Jeffrey Mccullough

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey McCullough is an international leader in transfusion medicine research and practice and in clinical trials involving transfusions for treating diseases of the blood, bone marrow and bleeding conditions. In recent years he has focused his research on clinical trials involving transfusion medicine, and blood donation and blood banking practices in developing countries. Dr. McCullough has been Director of Blood Bank for 35 years, and he was a leader in blood bank support for solid organ and stem cell transplant patients. He established a major apheresis program as well as a leading stem cell processing laboratory in the U.S. He has been Director of Clinical Laboratories for about six years. He is founding President of the National Marrow Donor Program, which now has about 10 million donors and has facilitated about 60,000 transplants worldwide. Dr. McCullough has been Director and CEO of the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center in St. Paul for 20 years as well as Senior Vice President for Biomedical Affairs at ARC National Headquarters in Washington, DC, with responsibility for half the U.S. blood supply. He has been the recipient of Federal research grants (NIH, CDC) for many years and has published more than 300 research reports and an own book, Transfusion Medicine, currently in fourth edition. He has been an editor of Transfusion for 15 years. 

Research Interest

 Haematology