Asian Associations of Transfusion Medicine

The Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM) is a manifestation of the determination of leading specialists in Transfusion Medicine from Asian countries to work together towards finding solutions for their common problems in the spirit of friendship, trust and understanding and to create an order based on mutual respect, equality and shared benefits.Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM) has its presence in 22 countries and focuses on improving Transfusion and Transplantation medicine in the Asian Region .

Member countries includes :-

1.BANGLADESH, 2.AFGHANISTAN, 3.INDIA, 4.TURKEY, 5.IRAN, 6.SAUDI ARABIA, 7.PAKISTAN,
8. SRI LANKA, 9.MALDIVES,10.LAOS, 11.NEPAL, 12.BHUTAN,13.CAMBODIA,14.MONGOLIA, 15.TIMORE-LESTE, 16.KYRGYZTAN,17. QATAR ,18.UAE, 19.OMAN

AATM is registered in New Delhi, India.For the advancement of Transfusion Medicine AATM undertakes several activities with an annual calendar . WET WORKSHOPS are conducted and fellowships are given to aspiring Transfusion Medicine Trainees and Specialists every year.
AATM co-ordinates with other professional bodies like the AABB for conduct of conference and other educational programs.

Learning is an ongoing process and considering that AATM has developed this E learning platform for updating knowledge of Transfusion medicine specialist. To comply with its philosophy of expanding the knowledge horizon of its members / associates and allied medical professionals.

AATM has deeply researched and developed this online learning platform, wherein participants can not only undergo development courses but also get certification for career advancement.One can also accessed latest resources on transfusion medicine

ATM’s E learning is a comprehensive yet precise learning platform aimed at developing and updating domain knowledge of professionals in the Blood Transfusion domain.The learning covers a wide array of topics in blood transfusion like safe transfusion practice, blood component etc .

Advance Certificate in Transfusion Medicine is endorsed by AATM and efforts are on to get the endorsement from other international societies.

DR. NABAJYOTI CHOUDHURY - Program Conceiver

As initiator of this online program Dr Nabajyoti Choudhury is well known figure in the field of Transfusion Medicine. Presently he is working as Director (Admin) at Health City, Guwahati, Assam (India) and before joining present assignment he held the post of Additional Director and Head, Department of Transfusion Medicine at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon (India). He is an alumnus of Department of Transfusion Medicine at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow (India). He is an MBBS, PhD, MBA, MNAMS who has extensive research and administrative experience in the field of Transfusion Medicine. He has 78 research publications, 12 book chapters and 15 research projects to his credit besides supervising 10 theses. Dr Choudhury had been the founder editor of Asian Journal of Transfusion Science. He has delivered presentations in over 228 scientific forums. He is the chief editor of three volumes text book “A Text Book on Laboratory & Clinical Transfusion Medicine” published by Nova Biomedical, New York 2017. He is the President of Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM) from 2017-20. He is/has been member of national and international organizations including WHO where he is a resource person for SEARO in Transfusion Medicine in India. He was a member of National Blood Transfusion Council, Govt of India from 1999-2002 and member of Technical Resource Group on Blood Safety and Transfusion services of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt Of India from 1999-2006. He is the lead assessor for blood bank accreditation, NABH, QCI, Govt of India. He received a patent award in 2017 besides being awarded national and international fellowships throughout his career. He is also chairman of National Standards for Blood Banks & Blood Transfusion Services (review & revise) under NACO, Govt of India. He has visited 59 blood centers abroad. As consultant he has helped in development of blood transfusion services in many countries.

