Craig Fletcher, MD

Director, Transfusion Medicine
Attending Physician
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Dr. Craig Fletcher is the Senior Director of Transfusion Medicine and an Attending Physician under the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His major areas of research include patient safety, patient blood management, and blood product utilization.

Education

Medical School

Medical University of South Carolina

Internship

University of Florida Health Science Center, Internal Medicine

Residency

University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Fellowship

William Beaumont Hospital, Blood Banking / Transfusion Medicine

Accomplishments

Certifications

American Board of Pathology: Clinical Pathology, Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine

Professional Memberships

Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biologics (AABB)
Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM)
Michigan Society of Pathologists
Michigan Association of Blood Banks (MABB)

Awards

MVP Award at UF Health Cancer Center

Publications

Fletcher, CH**, DomBourian, MG*, Millward, PA. Platelet transfusion for patients with cancer. Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. 36(3): 47-51, 2015. PMID 25504278.

Beigel, JH, Tebas, P, IRC002 Study Team. Immune plasma for the treatment of severe influenza: an open-label, multicentre, phase 2 randomised study. The Lancet - Respiratory Medicine. 5(6): 500-511, 2017. PMID 28522352, PMCID PMC5828518.

Moinuddin, IA*, Millward, P, Fletcher, CH**. Acute Intravascular Hemolysis Following an ABO Non-Identical Platelet Transfusion: A Case Report and Literature Review. American Journal of Case Reports. 20: 1075-9. 2019. PMID 31332158. PMCID PMC6668583.

Mounuddin, I*, Fletcher, C**, Millward, P. Prevalence and specificity of clinically significant red cell alloantibodies in pregnant women - a study from a tertiary care hospital in Southeast Michigan. Journal of Blood Medicine. 10: 283-9. 2019. PMID 31692490, PMCID PMC6708388.

Research

  • Patient safety
  • Patient blood management
  • Blood product utilization