Posted on Dec. 10: Researcher awarded Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Blood Services

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Morris_A._Blajchman.jpg” caption=”Morris A. Blajchman”]Morris A. Blajchman, professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Blood Services.

The award recognizes Blajchman's 25 years of service for CBS and more than 30 years of accomplishments within the faculty. In addition to helping form transfusion policies across Canada, Blajchman's efforts in research have brought new knowledge that has changed international transfusion practices. He has played an integral role in educating both members in the department and individuals involved with transfusion medicine across the country.

Blajchman qualified as a physician at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His post-graduate training was in internal medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in Hematology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, England. The latter was with the illustrious hematologist Sir John Dacie. Blajchman has been on the faculty of McMaster University since 1970, as a professor in the departments of pathology and medicine. He is both the head of the Transfusion Medicine Service of the McMaster University Health Sciences Laboratory Medicine Program and the medical director of the Hamilton Centre of Canadian Blood Services.

Blajchman has been active in research relating to various aspects of transfusion medicine and hemostasis, including: the investigation of the hemostatic function of novel platelet products and substitutes; the evaluation of leukoreduction as a clinical benefit for transfusion recipients; the study of the immunomodulatory aspects of allogeneic transfusions; the evaluation of the significance of bacteria in the blood supply; the investigation of transfusion requirements in critical care patients; and the exploration of structural-functional relationships of various clotting factors and inhibitors of coagulation. Blajchman has prepared more than 330 articles and book chapters relating to his academic activities. In December 2002, Blajchman became section editor for the Transfusion section of the new Hematology Web site BloodMed.com co-ordinated by Blackwell Publishing. He is also the founding editor of Transfusion Medicine Reviews, which in January 2004 will begin its eighteenth year of publication.

For more information on Blajchman and his research activities, click here to view his faculty profile.

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[img_inline align="right" src="http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Morris_A._Blajchman.jpg" caption="Morris A. Blajchman"]Morris A. Blajchman, professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from <a href="http://www.bloodservices.ca/">Canadian Blood Services</a>.<p><br />
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The award recognizes Blajchman&#039;s 25 years of service for CBS and more than 30 years of accomplishments within the faculty. In addition to helping form transfusion policies across Canada, Blajchman&#039;s efforts in research have brought new knowledge that has changed international transfusion practices. He has played an integral role in educating both members in the department and individuals involved with transfusion medicine across the country.<p><br />
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Blajchman qualified as a physician at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His post-graduate training was in internal medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in Hematology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, England. The latter was with the illustrious hematologist Sir John Dacie. Blajchman has been on the faculty of McMaster University since 1970, as a professor in the departments of pathology and medicine. He is both the head of the Transfusion Medicine Service of the McMaster University Health Sciences Laboratory Medicine Program and the medical director of the Hamilton Centre of Canadian Blood Services. <p><br />
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Blajchman has been active in research relating to various aspects of transfusion medicine and hemostasis, including: the investigation of the hemostatic function of novel platelet products and substitutes; the evaluation of leukoreduction as a clinical benefit for transfusion recipients; the study of the immunomodulatory aspects of allogeneic transfusions; the evaluation of the significance of bacteria in the blood supply; the investigation of transfusion requirements in critical care patients; and the exploration of structural-functional relationships of various clotting factors and inhibitors of coagulation. Blajchman has prepared more than 330 articles and book chapters relating to his academic activities. In December 2002, Blajchman became section editor for the Transfusion section of the new Hematology Web site <a href="http://www.bloodmed.com/home/">BloodMed.com</a> co-ordinated by Blackwell Publishing. He is also the founding editor of <i>Transfusion Medicine Reviews</i>, which in January 2004 will begin its eighteenth year of publication. <p><br />
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For more information on Blajchman and his research activities, <a href="http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/path/directory/fac/blajchman.htm">click here</a> to view his faculty profile.

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