AM25-MN-24-L - Transfusing Safely and Wisely: Much Progress But Still Need to Do Better (Emily Cooley Memorial Award and Lectureship)

Monday, October 27, 2025

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM PT

Room: SDCC 33

Award Acceptance(s)

Michael Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPath

Professor of Transfusion Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, England

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Program Chair(s)

Federico Rodriguez Quezada, SBB, MLS(ASCP) (he/him/his)

Collections and Processing Lab Facility Manager
UFHealth Shands
Gainesville, Florida

Disclosure information not submitted.

The focus of the presentation will be on efforts over the last 3 decades to improve transfusion practice in the UK and how we can learn from each other in what are effective measures to improve it.

Learning Objectives:

Highlight the progress in the quality of transfusion practice
Indicate where problems still exist and where further improvements are needed
Describe the efforts being made to drive improvements in practice