CATHERINE ANN MAZZEI, M.D.
Medical Director
American Red Cross
Northern California Blood Services Region
6230 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Medical Director
American Red Cross
Northern California Blood Services Region
August 2013 – Present
Associate Medical Director
BloodSource
Mather, CA
October, 2004 – August 2013
Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California
2012 – 2013
Vice President, Medical Affairs
Blood Bank of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties
San Bernardino, CA
January 2003 - July 2004
Medical Director
The Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas
Austin, Texas
September 1998 – December 2002
EDUCATION: University of California, Los Angeles/Los Angeles Red Cross
Los Angeles, CA
Transfusion Medicine Fellow, July 1997-98
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Transfusion Medicine Fellow, July 1996-97
Surgical Pathology Fellow, January – June 1996
Pathology Resident, December 1991-95
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH
M.D., December 13, 1991
LICENSURE: California License G78127
Expires: 12/31/17
CERTIFICATION: Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, July 1998
Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, June 1997
ACADEMIC HONORS and AWARDS:
Nathan B. Friedman, MD Research Prize, June 6, 1997.
Los Angeles Society of Pathologists, Honorable Mention, Annual Residents Research Symposium, June 3, 1997.
Young Investigators’ Award for the Fifth International Congress of the World Apheresis Association, March 11, 1994.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
California Blood Bank Society Member, current
Chair, Quality and Safety Committee
Chair, Membership Committee
Clinical Laboratory Scientists Committee
AABB Member, current
BCC Medical Technical Advisory Committee, 2003 – 04, 2013-Present
Texas Medical Association Blood and Tissue Usage Committee.
Chair 2001-02
Texas Society of Pathologists, Chair, Young Pathologists Section, 2002
College of American Pathologists
Delegate to the House of Delegates, Texas, 2001-02
Platelet Transfusion Task Force
Member, Residents, Young Physicians and General Membership Committee, 1998-99
Residents Forum Chair, 1997-98
PRESENTATIONS:
California Blood Bank Society Annual Meeting InterSol Workshop, Impact of Platelet Additive Solution, April 6, 2016
California Blood Bank Society Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar, Making Platelet Transfusion Safer, October 10, 2015
California Blood Bank Society Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar, Use of Platelet Additive Solutions (PAS), November 8, 2014
Risks of Transfusion. ARC Saturday Sunrise Seminar. Washington Hospital. November 16, 2013
Tissue Banking Overview and Regulatory Issues. BloodSource Transfusion Medicine Symposium, June, 2009
Managing Adverse Reactions in Teenage Donors. California Blood Bank Society Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar, February 2009
Tissue Banking. California Blood Bank Society Annual Meeting, April 2008
Therapeutic Apheresis. California Blood Bank Society Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar, February 3, 2007
New and Emerging Diseases in Blood Banking. California Blood Bank Society Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar, February 3, 2007
What’s New in Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Therapy? California Blood Bank Society Medical Technologists Regional Seminar, February 28, 2004
PUBLICATIONS:
Mazzei CA, Popovsky MA, and Kopko PM. Noninfectious Complications of Blood Transfusion. In: Technical Manual, 18th edition, AABB Press, 2014
Kopko PM, Mazzei CA. Blood Center Participation. In: Saxena, S, Shulman, IA eds., The Transfusion Committee: Putting Patient Safety First. 2nd edition, Bethesda, MD: AABB Press, 2013
Mazzei CA, Popovsky MA, and Kopko PM. Noninfectious Complications of Blood Transfusion. In: Technical Manual, 17th edition, AABB Press, 2011
Mazzei CA, Autologous Blood Salvage Procedures – an Overview.
CBBS Today Spring 2011:Vol. XXIX, No. 1
Mazzei CA, Popovsky MA, and Kopko PM. Noninfectious Complications of Blood Transfusion. In: Technical Manual, 16th edition, AABB Press, 2008
Kopko PM, Mazzei CA. Blood Center Participation. In: Saxena, S, Shulman, IA eds., The Transfusion Committee: Putting Patient Safety First. Bethesda, MD: AABB Press, 2006
Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor and Dexamethasone Stimulation of Granulocyte Donors Allows Collection of Clinically Efficacious Numbers of Granulocytes. Mazzei CA, Pepkowitz SH, Klapper E, Goldfinger D. Abstract. J Clin Apheresis.
Treatment of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Role for Early Vincristine Administration. Mazzei C, Pepkowitz S, Klapper E, Goldfinger D. J Clin Apheresis 1998; 13(1):20-2.
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