Since March 2017, Dr. Xie Dong Fu, a physician of Clinical Transfusion Consultation Services of Shanghai Blood Center (SBC), has been undergoing a training program as a visiting scholar at Bloodworks. Bloodworks is an outstanding institute on blood services and transfusion medicine research. The duration of the program is six months. 

Headquartered in Seattle, Bloodworks (formerly Puget Sound Blood Center) is one of the nation’s largest blood centers and is one of only four that supports an NIH-funded research institute. 

Bloodworks is affiliated with the University of Washington (UW), and most of their physicians and scientists hold appointments in either Hematology or Laboratory Medicine at UW. Together with other clinical pathology fellows from UW, Dr. Xie is receiving formal fellowship training in transfusion medicine, laboratory medicine and hematology. 

During his first month in the program, Dr. Xie observed blood center operation processes and blood banking quality management, including blood collecting, processing, testing, inventory management, distributing, internal audit, management review and quality assurance. Dr. Xie also observed the Bloodworks public cord blood bank which collaborates with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).