Ashok Nambiar, MD

HS Clinical Professor -HCOMP

Laboratory Medicine

+1 415 353-1311

Clinical interests include diagnostic immunohematology, blood donor safety and transfusion therapy. Research interests include platelet alloimmunization, microbial contamination of blood products, error management and systems approach to transfusion safety.

Publications:

Anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody interference with blood compatibility testing: Differentiating isatuximab and daratumumab via functional epitope mapping.

Transfusion

Chami B, Okuda M, Moayeri M, Pirenne F, Hidaka Y, Nambiar A, Song Z, Bedel O, Zhang B, Hopke J, Deng G, Zhu C, Mac? S, Chiron M, Adrian F, Fukao T, Basile FG, Martin T

Outcomes after ultramassive transfusion in the modern era: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.

The journal of trauma and acute care surgery

Matthay ZA, Hellmann ZJ, Callcut RA, Matthay EC, Nunez-Garcia B, Duong W, Nahmias J, LaRiccia AK, Spalding MC, Dalavayi SS, Reynolds JK, Lesch H, Wong YM, Chipman AM, Kozar RA, Penaloza L, Mukherjee K, Taghlabi K, Guidry CA, Seng SS, Ratnasekera A, Motameni A, Udekwu P, Madden K, Moore SA, Kirsch J, Goddard J, Haan J, Lightwine K, Ontengco JB, Cullinane DC, Spitzer SA, Kubasiak JC, Gish J, Hazelton JP, Byskosh AZ, Posluszny JA, Ross EE, Park JJ, Robinson B, Abel MK, Fields AT, Esensten JH, Nambiar A, Moore J, Hardman C, Terse P, Luo-Owen X, Stiles A, Pearce B, Tann K, Abdul Jawad K, Ruiz G, Kornblith LZ

Impact of new myeloma agents on the transfusion laboratory.

Pathology

Treatment of immunocompromised COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society

Fung M, Nambiar A, Pandey S, Aldrich JM, Teraoka J, Freise C, Roberts J, Chandran S, Hays SR, Bainbridge E, DeVoe C, Roque Gardner A, Yokoe D, Henrich TJ, Babik JM, Chin-Hong P

Investigating Transfusion-related Sepsis Using Culture-Independent Metagenomic Sequencing.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Crawford E, Kamm J, Miller S, Li LM, Caldera S, Lyden A, Yokoe D, Nichols A, Tran NK, Barnard SE, Conner PM, Nambiar A, Zinter MS, Moayeri M, Serpa PH, Prince BC, Quan J, Sit R, Tan M, Phelps M, Derisi JL, Tato CM, Langelier C

Sepsis from an apheresis platelet contaminated with Acinetobacter calcoaceticus/baumannii complex bacteria and Staphylococcus saprophyticus after pathogen reduction.

Transfusion

Fridey JL, Stramer SL, Nambiar A, Moayeri M, Bakkour S, Langelier C, Crawford E, Lu T, Lanteri MC, Kamm J, Miller S, Wagner SJ, Benjamin RJ, Busch MP

Sepsis Attributed to Bacterial Contamination of Platelets Associated with a Potential Common Source - Multiple States, 2018.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report

Jones SA, Jones JM, Leung V, Nakashima AK, Oakeson KF, Smith AR, Hunter R, Kim JJ, Cumming M, McHale E, Young PP, Fridey JL, Kelley WE, Stramer SL, Wagner SJ, West FB, Herron R, Snyder E, Hendrickson JE, Peaper DR, Gundlapalli AV, Langelier C, Miller S, Nambiar A, Moayeri M, Kamm J, Moulton-Meissner H, Annambhotla P, Gable P, McAllister GA, Breaker E, Sula E, Halpin AL, Basavaraju SV

Development and Implementation of Real-Time Web-Based Dashboards in a Multisite Transfusion Service.

Journal of pathology informatics

Woo JS, Suslow P, Thorsen R, Ma R, Bakhtary S, Moayeri M, Nambiar A

Fatal Sepsis Associated with Bacterial Contamination of Platelets - Utah and California, August 2017.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report

Horth RZ, Jones JM, Kim JJ, Lopansri BK, Ilstrup SJ, Fridey J, Kelley WE, Stramer SL, Nambiar A, Ramirez-Avila L, Nichols A, Garcia W, Oakeson KF, Vlachos N, McAllister G, Hunter R, Nakashima AK, Basavaraju SV

Two septic transfusion reactions presenting as transfusion-related acute lung injury from a split plateletpheresis unit.

Critical care medicine

Rollins MD, Molofsky AB, Nambiar A, Pandey S, Weiskopf RB, Toy P

Longitudinal management with crossmatch-compatible platelets for refractory patients: alloimmunization, response to transfusion, and clinical outcomes (CME).

Transfusion

Wiita AP, Nambiar A

Transfusion

Longitudinal management with crossmatch-compatible platelets for refractory patients: alloimmunization, response to transfusion, and clinical outcomes

Arun Wiita and Ashok Nambiar