Ira A. Shulman

  • Professor of Pathology and Director of USC Transfusion Medicine Services Group, Keck School of Medicine of USC
  • Director of Laboratories and Pathology, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Office: (323) 409-5266

Expertise Summary

Expert on transfusion medicine, blood banks, and infections transmitted via blood transfusion

Expertise

  • transfusion medicine
  • infections transmitted via transfusion
  • blood banking
  • immune cytopenias
  • anatomic and clinical pathology

Languages

  • Hebrew

Additional Information

  • Co-Author: Problem Solving in Immunohematology, 4th ed. (1992); The Increasing Burden of Phlebotomy in the Development of Anemia and Need for Blood Transfusion Among Trauma Patients (2010); Detection of Bacterial Contamination in Prestorage Culture-Negative Apheresis Platelets on Day of Issue with the Pan Genera Detection Test (2011); The Impact of the Duration of Platelet Storage in Critically Ill Trauma Patients (2011); Pretransfusion Testing Practices in North America, 2005 to 2010 (2011-2012); “Pretransfusion Testing,” Technical Manual, 17th ed. (2011); Collected Questions and Answers 10th ed. (2011); Getting Started in Blood Management (2011)
  • Co-Editor: Technical Manual of the American Association of Blood Banks, 12th ed. (1995-96); Technical Manual of the American Association of Blood Banks, 16th and 17th eds.
  • Editor and Moderator, e-Network Forum (educational program for distance learning and networking in transfusion medicine)
  • Past Chair, Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee, College of American
    Pathologists
  • Past President, California Blood Bank Society
  • Member: American Association of Blood Banks; College of American Pathologists; Society for the Advancement of Blood Management