DR. ANANDA GUNASEKERA - Program Observer

Dr.Ananda Gunasekera , MBBS, Msc(Med.Admin), MCMA is a former Deputy Director General of Health (Medical Services) , Sri Lanka who has served as a Medical Faculty at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka from 1975 to 1980 with postgraduate training experience from Birmingham University, UK in 1990 and Long Beach University, USA in 2000. He has many national and international publications and has delivered keynote addresses at international forums. He has been conferred with Provincial Productivity Award, 2009; Commendation, Taiki Akimoto 5S Award, 2009, Gold’ National Green Award, 2011, Silver; National Health Excellence Award, Large Campaigns, 2009- 2010, Gold; ISO 15189 Accreditation for Laboratory Services, from 2011 – 2014; National Quality Award Ceremony, 2011, Merit Award; ISBT Best Transfusion Service in the developing world, 2009 to 2011 and President’s Award of the AABB for the International services rendered in Transfusion Medicine, October 2018. He has served as President of AATM from 2009 to 2013 and as an Executive committee Member of Asian Federation of Sports Medicine 2011 to 2017, Member of the Sports medical council of Sri Lanka 2011 to 2017, Secretary General of AATM From 2018 onwards, International Coordinator for AABB/AATM Quality Assurance, Vice Chair Global Transfusion Forum (guided by AABB) From 2018, Member of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya , Sri Lanka from 2019 onwards.

DR. ANUPAM VERMA - Program Director

Dr Anupam Verma, presently working as Professor in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, (SGPGI) Lucknow, (India) holds an MBBS, MD degree (Pathology) from AMU, Aligarh and PDCC (Apheresis Technology & Blood Component Therapy) from SGPGI, Lucknow. He has also done “Intermediate Transfusion Medicine Course” from National Blood Services, Tooting in London in 2006. He has more than 20 years of experience in blood banking with special interest in clinical transfusion medicine including hemostasis. He has 42 research publications in national & international journals to his credit besides 3 book chapters. He has supervised more than 15 theses of students pursuing MD and DM courses. He was selected for the prestigious “Princess of Wales” award by British Blood Transfusion Society and received international travel fellowships for UK in 2006 and then for Australia in 2007. He has received Harold Gunsen fellowships twice from ISBT ( China in 2008 and Germany in 2010). He is also recipient of ISBTI Young Scientist Fellowship Award. He received 'Award for Excellence in Transfusion Medicine' under the Medical Specialty from Venus International Foundation in 2019. He has presented papers in 12 countries besides taking guest lectures in 62 regional and national conferences. He has served as State Nodal Officer for Hemophilia for more than 3 years ensuring factors availability at 26 hemophilia centers besides improving diagnostic and physiotherapy services in the most populous state in India. He has held various other administrative posts including Sub-Dean (Faculty) and member Governing Body at SGPGI. He has been an external and internal expert for NACO training on blood safety. He has been appointed external examiner for MD exit examinations in India. Dr Verma is also a member of American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) , International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) , Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM) and Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM).

Dr. Priti Elhence - Lead Faculty

Dr Priti Elhence, currently working as Professor, Dept of Transfusion Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. She is an M.D (Transfusion Medicine) from SGPGI, Lucknow and joined as Faculty in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at SGPGI since 2000. She has also served as Professor & Head of the Dept. of Transfusion Medicine at Dr RMLIMS, Lucknow for almost 2 years till June 2019. She was involved with the training and teaching of MD Pathology Residents and MBBS students. She is actively involved in teaching, research and patient services. Her core work areas include blood component therapy, patient safety programs, Immunohematology, component & therapeutic apheresis, Stem cell & organ transplant program, pediatric & obstetric transfusion, ABO incompatible renal transplant, management of platelet refractoriness, platelet cryopreservation. She served as Nodal Officer for starting MSc Medical Technology Course in Transfusion Medicine at SGPGI. She has been awarded ‘Princess of Wales’ Scholarship of British Blood Transfusion Society in 2003 for attending BBTS annual conference at Manchester, England and ‘Intermediate Transfusion Medicine Course’ at Sheffield in October 2003. Besides a Certificate of Appreciation was awarded to her by Lions Clubs International for the year 2006-7. She has >30 publications in national and international journals; 3 Book Chapters. She is a member of blood safety committee of National Hepatitis control committee. She has presented >50 papers in national and international conferences besides taking many Guest Lectures in National conferences. She is also a Guest Faculty for Indira Gandhi National Open University for Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital and Health Management course since 2005. She has provided her services as Telemedicine Faculty for blood transfusion for Kabul, South Africa and other linked medical colleges. She has been an Expert for Faculty selection at AIIMS, ILBS, PGIMR, Chandigarh. Dr Priti is member of AABB and ISBT besides having membership of AATM , ISBTI, ISTM, Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, Indian Medical Association.

