Description
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
This one-year, ACGME accredited program is designed to provide extensive training in all aspects of blood banking/transfusion medicine including management of tertiary/quaternary hospital-based transfusion services, reviewing all transfusion-related clinical and technical problems, such as serological test interpretation, blood component selection, transfusion reaction diagnosis, and coagulation test interpretation, covering inpatient and outpatient apheresis service, medical oversight of collection and processing of stem cells and blood components.
The fellow will rotate in three sites, including the University of Kansas Health System (TUKH), Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) and Community Blood Center (CBC). TUKH, the major rotation site, transfuses over 30,000 units of blood products, carries out almost 100,000 serological tests and performs over 2,500 apheresis treatments and stem cell collections every year. As a comprehensive pediatric hospital, CMH transfuses more than 9,000 units, performs over 32,000 tests and 250 apheresis procedures annually. Affiliated with New York Blood Center, CBC provides more than 180,000 units of blood products to nearly 60 area hospitals and almost 1,000 apheresis treatments every year, as well as donor testing activities in an FDA licensed cGMP testing environment.
If you have specific questions or need more information about the fellowship program, please reach out to the Fellowship Coordinator Hannah Messer pathologyresidents@kumc.edu.
Requirements
Applicants must be Board certified or eligible in Internal Medicine, Hematology, Clinical and/or Anatomic Pathology or Anesthesiology in the U.S. or Canada and must have or be eligible for an unrestricted license to practice medicine in Kansas and Missouri.
Applications for the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 academic years are currently being accepted. Applications must consist of the following:
- Completed Standardized Application for Pathology Fellowships (Word)
- Current CV
- Personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation (addressed to Dr. Zhan Ye, M.D., PhD)
- USMLE or COMLEX Transcript of Scores
Send completed applications to:
Hannah Messer, Fellowship Coordinator
University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
3901 Rainbow Blvd., MS 3045 Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone: 913.945.7063
Fax: 913.588.7073
Email: pathologyresidents@kumc.edu
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Virtual Open House
Pathology Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
The Open House will be led by Dr. Zhan Ye, Program Director and other Faculty.
Monday, November 17, 2025
6-7 p.m. CT
A Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Registration closes Friday, November 14, 2025.
