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Blood Banking Transfusion Medicine Fellowship

Baystate Medical Center's Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program is a comprehensive 1-year ACGME-accredited training program providing physicians with a broad range of clinical and consultative experiences in blood banking/transfusion medicine and apheresis medicine in the setting of a large academic community hospital.

Hospital-Based Donor Center Training in Our State-of-the-Art Blood Bank & Donor Center

  • An active clinical consultative service addressing routine/complex immunoserologic evaluations, suspected transfusion reaction investigations, component therapy issues and centralized transfusion medicine service problems prepare you for a future role as a hospital based transfusion medicine hemotherapy consultant. 

  • The latest technology for immunoserologic investigations and component preparation

  • Clinical oversight responsibilities on the Apheresis Medicine Service (Western New England’s only such resource) provides an opportunity to care for and treat patients with rare and unusual immunologic and non-immunologic disorders. 

  • Onsite and mobile allogeneic blood donor collection facilities featuring automated donor apheresis platforms for platelet and red blood cell collections and a peri-operative autologous blood program

  • Leadership opportunities in biovigilance and quality improvement projects (including Tissue Medicine aspects)

Research and Teaching Opportunities are Available

Contact Information

Program Director
Chester Andrzejewski, Jr.


Education Coordinator
Gretchen Lussier
Phone: 413.794.5085
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