PatriciaAnn RamaleyBrunkerMD

Pathology • Boston, MA

Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine, Transplantation Immunology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Office
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114
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Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, 2008 - 2009
Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2004 - 2008
Brigham and Womens HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 2003 - 2004
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown UniversityClass of 2003

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 2008 - 2025
OH State Medical License 2017 - 2021
PA State Medical License 2016 - 2021
KY State Medical License 2016 - 2021
NJ State Medical License 2016 - 2021
MD State Medical License 2012 - 2020
WV State Medical License 2016 - 2020
DC State Medical License 2016 - 2020
VA State Medical License 2016 - 2020
American Board of Pathology Pathology - Anatomic/Pathology - Clinical
American Board of Pathology Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Case 34-2023: A 49-Year-Old Woman with Loss of Consciousness and Thrombocytopenia.
Kori S Zachrison, Shahmir Kamalian, David B Sykes, Patricia A R Brunker> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2023 Nov 9
1 citations
Blood Group Serology and "Race": Looking Back to Move Forward.
Richard L Haspel, William H Schneider, Sunitha Vege, Patricia A R Brunker> ;Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 2023 Jul 1
2 citations
Unmasking delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions in patients with sickle-cell disease: Challenges and opportunities for improvement.
Mischa L Covington, Jensyn K Cone-Sullivan, Chester Andrzejewski, Wen Lu, Reggie R Thomasson, Kerry O'Brien, Patricia A R Brunker, Sean R Stowell> ;Transfusion. 2022 Aug 1
25 citations
Severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia following receipt of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.
Sanjay R V Gadi, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Hanny Al-Samkari, David B. Sykes, Rebecca R. Saff, Janet Lo, Pavan K. Bendapudi, David E. Leaf, Rebecca Karp Leaf> ;Transfusion. 2021 Nov 1
Finding platelets: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
Patricia A. R. Brunker, Vikram Pattanayak, Grace K. Mahowald> ;Transfusion. 2021 Aug 1
2 citations
An open-source python library for detection of known and novel Kell, Duffy and Kidd variants from exome sequencing
Celina Montemayor, Alexandra Simone, James Long, Oscar A. Montemayor, Bhavesh Delvadia, Robert Rivera, Katie L. Lewis, Shahin Shahsavari, Divya Gandla, Katherine Dura,...> ;Vox Sanguinis. 2021 Feb 10
7 citations
Secondary bacterial culture of platelets to mitigate transfusion-associated sepsis: A 3-year analysis at a large academic institution.
Alexander J. Fenwick, Eric A. Gehrie, Christi E. Marshall, Aaron A.R. Tobian, Ruchee Shrestha, Seema Kacker, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Lisa Shifflett, Karen C. Carroll, ...> ;Transfusion. 2020 Aug 4
1 citations
Effect of incubation with crystalloid solutions or medications on packed red blood cells.
Domagoj Mladinov, Kristine Yarnoff, Enika Nagababu, Dan E. Berkowitz, Courtney E. Lawrence, Paul M. Ness, Thomas S. Kickler, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Joan S. Boyd, Jeff...> ;Transfusion. 2019 Aug 1
4 citations
An update on the Scianna blood group system
Patricia A. R. Brunker, Willy A. Flegel> ;Immunohematology. 2019 Jun 1
30 citations
Sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics associated with blood donation in the United States: a population-based study.
Eshan U. Patel, Evan M. Bloch, Mary K. Grabowski, Ruchika Goel, Parvez M. Lokhandwala, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Jodie L. White, Beth H. Shaz, Paul M. Ness, Aaron A.R. T...> ;Transfusion. 2019 Jun 20
20 citations
Association of blood donation with iron deficiency among adolescent and adult females in the United States: a nationally representative study
