The Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine (BBTM) Fellowship Program, jointly offered by the Medical College of Wisconsin and Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, aims to train future leaders in blood banking and transfusion medicine. This one-year fellowship provides graduates with a wide range of training that prepares them to undertake any job in the BBTM field, particularly transfusion service and blood center direction. Transfusion medicine, pathology and hematology faculty from Versiti and the Medical College of Wisconsin provide clinical, educational and research mentorship.

The fellow will spend time in transfusion services and apheresis departments at Froedtert Hospital and Children’s Wisconsin, both of which house level 1 trauma centers, sickle cell centers, solid organ transplant programs, and joint hematopoietic transplant and hemophilia programs. Fellows will also spend time at Advocate Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, a quaternary hospital system. At our world-famous Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, fellows will learn blood manufacturing and management, regulatory and quality principles, and donor management. Unique to our program, fellows will rotate through our national and international reference labs for immunohematology, hemostasis, platelet and neutrophil immunology, and histocompatibility. In addition, we offer a uniquely flexible curriculum that allows the fellow to identify a particular area of interest and spend additional time in training and research. Current training tracks include coagulation, therapeutic apheresis, pediatric transfusion medicine and immunohematology. We also offer mentorship and dedicated weeks for research. Finally, we offer an optional second year for eligible candidates who wish to pursue a specific clinical or research area.

All candidates must be certified or eligible for certification in clinical pathology, hematology/oncology (adult or pediatric) or other major specialty boards. Stipends are commensurate with the level of relevant post-graduate training and expertise.

Applicants are currently being accepted for 2025-2026, 2026-2027, and 2027-2028 academic years.

Eligible candidates interested in applying should send their CV and a letter of interest to: 

100% of alumni have passed the American Board of Pathology BBTM board exams on their first try. After completion of the transfusion medicine fellowship program, our alumni have gone on to work in several types of practice settings located in the United States and Canada.