2023   Vitalant
Timothy Carll, MD 2020-2021  

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Nisar Amin, MD

2019-2020   Pleasant Valley Hospital, WV
Scott Allen, MD 2018-2019

Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Hematopathology Fellowship

Private practice, CA

Yijun Zhu, MD 2016-2017

 

 
Juliana Alvarez Argote, MD 2015-2016

Medical College of Wisconsin
Hematology/Oncology Fellowship

Assistant Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin

Geoffrey Wool, MD PhD 2014-2015  

Associate Professor
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Farzaneh Sayedian, MD 2013-2014  

Roche

Anne Das, MD 2012-2013  

Private practice
Cincinnati, OH

Marsha Apushkin, MD 2011-2012

2012-2013
University of Chicago
Head and Neck Pathology Fellowship

Assistant Professor

Loyola University Chicago

Saptarshi Mandal, MD 2010-2011  

Assistant Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur
Rajasthan, India

Jason Chiang, MD 2009-2010  

Nassau University Medical Center

NorthShore-LIJ Health System

James Westra, MD 2008-2009  

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, OH

Mona Papari, MD 2007-2008  

Vitalant

ShouJin Wu, MD 2006-2007  

Faculty

University of Illinois-Chicago

Ila Bansal, MD 2005-2006  

Quest

Marisa Galicia, MD 2003-2005  

Lecturer

Rosalind Franklin University

Erzhen Zhen, MD 2002-2003  

 

Muhammad Isa, MD 2001-2002  

Hematology/Oncology
John Peter Smith Center for Cancer Care
Fort Worth, TX

Kiyoko Oshima, MD PhD 2000-2001  

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD

Tipsuda Junsanto Bahri, MD 1999-2000  

Assistant Professor
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
New York, NY

Rachel Flamholz, MD 1998-1999  

Neogenomics

Marisa Saint Martin, MD 1997-1998  

Memorial Healthcare

Jacksonville, FL