Ashok Nambiar, MD
Research and Clinical Interests
Diagnostic immunohematology and clinical aspects of blood donation and transfusion therapy. Research interests include platelet alloimmunization and newer algorithms for determination of donor-compatibility, TRALI, and systems approach to transfusion safety.
Selected Publications
- Ashok Nambiar, Rene J. Duquesnoy, Sharon Adams, Yingdong Zhao, Jaime Oblitas, Susan Leitman, David Stroncek and Francesco Marincola. HLAMatchmaker-driven analysis of responses to HLA-Typed platelet transfusions in alloimmunized thrombocytopenic patients. Blood. 2006 Feb 15; 107 (4): 1680-7
Selected Awards
- 2003 Service Award, Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH
- 2004 AABB Baxter Transfusion Medicine Fellow Scholarship Award
- 2006 Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Dept of Laboratory Medicine
- Assistant Professor; Medical Director, Blood Bank and Donor Center
- Laboratory Medicine
- Blood Bank
Specialty Area
- Blood Banking/ Transfusion Medicine
Contact Information
- ashok.nambiar@
clinlab.ucsfmedctr.org - Phone: 415-353-1311
- Pager: 415- 443-8418
- Fax: 415-353-1706
- 505 Parnassus Avenue, M-501, Box 0100
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0100
Hospital Affiliation(s)
- UCSF Medical Center