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Nancy M. Dunbar, MD

Title(s)
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Medicine

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in Clinical Pathology, and in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine

Department(s)
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Medicine

Education
University of Washington School of Medicine, MD 2006
Clinical Pathology Residency, University of Washington School of Medicine, 2006-2009
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, Blood Centers of the Pacific/University of California San Francisco 2009-2010

Contact Information

Department of Pathology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03756

Email: Nancy.M.Dunbar@hitchcock.org


Professional Interests

Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
Medical Education

Courses Taught

Scientific Basis of Medicine, Hematology- Transfusion Medicine Lectures
Course Director, Laboratory Medicine Elective


Selected Publications

 

Why do people still make anti-D over 50 years after the introduction of Rho(D) immune globulin? A Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative study.
DelBaugh RM, Murphy MF, Staves J, Fachini RM, Wendel S, Hands K, Bonet-Bub C, Kutner JM, Cohn CS, Cox CA, Jacquot C, Hasan RA, Lu W, Juskewitch JE, Raval JS, Rollins-Raval MA, Fung MK, Ziman A, Fermon EJ, Gorlin JB, Peters J, Dunbar NM, BEST foRmation of Anti‐D After Rhogam (RADAR) Study Investigators and the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative
Transfusion. 2025 Mar 10; doi: 10.1111/trf.18202. Epub 2025 Mar 10.
PMID: 40059673

Double trouble: A baby with concurrent hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
DelBaugh RM, Thomas B, Gower BJ, Condict B, Luitel A, Davis KN, Szczepiorkowski ZM, Kaufman RM, Dunbar NM
Transfusion. 2025 Feb;65(2):252-254. doi: 10.1111/trf.18120. Epub 2025 Jan 4.
PMID: 39754478

To err is human … so how can we prevent all ABO-incompatible transfusions?
Dunbar NM, Kaufman RM
Br J Haematol. 2025 Feb;206(2):798-799. doi: 10.1111/bjh.19904. Epub 2024 Dec 4.
PMID: 39632346

Addressing platelet insecurity - A national call to action.
Gehrie EA, Young PP, Basavaraju SV, Bracey AW, Cap AP, Culler L, Dunbar NM, Homer M, Isufi I, Macedo R, Petraszko T, Ramsey G, Tormey CA, Kaufman RM, Snyder EL
Transfusion. 2024 Oct;64(10):2001-2013. doi: 10.1111/trf.17987. Epub 2024 Aug 12.
PMID: 39133194

Management of coagulopathy among patients with cirrhosis undergoing upper endoscopy and paracentesis: Persistent gaps and areas of consensus in a multispecialty Delphi.
Tapper EB, Warner MA, Shah RP, Emamaullee J, Dunbar NM, Sholzberg M, Poston JN, Soto RJ, Sarwar A, Pillai A, Reyner K, Mehta S, Ghabril M, Morgan TR, Caldwell S
Hepatology. 2024 Aug 1;80(2):488-499. doi: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000000856. Epub 2024 Apr 1.
PMID: 38557474

Global prevalence and content of information about alcohol use as a cancer risk factor on Twitter.
King AJ, Dunbar NM, Margolin D, Chunara R, Tong C, Jih-Vieira L, Matsen CB, Niederdeppe J
Prev Med. 2023 Dec;177:107728. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107728. Epub 2023 Oct 14.
PMID: 37844803

Guidelines on the Use of Therapeutic Apheresis in Clinical Practice - Evidence-Based Approach from the Writing Committee of the American Society for Apheresis: The Ninth Special Issue.
Connelly-Smith L, Alquist CR, Aqui NA, Hofmann JC, Klingel R, Onwuemene OA, Patriquin CJ, Pham HP, Sanchez AP, Schneiderman J, Witt V, Zantek ND, Dunbar NM
J Clin Apher. 2023 Apr;38(2):77-278. doi: 10.1002/jca.22043.
PMID: 37017433

Transfusion of ABO-group identical red blood cells following uncrossmatched transfusion does not lead to higher mortality in civilian trauma patients.
Yazer MH, Dunbar NM, Hess JR, Tuott EE, Bahmanyar M, Campbell J, Fontaine M, Ko A, Mi J, Murphy MF, Poisson J, Raval JS, Shih AW, Sperry JL, Staves J, Wong M, Yan MTS, Ziman A, Seheult JN
Transfusion. 2023 May;63 Suppl 3:S46-S53. doi: 10.1111/trf.17322. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
PMID: 36971017

Passive order auditing associated with reductions in red blood cell utilization: National blood shortage experience.
Ondrasik RM, Khan J, Szczepiorkowski ZM, Levy JJ, Dunbar NM
Transfusion. 2022 Aug;62(8):1551-1558. doi: 10.1111/trf.17008. Epub 2022 Jul 11.
PMID: 35815525

Hospital red blood cell and platelet supply and utilization from March to December of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: The BEST collaborative study.
Lu W, Yazer M, Li N, Ziman A, Wendel S, Tang H, Tsang H, Titlestad K, Thibodeaux SR, Shih AW, Poisson JL, Pham T, Pandey S, Pagano MB, Shan H, Murphy M, Murphy C, Savioli ML, Kutner JM, Hess AS, Fontaine MJ, Fachini R, Dunbar NM, Kaufman RM, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusions Collaborative
Transfusion. 2022 Aug;62(8):1559-1570. doi: 10.1111/trf.17023. Epub 2022 Jul 15.
PMID: 35808950

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