Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH
Dr. Meghan Delaney is the assistant medical director at Puget Sound Blood Center and an assistant professor at the University of Washington at the Department of Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Delaney completed her residency in Clinical Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and her fellowship in Transfusion Medicine / Blood Banking at Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, Washington. At Puget Sound Blood Center, Dr Delaney serves as the Assistant Medical Director and helps oversee the centralized transfusion and mobile apheresis services. Her clinical laboratory focus is on pediatric transfusion medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is also the Medical Director for the Clinical Red Cell Genomics Laboratory which genotypes patients with difficult serological findings, blood donors and obstetrical cases. Some of her scholarly activities include the RECESS trial in red cell storage time; public health work on blood donor health and blood banking safety in Ghana, Africa; and teaching residents as the director for the University of Washington Laboratory Medicine resident rotation in blood banking and transfusion medicine.
James P. AuBuchon, MD, FCAP, FRCP(Edin)
Dr. Jim AuBuchon is the CEO and President of Puget Sound Blood Center and a professor of medicine (Hematology) and of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington.
Dr. AuBuchon came to Puget Sound Blood Center in 2008. He was attracted by its world-wide reputation for innovation and research and saw the position as a natural extension of his own career in transfusion medicine and blood component research.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, Dr. AuBuchon trained at the National Institutes of Health before serving in regional blood center and national headquarters positions of the American Red Cross Blood Services. Before coming to Seattle, he spent 18 years at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as the Medical Director of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Service and then as the E. Elizabeth French Professor and Chair of Pathology and Professor of Medicine. His research has paralleled a long-standing interest of the blood center’s in developing improved ways of collecting and storing blood components and documenting their effectiveness through radiolabeling. He also has been active in developing processes to improve recipient safety by reducing the risk of bacterial contamination and ensuring that the right patient gets the right unit. Another interest is decision analysis, identifying the benefits and costs of new safety initiatives.
Dr. AuBuchon served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and has chaired the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative, an international research group dedicated to improving transfusion. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1999. He is currently the President of the American Association of Blood Banks.
David A. McGuire MD
Dr. David McGuire is an Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in Arthroscopic Knee. He is a past president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and on the current AANA Board of Directors. He is an affiliate professor at University of Alaska Anchorage.
Dr. McGuire is a pioneer in the field of arthroscopic knee surgery. As holder of over 20 medical patents, Dr. McGuire and his research team in Alaska have made significant contributions toward improving patients’ clinical outcome worldwide – demonstrating innovation and technological advancements can make a difference.
Maj. George A. Hestilow, MT (ASCP), SBB, MS
George A. Hestilow is a major in the United States Air Force, Biomedical Science Corps. He is the Chief of Laboratory Services at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. He earned his Masters in Science in Immunohematology at the George Washington University. Prior to his current position, he was the Deputy Chief & QA, AF Blood Program, AFMOA/SGB, in San Antonio, Texas. He has also been the Chief of Transfusion Services at Lackland AFB in Texas and Osan AFB in South Korea. He has served deployments in Qatar and Iraq. In 2010, he earned Air Force Medical Service Research/Special Duty Laboratory Scientist of the Year.
Dr. James Tiesinga
Dr. James Tiesinga was born in Bellingham, WA. He has extended family in Southeast Alaska. Dr. Tiesinga earned his BA from Columbia College in New York and his MD from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a Surgical Pathology Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Hematopathology Fellowship at New York University. He later earned a Masters Degree in Healthcare Management from Harvard University.
Dr. Tiesinga served on faculty at New York University for 3 years before entering private practice. In 2006, he left private practice to join the Medical Staff at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, where he has served as Laboratory Medical Director for more than 5 years. Dr. Tiesinga is also the Laboratory Medical Director for Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital in Barrow, Maniilaq Health Center in Kotzebue, Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome, and Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka. He is also the Transfusion Service Director for Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham.
Dr. Tiesinga is actively involved in best practice initiatives throughout the Alaska Tribal Health System and Indian Health Service, and he is a frequent contributor to Tribal forums across the country. In his free time, Dr. Tiesinga likes to hunt and fish.
Constance Stager MT(ASCP) MBA
Constance Stager was born in Anchorage at Alaska Regional Hospital but lived in the lower 48 until moving to Alaska to take a job as lab manager at Maniilaq Health Center in July 2008. Since that time, she has become involved in lab related activities throughout the State.
She has practical experience managing transfusion-services in rural Alaska for more than 3 years and is the coauthor of AJCP abstract: Application of Quality Measures Improves Transfusion Service Documentation in Rural Alaska, to be presented at ASCP National Conference in October 2011. She is the 2011-2012 Clinical Laboratory Scientists of Alaska President.
