Position Description:
A one-year ACGME accredited blood banking and transfusion medicine fellowship provides
a broad range of experiences in a large medical center setting. Institutional services
include a regional trauma center and extensive tertiary care in pediatrics, medicine,
surgery, and obstetrics/gynecology. Fellowship experience will include donor room,
therapeutic apheresis, photopheresis, cytopheresis, pre-transfusion testing, transfusion
medicine consultation, reference service antibody problems, HLA testing, frozen red
cell inventory, autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant program, autologous/allogenic
bone marrow transplantation, and blood center operations. Teaching assignments, along
with a research project, are a central part of the program. Candidates should gain
the skills necessary to function as medical directors of hospital blood banks or as
directors of community-based blood centers.
Location:
Augusta, second largest city in Georgia, is located on the south bank of the Savannah
River midway between the Great Smokey Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. It is a growing
and thriving city with a metropolitan- area population of around 500,000, and recently
ranked the second most favorable place to live in Georgia. The city has an active
cultural life including symphony and ballet organizations, a choral society, and theatre
groups as well as excellent outdoor activities. Nearby Clarks Hill Lake has 1,000
miles of shoreline for recreation; and the Atlantic Coast and the Great Smokey Mountains
are three hours away by automobile. Augusta is also world- renowned as the home of
the Masters Golf Tournament.
Requirements:
Applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in AP/CP or CP.
Stipends:
Salary will be commensurate with applicant's level of training.
Applications:
The Standardized Application for Pathology Fellowships from the College of American Pathologists
Curriculum Vitae
USMLE/COMLEX Scores
Recommendation LEtters (minimum of 3 and one of which must be from your Residency
Program Director)
ECFMG Certification (if applicable)
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Fellowship Application
Program Director:
Roni Bollag, MD, PhD
Professor, Section of Clinical Pathology
Program Contact Information:
Quintanna Samuels
Augusta University
Pathology, 1120 15th Street, BF-103B
Augusta, GA 30912-3600
Phone: (706) 721-5118
Fax: (706) 721-2358
E-mail: qsamuels@augusta.edu
