Professor James Isbister
As part of The Transfusion Question debate, the CEC and Blood Watch have enlisted the support of one of the world’s leading specialists in transfusion medicine and patient blood management – Professor James Isbister.
Professor Isbister is looking forward to discussing and debating with you the important clinical issues around the risks of allogenic blood transfusion and a patient-centred approach to blood management.
Professor James Isbister
- MB BS BSc(Med) FRACP FRCPA
- Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney
- Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney
- Emeritus Consultant in Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Professor Isbister has been associated with Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital since 1980, where he was head of department of haematology and transfusion medicine from 1982-1996. He has over 100 publications in the scientific literature and is the author of three textbooks on haematology and transfusion medicine as well as contributing chapters to several major textbooks.
He is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee and Board Member of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. He also is also a board member of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management and the Medical Society for Patient Blood Management.
He has been awarded by his peers life membership in the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion.
He was the Carl De Gruchy orator for the Haematology Society in 2000 and the Ruth Sanger Orator for the Blood Transfusion Society in 2004. In 2000 he was awarded the Peter Schiff award for his contributions to Transfusion Medicine in Australia and New Zealand.
In recognition of his international contributions to patient blood management,
quality and safety in transfusion medicine, he is the recipient of the 2008
President's Award of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management,
presented at the 2008 annual meeting in Baltimore, USA.