Position Description :
A one-year ACGME accredited blood banking and transfusion medicine fellowship provides
a broad range of experiences in a large medical center setting. Institutional services
include a regional trauma center and extensive tertiary care in pediatrics, medicine,
surgery, and obstetrics/gynecology. Fellowship experience will include donor room,
therapeutic apheresis, photopheresis, cytopheresis, pre-transfusion testing, transfusion
medicine consultation, reference service antibody problems, HLA testing, frozen red
cell inventory, autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant program, autologous/allogenic
bone marrow transplantation, and blood center operations. Teaching assignments, along
with a research project, are a central part of the program. Candidates should gain
the skills necessary to function as medical directors of hospital blood banks or as
directors of community-based blood centers.
Location :
Augusta is the metropolitan center of more than 500,000 area population. The city
has an active cultural life including symphony and ballet organizations, a choral
society, and theater groups. Nearby, Thurmond Lake has 1,600 miles of shoreline for
recreation; the Atlantic Coast and the Great Smokey Mountains are three hours away
by automobile. The yearly Masters Golf Tournament is a special attraction. The area
offers a variety of recreational opportunities and a modest cost of living.
Requirements :
Applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in AP/CP or CP.
Stipends :
Commensurate with applicant's level of training.
Program Director :
Roni Bollag, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Section of Clinical Pathology
Program Contact Information :
Allegra Blair
Augusta University
Pathology, 1120 15th Street, BF-103B
Augusta, GA 30912-3600
Phone: (706) 721-5118
Fax: (706) 721-2358
E-mail: ablair@augusta.edu
