Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine/Director of Cellular Therapy Center
Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Zbigniew (Ziggy) M. Szczepiorkowski, MD, PhD, FCAP, is currently professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as section chief of laboratory medicine, medical director of the Transfusion Medicine Service, director of the Center for Transfusion Medicine Research, and director of the Cellular Therapy Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, N.H, USA.. He also is a member of Dartmouth Cancer Center (NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center) and a consultant in pathology services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA; as well as a consultant in Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Szczepiorkowski has served in many leadership capacities with organizations and professional societies. He presently serves as vicechair (chair-elect) and member of the Board of Directors of ICCBBA and chairs FDA Blood Product Advisory Committee.
He has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications; over 30 book chapters; and edited 4 books in the fields of laboratory medicine, cellular therapy, apheresis and transfusion medicine. He serves as section editor of (Cellular Therapy and Reviews) "Vox Sanguinis”; associate editor of the "Journal of Clinical Apheresis" and associate editor of “Plasmatology”.
His current research includes studies of the use of blood components, the clinical use of apheresis and cellular therapy products.
A graduate of the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, Szczepiorkowski was an intern in Mokotowski Hospital in Warsaw, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He obtained his doctorate in medicine at the Medical Center for Postgraduate Education in Warsaw. He was a resident and chief resident in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as a Grove-Rasmussen transfusion medicine fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Specialty Areas: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine; Cellular Therapy; Therapeutic Apheresis; Transfusion Practice
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Disclosure(s): Cellphire: Research Study (Ongoing); Fresenius Kabi: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Hemanext: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)