Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
Fellowship Director: Hlaing Tint, MD
Our one-year long transfusion medicine fellowship is ACGME-accredited. Dr. Hlaing Tint, MD, leads the program and our transfusion medicine physicians are actively involved in fellow education. The primary fellowship training 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. We welcome candidates who have completed ACGME accredited residency and/or fellowships from a variety of disciplines including: pathology, hematology/oncology, anesthesia, pediatrics, critical care, and internal medicine.
Rotations Overview
Fellows will rotate through a variety of services at various institutions within the TMC including:
Our reference lab is one of the largest in Southeast Texas. This rotation provides extensive experience in interpreting antibody panels, working up transfusion reactions, investigating blood compatibility/incompatibility issues, and monitoring component usage.
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.
A consultative service providing direct patient care including plasmapheresis, RBC exchanges, photopheresis, plateletpheresis, leukoreduction, and therapeutic phlebotomies.
Provides donor exposure in one of the largest community blood donation centers in the US as well as cellular therapy and immunohematology training.
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.
Transfusion service providing blood products for a large bone marrow and stem cell transplant service. Fellow will expose to hemovigilance unit, which monitor in real time every transfusion given to patients.
Provide stem cell transplantation for the treatment of solid tumors, hemoglobinopathies and non-malignant disease (e.g., autoimmune disease). Fellow will expose to cellular therapies, including CAR-T and CAR-NK cells for hematologic cancers and solid tumors.
Example Fellow Schedule:
- Five and a half blocks of Blood bank/Apheresis.
- Four blocks of Hemotherapy.
- One block of HLA.
- Half a block at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center.
- Half a block of Coagulation.
- Half a block of Cellular Therapy
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 didactic sessions, and serology boards.
Current faculty members include:
- Dr. Yu Bai, MD, PhD
- Dr. Nnaemeka Ibeh, MD
- Dr. Mohammed Rigi, MD
- Dr. Amanda Herrmann, MD, PhD
- Dr. Paul Allison, MD
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.
- Candidates interested in the Transfusion Medicine Fellowship may send their CV and 3 letters of recommendation to Fellowship Coordinator, Ms. Amy Macias