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Harvard Medical School Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine

Fellowship · Boston, MA

Sponsored by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Director Kerry O'Brien

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Class size
1
PGY-4 salary
$89k2026 to 2027
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Getting in

How it chooses

  • Completed applications are due by August 31 of the year before training starts.

Who started, by class

Started 20251 on record · 1 published before starting
  • Cristiana PinedaBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center9 papers · 3 first author

Training

3 training sites. Most graduates on record went on to pediatric pathology.

Months at each site

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center10 mo
  • Boston Children's Hospital1 mo
  • American Red Cross Blood Services, New England Region1 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Pediatric Pathology Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia1
  • Loyola University Medical Center1

Research

100% of current fellows have a paper since 2023

1 of 1, 8 papers between them

  • Blood transfusion and management
  • Blood groups and transfusion
  • Complement system in diseases
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms

People

Leadership

  • Kerry O'BrienProgram Director

Find someone

Faculty, fellows, graduates and the people fellows publish with.

More programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

ProgramPositions
ProgramPositions
  • CytopathologyPositions: 2
  • HematopathologyPositions: 3
  • Medical MicrobiologyPositions: 1
  • NeuropathologyPositions: 1
  • Pathology-Anatomic and ClinicalPositions: 32
  • Selective PathologyPositions: 2
  • Selective PathologyPositions: 4

Place

Summers reach 82°, winters fall to 24°. About 45 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

1.5M people live within 20 minutes of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $2,690 a month within 10 miles of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Hazards

  • Lightning
  • Heat waves
  • River flooding
  • Cold waves