Eshan U. Patel, Jodie L. White, Evan M. Bloch, Mary K. Grabowski, Eric A. Gehrie, Parvez M. Lokhandwala, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Ruchika Goel, Beth H. Shaz, Paul M. Ne...> ;Transfusion. 2019 May 1
4 citations
Banking with precision: transfusion medicine as a potential universal application in clinical genomics.
Celina Montemayor, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Margaret A. Keller> ;Current Opinion in Hematology. 2019 Nov 1
13 citations
Hemostatic profile and safety of pooled cryoprecipitate up to 120 hours after thawing.
Parvez M. Lokhandwala, Adrian O'Neal, Eshan U. Patel, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Eric A. Gehrie, Gang Zheng, Thomas S. Kickler, Paul M. Ness, Aaron A.R. Tobian> ;Transfusion. 2018 May 1
8 citations
A rare, potentially life-threatening presentation of passenger lymphocyte syndrome.
Thomas J. Gniadek, Andrea M. McGonigle, R. Sue Shirey, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Michael B. Streiff, Benjamin Philosophe, Evan M. Bloch, Paul M. Ness, K. E. King> ;Transfusion. 2017 May 1
2 citations
Modeling alloantibody formation to high-incidence red blood cell antigens in immune responders using genotypic data.
Patricia A. R. Brunker, Keerthana Ravindran, R. S. Shirey> ;Immunohematology. 2017 Jan 1
6 citations
Low incidence of D alloimmunization among patients with a serologic weak D phenotype after D+ transfusion.
Mark H. Yazer, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Suzanne Bakdash, Aaron A.R. Tobian, Darrell J. Triulzi, Victorea Earnest, Samantha Harris, Meghan Delaney> ;Transfusion. 2016 Oct 1
1 citations
Consider the source: The importance of including all transfused products and exposures in red blood cell alloimmunization research
Patricia A. R. Brunker> ;Transfusion. 2016 Feb 1
5 citations
Chimerism in transfusion medicine: the grandmother effect revisited.
Patricia A. R. Brunker> ;Chimerism. 2013 Nov 6
33 citations
Convalescent transfusion for pandemic influenza: preparing blood banks for a new plasma product?
Jonathon P. Leider, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Paul M. Ness> ;Transfusion. 2010 Jun 1
4 citations
Acute hemorrhage from small bowel diverticula harboring strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis.
Mark Fairweather, Bryan M. Burt, Paul A. VanderLaan, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Andrea C. Bafford, Stanley W. Ashley> ;The American Surgeon. 2010 May 1
21 citations
Failure of recombinant factor VIIa to correct the coagulopathy in a case of severe postpartum hemorrhage.
Nicole R. Lewis, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Susan J. Lemire, Richard M. Kaufman> ;Transfusion. 2009 Apr 1
15 citations
A polymorphism that reduces RANTES expression is associated with protection from death in HIV-seropositive Ugandans with advanced disease
Graham S Cooke, Kerrie Tosh, Patricia A. Ramaley, Pontiano Kaleebu, Joanna Zhuang, Jessica Nakiyingi, Christine Watera, Charles F. Gilks, Neil French, James A. G. Whit...> ;The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2006 Sep 1
154 citations
Association of genetic variants of the chemokine receptor CCR5 and its ligands, RANTES and MCP-2, with outcome of HCV infection.
Simon Hellier, Angela J. Frodsham, Branwen J. Hennig, Paul Klenerman, S Knapp, Patricia A. Ramaley, Jack Satsangi, Mark Wright, Lyna Zhang, Howard C. Thomas, Mark Thur...> ;Hepatology. 2003 Dec 1
17 citations
HIV in Africa (Communication arising): chemokine-receptor genes and AIDS risk.
Patricia A. Ramaley, Neil French, Pontiano Kaleebu, Charles F. Gilks, James A. G. Whitworth, Adrian V. S. Hill> ;Nature. 2002 May 9
21 citations
A CD45 polymorphism associated with abnormal splicing is absent in African populations
Elma Tchilian, Ritu Dawes, Patricia A. Ramaley, James A. G. Whitworth, Nadira Yuldasheva, R. S. Wells, Christine Watera, Neil French, Charles F. Gilks, Warunee Kunachi...> ;Immunogenetics. 2002 Feb 1
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