Paul N. Ness

Biography

Dr. Ness received his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His postgraduate work includes a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, fellowship training in hematology-oncology at the University of California San Francisco, and a transfusion medicine fellowship at Irwin Memorial Blood Bank in San Francisco. From 1972-1974, Dr. Ness was a staff associate in the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been a member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Board of Directors for many years and became President in 1999. He served on the editorial boards of Transfusion and AABB Press and became editor of Transfusion in July, 2003. Dr. Ness has written over 200 articles for medical journals and has reviewed manuscripts for many journals. He is a co-editor of two comprehensive texts in transfusion medicine, "Scientific Basis of Transfusion Medicine" and "Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, Basic Principles and Practice." Dr. Ness also has extensive experience in transfusion-related research with emphasis on transfusion-related complications. He served as a PI for the Johns Hopkins site of the Transfusion Medicine Hemostasis Clinical Trial Network, funded by NHLBI. Dr. Ness is the co-PI for a project funded by the NHLBI REDS III program to study donor virus epidemiology and blood utilization issues in China. 

Research Interest

 Haematology