Dr Nidhi Bhatnagar - Lead Faculty

Dr Nidhi Bhatnagar is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Immunohaematology & Blood Transfusion, B J Medical College, Ahmedabad , Gujarat (India) since April 2009. She is a pioneer in this field in her state, since the inception of the department in 2004 in B J Medical College, Ahmedabad. The department was separated from Pathology and a post graduate course in Transfusion Medicine was started which was the first in Gujarat. She has done MBBS, DCP (Pathology & Bacteriology) and M D (Pathology) from B.J. Medical college, Gujarat University. She has organized a number of workshops for the rational use of blood and components for residents and faculty of Civil Hospital as well as conducted a number of training programs for the blood bank medical officer’s and technicians. She was instrumental in getting the accreditation as Quality Manager in Department of IHBT, Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, which was the first blood bank in Government sector in India to be accredited by NABH. She is also Lead Assessor for Blood Banks for NABH, QCI. She has been invited as speaker in national conferences, presented papers in national and international conferences. Dr Nidhi is Reviewer for many national and international journals. She has good number of publications in international & national journals to her credit. She is also Member of International Society for Blood Transfusion ( ISBT), Member of American Association of Blood Banks( AABB), Executive Member of Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine(AATM), Member of Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohaematology ( ISBTI) and Member of Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM) besides being Executive Member of ISBTI- Gujarat Chapter.

DR. PRITI DESAI - Lead Faculty

Dr Priti Desai is presently working as an Associate Professor in Department of Transfusion Medicine at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. She is an MMBS, DCP, MD (Pathology) with 18 years of experience. She has number of research publications in peer review journals including 2 book chapters. She is member of Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology, Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine, Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine, International Society of Blood Transfusion, Executive committee member –Federation of Bombay Blood Banks and Resource Person-National AIDS Control Society, Govt of India. She is also a NABH Assessor for Blood Banks in India.

DR. RAHUL KATHARIA - Lead Faculty

Dr Rahul Katharia , MBBS, MD (Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion) is currently working as an Additional Professor in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. SGPGI is a 1200 bedded academic tertiary care hospital which not only conducts teaching and training of postgraduate but also caters medical needs of different category of patients especially lower economic strata. His areas of interest include apheresis particularly plateletpheresis, therapeutic plasma exchange in various categories of patients. He has established antenatal serology laboratory to manage pregnant females having bad obstetrics history pertaining to alloimmunization and providing compatible blood for intrauterine transfusions. He is actively involved in teaching and training of postgraduate students besides undertaking research projects. He has received Harold Gunson Fellowship of ISBT in 2018 and Apheresis Award for best project , Award for excellence by ISBTI and Young Investigator award, KSH South Korea.

DR. SUCHET SACHDEV - Lead Faculty

Dr Suchet Sachdev is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research at Chandigarh, India. He is an MBBS from BJMC & Sassoon Hospitals Pune , MD from Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital Mumbai. He has done Senior Residency from GMCH Sector 32 Chandigarh. His areas of interest include voluntary blood donation & transfusion transmissible infectious disease testing. He is an Associate Editor for Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. He has 29 National & International Publications to his credit.

Dr. Md. Ashadul Islam

Dr. Md. Ashadul Islam , MBBS, DBS&T (Dhaka University) is working as Professor in the Department of Transfusion Medicine & Additional registrar in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka (Bangladesh). His areas of interest include Apheresis, Blood Component Therapy, Clinical & Rational Use of Blood and Blood Component, Transfusion Serology, lmmunohematology, Voluntary Counseling and Testing, and Voluntary Blood Donation. He has 58 publications in national and international publications besides 4 research projects. He is Vice President of Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM). He is also General Secretary, National Safe Blood Transfusion Expert Committee (NSBTEC); President, National Voluntary Blood Donor Committee (NVBDC) and Senior Vice-President, Blood Transfusion Society of Bangladesh (BTSB). He is a member of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT). He has attended many national and international conferences and other academic events. He is a pioneer in blood transfusion in Bangladesh.

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