Director (Transfusion Medicine Section Representative)

Jeffrey L. Winters, MD, graduated with high distinction from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, Ky. in 1993. His postgraduate training consisted of an Anatomic/Clinical Pathology residency in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky and a Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking fellowship in the Division of Transfusion Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine.

Following the completion of his training in 1999, Winters served as the Associate Director of the Blood Bank at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, the Director of the Blood Bank at the Cooper Drive Division of the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., and the Associate Medical Director of the Central Kentucky Blood Center.

In 2001, Winters returned to the Mayo Clinic as a physician in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He is currently Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Mayo College of Medicine and is the Program Director of the Mayo Clinic Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking Fellowship Program, Associate Program Director in charge of Clinical Pathology Curriculum for the Mayo Clinic Anatomic/Clinical Pathology Residency Program, and the Vice-chair of the Division of Transfusion Medicine. In addition, Winters is an attending physician on the Mayo Clinic Transfusion Medicine Service. Finally, Winters is Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Therapeutic Apheresis Treatment Unit, a fifteen-bed unit performing approximately 3,000 therapeutic apheresis procedures annually.

Winters is actively involved in the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) and previously served as the society’s president. He has served on the Apheresis Applications committees responsible for the 2000, 2007, 2010 and 2013 therapeutic apheresis guidelines. Winters is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Apheresis. He was an editor and author for Apheresis: Principles and Practice 3rd edition and Therapeutic Apheresis: A Physician’s Handbook 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. Winters has been an author on more than 125 peer reviewed publications, 86 of which focus on apheresis.

Winters has served as the chair of the AABB Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program Directors’ Subcommittee of the TMSCC and is currently serving as the TMSCC chair. He is also a member of the College of American Pathologists Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee.

Specialty Areas: Apheresis, both therapeutic and donor; Transfusion medicine education; Transfusion medicine practice.

Board Committees: Clinical, Scientific and Research (CSR) Council; Finance Committee