Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
Fellowship Director: Hlaing Tint, MD
Our one-year, ACGME-accredited Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, led by Dr. Hlaing Tint, MD, offers extensive training at Memorial Hermann Hospital-TMC (MHH-TMC), a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center. The hospital also features a Transplant Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, and a Children’s Hospital, providing exposure to a wide variety of cases and patient populations. Our dedicated transfusion medicine physicians actively participate in fellow education.
Rotations overview:
Fellows rotate through various services at institutions within the Texas Medical Center (TMC), including:
- Blood bank: Our reference lab, one of the largest in Southeast Texas, offers extensive experience in interpreting antibody panels, managing transfusion reactions, addressing compatibility 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: This consultative service provides direct patient care, including plasmapheresis, RBC exchanges, photopheresis, plateletpheresis, leukoreduction, and therapeutic phlebotomies.
- Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center: Fellows gain donor exposure in one of the largest community blood donation centers in the US, along with cellular therapy and immunohematology training.
- MD Anderson Cancer Center Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Lab: Fellows receive 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 through regular teaching sessions and conferences related to transfusion medicine.
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