Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Bill is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He obtained his PhD from Rockefeller University in 2007 and his MD from Weill Cornell Medical School in 2009. He completed a Clinical Pathology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2012. He also completed several fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2014 including: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, Molecular Genetic Pathology, and Clinical Informatics.
He currently serves as the Director of the Tissue Typing Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The lab is the OPO testing lab for the northeast region and also acts as a reference lab for many transplant programs in the region. He also leads a group of programmers that develop their in-house Lab Information System to support these complex clinical testing workflows.
Bill is a co-founder of the Transfusion Medicine Question of the Day which has over 5,000 subscribers. He is a founder member of the Blood transfusion Genomics Consortium (BGC). His research involves the development of software and assays related to blood group and HLA antigens. These include the development of the official ISBT blood group database and the HLA Serotype Database. He also has created assays and automated interpretive software to determine blood groups from DNA arrays and next generation sequencing data.
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