Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship ​

Hlaing Tint, MD

Fellowship Director: Hlaing Tint, MD

Our transfusion medicine fellowship is a one-year long, ACGME-accredited program.  Dr. Hlaing Tint, MD leads the program and our transfusion medicine physicians are actively involved in fellow education.  The primary fellowship training site is Memorial Hermann Hospital-TMC (MHH-TMC), a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center which also houses a Transplant Center, Heart and Vascular Institute and a Children’s hospital, offering exposure to a wide variety of cases and patient populations.  ​

Rotations overview:

Fellows rotate through a variety of services at various institutions within the TMC, including:

  • Blood bank: Our reference lab is one of the largest in Southeast Texas. This rotation provides extensive experience in interpreting antibody panels, working up transfusion reactions, compatibility/incompatibility issues, and monitoring component usage.
  • Hemotherapy: An innovative clinical consultative service for the Heart and Vascular Institute. Fellows serve as interventional blood banking consultants as part of a multidisciplinary team to care for patients with complex bleeding and coagulopathy issues.
  • Therapeutic apheresis: A consultative service providing direct patient care including plasmapheresis, RBC exchanges, photopheresis, plateletpheresis, leukoreduction, and therapeutic phlebotomies.
  • Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center: Provides donor exposure in one of the largest community blood donation centers in the US as well as cellular therapy and immunohematology training.       
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Lab: Provides education on anti-HLA antibody testing, C1q-fixing HLA antibody assay, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) typing, platelet refractory panel and cytokine panel Luminex analysis.

Example Fellow Schedule:

Our academic year is divided into 13 four-week long blocks:

  • Five and a half blocks of Blood bank/Apheresis​
  • Five and a half blocks of Hemotherapy​
  • One block of HLA​
  • Half a block at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center​
  • Half a block of Coagulation

Fellows take an average of one week of blood bank/apheresis call per block (13 weeks during training)

Faculty:

Our transfusion medicine faculty are dedicated to fellow education with regular teaching sessions and conferences related to transfusion medicine.​

Current faculty members include:​

​Apply:

  • Applicants must have completed an ACGME accredited residency and/or fellowship. We welcome candidates from a variety of disciplines including: pathology, hematology/oncology, anesthesia, pediatrics, and internal medicine.​
  • Interested candidates  may send their CV and 3 letter of recommendation to Fellowship Coordinator, Ms. Amy Macias