Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is helping to train the next generation of researchers in transfusion science. This blog post highlights just some of the achievements in education, training or knowledge mobilization accomplished by CBR trainees. This post was written by Colton Strong, PhD Candidate supervised by Dr. Christian Kastrup and Dr. Dana Devine at the Centre for Blood Research in Vancouver. Colton was recently the recipient of the 2023 Killam Doctoral Award given by The Killam Trusts for his research developing

Blood is listed on the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines. It is lifesaving and prescribed by physicians in every country in the world. Yet, health care providers in many of these countries do not have access to critical education content needed to ensure that they deliver the most evidence-based patient blood management. This gap in evidence-based education can negatively impact patient safety and outcomes regardless of the hemovigilance and operational practices of laboratories and blood services organizations. Transfusion Camp, a teaching curriculum employing interactive