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Office
33 Cedar St
Ynhh Laboratory Medicine
New Haven, CT 06519Phone+1 203-932-5711
Summary
- Dr. Raisa Balbuena Merle is a pathologist in New Haven, CT and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Yale-New Haven Hospital and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System. She received her medical degree from University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and has been in practice 5 years. She specializes in blood banking & transfusion medicine, hematopathology, anatomic pathology, and clinical pathology and is experienced in anatomic pathology, hematopathology, clinical pathology, transfusion medicine, and blood banking. She has more than 10 publications and over 50 citings.
Education & Training
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, 2018 - 2019
Yale University Masters in Health Science, 2017 - 2019- Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Hematopathology, 2016 - 2017
University of Puerto RicoResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2013 - 2017- University of Puerto Rico School of MedicineClass of 2012
Certifications & Licensure
CT State Medical License 2016 - 2024
PR State Medical License 2015 - 2017- American Board of Pathology Pathology - Anatomic/Pathology - Clinical
- American Board of Pathology Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
- American Board of Pathology Hematopathology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 22 citationsRed blood cell alloimmunization and delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions in patients with sickle cell disease.Raisa Balbuena-Merle, Jeanne E. Hendrickson
Transfusion Clinique Et Biologique. 2019-02-22 - 17 citationsFatal acute hemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-B from a platelet apheresis unit stored in platelet additive solution.Raisa Balbuena-Merle, F. Bernadette West, Christopher A. Tormey, Jeanne E. Hendrickson
Transfusion. 2019-06-01 - 14 citationsThe evanescence and persistence of RBC alloantibodies in blood donors.Ronald G. Hauser, Denise Esserman, Matthew S. Karafin, Sylvia Tan, Raisa Balbuena-Merle
Transfusion. 2020-02-15
Lectures
- The Presence and Persistence of Pregnancy-Associated Red Blood Cell Alloantibodies in Blood Donors61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting - Orlando, FL - 12/7/2019
- Elevated Levels of CD64 MFI on Monocyte Subsets Are Associated with a History of Stroke in Sickle Cell Disease2018 ASH Annual Meeting - San Diego, CA - 12/1/2018
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