James Isbister
Professor
Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Professor Isbister did his undergraduate medical training commencing in the foundation year of the faculty of Medicine at the University of NSW in 1961. After completing a BSc(Med) honours in 1964 in Physiology when he graduated with the first undergraduates to qualify from the new medical school and graduated MB BS with honours in 1968. His postgraduate training in internal medicine was at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, completing membership of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1971 and being appointed to Fellowship in 1975. After initial training in Haematology at St Vincent’s Hospital with Professor Jim Biggs he worked in Papua New Guinea and subsequently at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London with many of the doyens of haematology, including Professor Sir John Dacie, Professors David Galton, Victor Hoffbrand, Danny Catovsky, John Goldman and others.
Research Interest
Transfusion Medicine Patient Blood Management Evidence Based Transfusion Medicine Perioperative Patient Blood Management Critical Haemorrhage and Massive Blood Transfusion Human Research Ethics
Publications
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Meybohm, P., Richards, T., Isbister, J., Hofmann, A., Shander, A., Goodnough, L., Munoz, M., Gombotz, H., Weber, C., Choorapoikayil, S., et al (2017). Patient Blood Management Bundles to Facilitate Implementation. Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 31(1), 62-71.
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McQuilten, Z., Zatta, A., Andrianopoulos, N., Aoki, N., Stevenson, L., Badami, K., Bird, R., Cole-Sinclair, M., Hurn, C., Isbister, J., et al (2017). Evaluation of clinical coding data to determine causes of critical bleeding in patients receiving massive transfusion: a bi-national, multicentre, cross-sectional study. Transfusion Medicine (Online), 27(2), 114-121.
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Ruseckaite, R., McQuilten, Z., Oldroyd, J., Richter, T., Cameron, P., Isbister, J., Wood, E. (2017). Descriptive characteristics and in-hospital mortality of critically bleeding patients requiring massive transfusion: results from the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry. Vox Sanguinis, 112(3), 240-248
