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Blizard Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Josephine McCullagh

Consultant Clinical Scientist in Transfusion Medicine

Email: j.mccullagh@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 7391248640

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Josephine is a clinical scientist specialising in transfusion medicine. She completed her higher specialist scientific training (HSST) between 2017 and 2022. During this time, she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and undertook research looking at the feasibility of introducing whole blood for the management of traumatic haemorrhage under the supervision of Professor Laura Green. For this work she was awarded the silver research medal by the RCPath for outstanding research work undertaken by pathologists or scientists in training.

In 2024 she was appointed as a Consultant Clinical Scientist in transfusion medicine jointly between NHSBT and Barts Health NHS Trust. Josephine is actively involved in the wider transfusion community and is a member of the Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) working expert group (WEG) and co-authors the Avoidable, Delayed and Under transfused (ADU) chapter in the annual SHOT report. She is also an active member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and sits on the Clinical Transfusion working party.

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