
Jeannie Callum
MD, FRCPC
Associate scientist
jeannie.callum@sunnybrook.ca
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 416-480-4045
Fax: 416-480-6035
Research Assistant:
Dr. Callum’s research focus is the improvement of transfusion practice within the hospital setting. Her goal is to improve the appropriateness of transfusion practice, reduce wastage and improve transfusion safety to minimize adverse effects.
Her current research projects at Sunnybrook include the following:
- implementation of positive patient identification (mobile handheld computers) for transfusion to reduce the risk of acute haemolytic transfusion reactions;
- implementation of a Province wide education program for transfusion medicine, including a web-based educational program and transfusion handbook (Bloody Easy 2);
- implementation of remote allocation of red blood cells in 3 operating rooms in Ontario to improve safety and reduce blood product wastage; and
- development and implementation of a National Transfusion Error Tracking System for Canada.
Education
- BA, 1989, Queen’s University, Canada
- MD, 1993, University of Toronto, Canada
- FRCPC, 1996, internal medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
- FRCPC, 1998, adult hematology, University of Toronto, Canada
- Fellowship, 1999, transfusion medicine, Canadian Blood Services, Canada
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate scientist, Biological Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Associate staff, department of laboratory hematology/transfusion medicine, University Health Network
- Director of transfusion medicine and tissue banks, department of clinical pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Assistant professor, department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, University of Toronto
Research Foci
- Tissue banks
- Transfusion Medicine
Publications
Affiliated Labs & Programs
In the News
- Blood not so simple: preventing trauma patients from bleeding out is one of the most challenging tasks a trauma team faces—but so is ensuring they don't get lethal blood clots
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Appropriate or not: Summer student conducts first Canadian audit of platelet transfusions
August 8, 2016
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Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injuries Identified in Burn Patients
March 6, 2007