Sara Bakhtary, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Laboratory Medicine
Division
Transfusion Medicine
Specialty Areas
Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking
UCSF
Laboratory Medicine, Box 4025
1825 4th Street, Room M2316
San Francisco, CA 94158-2350
United States
Hospital Affiliations
UCSF Parnassus Heights
UCSF Mission Bay
UCSF Mount Zion
UCSF Benioff Children Hospital Oakland
Research and Clinical Interests
Pediatric and neonatal transfusion, blood utilization and optimization, transfusion medicine education, quality improvement and patient safety, patient blood management, global transfusion medicine, diversity-related patient care issues in transfusion medicine.
Selected Publications
- Manuel SP, Roberts JP, Bakhtary S. Preoperative autologous blood collection in adult living liver donors: Are we wasting donor blood and increasing exposure to risk? Transplantation. 2019 Feb; 103(2):387-391. PMID: 29944618.
- Ipe TS, Goel R, Howes L, Bakhtary S. The impact of COVID-19 on academic productivity by female physicians and researchers in transfusion medicine. Transfusion. 2021 Feb 01. PMID: 33527397.
- Racial/ethnic disparities among women receiving intrauterine transfusions for alloimmunization at a single fetal treatment center. Transfusion. 2021 07; 61(7):2019-2024. Schwab ME, Schmidt CN, Gonzalez-Velez JM, Bakhtary S. PMID: 33745158.
- Survey of intrauterine red blood cell (RBC) transfusion practices in the United States. Transfusion. 2022 Dec; 62(12):2449-2453. Bakhtary S, Panchalee T, Crowe EP, Schwab ME, Zakieh A, Josephson CD, Sobhani NC, Gonzalez-Velez JM, Goel R. PMID: 36193867.
- Red Blood Cell Transfusion: 2023 AABB International Guidelines. JAMA. 2023 11 21; 330(19):1892-1902. Carson JL, Stanworth SJ, Guyatt G, Valentine S, Dennis J, Bakhtary S, Cohn CS, Dubon A, Grossman BJ, Gupta GK, Hess AS, Jacobson JL, Kaplan LJ, Lin Y, Metcalf RA, Murphy CH, Pavenski K, Prochaska MT, Raval JS, Salazar E, Saifee NH, Tobian AAR, So-Osman C, Waters J, Wood EM, Zantek ND, Pagano MB. PMID: 37824153.
- Differentiating patient characteristics between platelet refractory patients with and without antibodies to human leukocyte antigens. Transfusion. 2024 02; 64(2):210-215. Liu K, Stephens L, Nedelcu E, Bakhtary S. PMID: 38168737.