Allan Doctor, MD
Titles
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport & Hemostasis
School Affiliation
School of Medicine
Specialties
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Translational Transfusion Medicine
Blood Substitute Design
About
Phone: 410-706-7084
Email: adoctor@som.umaryland.edu
Allan Doctor, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis. He is a Pediatric Intensivist and previously led Pediatric Critical Care at Washington University and St Louis Children’s Hospital for 10 years, stepping down and then transitioning to UMB to focus on a rapidly expanding research program and on development of a novel bio-synthetic artificial red cell. His laboratory studies the role of red blood cell-based signaling in the control of regional blood flow, related pathophysiology arising from acquired red cell injuries, blood substitute design, and on translational transfusion medicine in critical illness.
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