Lawrence Tim Goodnough

Lawrence Tim Goodnough, MD is Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Hematology) in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, at Stanford University and he is the Director of the Stanford Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program.

Dr. Goodnough received his medical degree in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania, completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, Alabama, and a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He is board certified in Medicine, Hematology, and Oncology; and has an American College of Pathology Certification in Blood Banking.

In his fellowship at CWRU, Dr. Goodnough specialized in coagulation research and later focused on Transfusion Medicine as a specialty that embraces the fields of Blood Banking, Coagulation, and Hematology.

As a frequent lecturer, he has presented his work in more than 300 national and international forums.  Dr. Goodnough has contributed more than 500 articles and 200 abstracts to the medical literature.  He has a long-standing interest in devising strategies for patients to utilize alternatives to blood transfusion for the management of anemia, a concept more recently defined as Patient Blood Management.

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