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2 unusual facts about Hematology


Bloodless surgery

Jehovah's Witnesses reject blood transfusions on religious grounds; others may be concerned about bloodborne diseases, such as hepatitis and AIDS.

C Me Dance

At 17, fulfilling her dream, she discovers she has a rare blood disease.


American Society for Apheresis

ASFA represents a broad range of health care professionals involved in apheresis medicine including those practicing pathology, transplantation, hematology, oncology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, hepatology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and ophthamology.

Brian Monahan

Dr. Monahan is an experienced hematology and medical oncology (HMO) doctor and researcher, was a staff physician for the Office of Attending Physician in the early 1990s and maintained a supporting role with the office during countless National Special Security Events, State of the Union Addresses and Joint Sessions of Congress, and essential continuity of government initiatives.

Daniel Kraft

He completed the Harvard combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Children's Hospital, before returning to Stanford for clinical fellowship training in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation and a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Irving Weissman.

George Daley

George Q. Daley, professor of hematology and the director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s Hospital Boston

Georges Mathé

Dr. Brian Bolwell, chief of hematology at the Cleveland Clinic noted that Dr. Mathé had proved an important principle: "You can cure an incurable leukemia patient.", and had developed both a technique and an important term, "adoptive immunotherapy," to describe how a person’s own immune system can be used to combat cancer and other diseases.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

John Harland Bryant

Following a fellowship in biochemistry at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and a special research fellowship in biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Dr. Bryant took a fellowship in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Kurloff cells

Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy

Nancy Lee Harris

Their son Matthew Carmichael Harris, a venture capitalist, married filmmaker Jessica Glass whose father, Joseph Glass, was a hematologist and oncologist and the director of hematology at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Robert Heyssel

After serving with the United States Public Health Service in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan between 1956 and 1958, he returned to the United States as a fellow in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Robert Peter Gale

From 1973-1993, Gale was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology where he focused on the molecular biology, immunology and treatment of leukemia (with Martin Cline and David Golde).

William Holmes Crosby Jr.

During a visit by William Dameshek, then a leader in United States hemotology, Crosby so impressed Dameshek in his handling of hematologic patients that the latter contacted the then Surgeon General to request that Crosby be formally trained in hematology.


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