Glenn Ramsey, MD, FCAP

Dr. Glenn Ramsey is Professor of Pathology at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and has been the Medical Director of the Blood Bank at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since 1991. His current areas of interest include clinical transfusion practices, disaster preparedness, immunohematology and the application of blood group molecular testing to patient care. He is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology with subspecialty certification in blood banking and transfusion medicine. He is the chair of the Transfusion, Apheresis and Cell Therapy Committee of the College of American Pathologists, which helps oversee CAP accreditation requirements and proficiency-testing services related to blood banking and cell therapy. He is the CAP representative to the US Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability and to the AABB Interorganizational Disaster Task Force. He has served on several other CAP committees and is past president of the Illinois Association of Blood Banks. He is the program director of the transfusion medicine fellowship program at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. He received undergraduate and medical degrees from Case Western Reserve University, internal medical internship and pathology residency training at the University of Rochester, and transfusion medicine fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh and Central Blood Bank, now Vitalant Pittsburgh.