The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine is accepting applications for an ACGME-accredited one-year fellowship in blood banking/transfusion medicine. The goals of the fellowship are education in blood bank, apheresis and cellular therapy with opportunities to explore coagulation, hematology, laboratory management and new and emerging technologies within the field of transfusion medicine. Centralized in a large academic center surrounded by five hospitals, there are numerous experiences including teaching, research and interdisciplinary collaboration available.
IU Health's Department of Transfusion Medicine oversees and works with the three blood banks located within the IU School fo Medicine academic health center (IU Health University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and Riley Children’s Hospital) where approximately 50,000 blood component units are transfused every year. There are additional educational opportunities at the separate blood banks of Eskenazi Health Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and the Richard L. Roudebush Indianapolis Veterans’ Administration Medical Center. Our fellows have the opportunity to see interesting blood bank cases from our academic health center, the state-wide IU Health network, and the Immunohematology Reference Laboratory at the downtown Versiti Blood Center of Indiana.
Our fellows work with our team of faculty, physician assistants and nurses to provide coverage to our eight-bed outpatient Apheresis Clinic located within University Hospital with 24/7 inpatient coverage for acute care within the academic health center where our rapidly growing department performed over 2,700 procedures in 2022. Approximately 250 of these procedures were hematopoietic stem cell collections that were processed by our cellular therapy laboratory located across the hall from our apheresis clinic.
Additional training in coagulation is available from a laboratory perspective at our world class dedicated core pathology laboratory located along the Indianapolis central canal and from the clinical perspective at the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, one of the nation’s largest hemophilia treatment centers and home to experts in hemophilia and other complex hematologic disorders. Our fellows have the opportunity to be trained in a variety of transfusion medicine areas including collection and processing, advanced immunohematology, apheresis and more.
There is additional training as desired in regulatory activities, administration, leadership and research. We prepare our graduates to be successful in a multitude of practice settings including academic institutions, community hospitals or transfusion medicine research.
Sample Schedule
| Sample Fellowship Schedule | ||||
| July | Apheresis | January | Apheresis | |
| August | Apheresis | February | Apheresis | |
| September | Blood Bank | March | IHTC Elective | |
| October | Blood Bank | April | HLA / Cell Therapy | |
| November | Research | May | Donor Center / IRL | |
| December | Coagulation | June | Blood Bank | |
