Prof James Isbister
Qualifications: BSc(Med) Hons 1965, MB BS Hons 1968, MRACP 1972, FRACP 1975, FRCPA 1977
Contact Details:
E-mail: jisbiste@med.usyd.edu.au
Telephone:
Facsimile:
Mobile: 0411 023 907
Awards:
Society for Advancement of Blood Management 2008 President’s award
Ruth Sanger Orator for the Blood Transfusion Society in 2004
1999-2000 Bob Pitney Lecturer for the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand
2000 Carl De Gruchy Lecturer of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand
2000 Peter Schiff award for contributions to Transfusion Medicine in Australia & New Zealand
Committees:
Chair of the Advisory Council and Board Member of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Board.
Board member of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM)
Board member of the Medical Society for Patient Blood Management
Current Positions: Prof. Isbister is an emeritus consultant Haematologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney. Prof. Isbister graduated from the University of NSW in 1967 and did his postgraduate training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.He has been associated with Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney since 1980. He has over 100 publications in the scientific literature and is the author of three textbooks on haematology and transfusion medicine and contributes chapters to several major textbooks. Prof. Isbister's contributions to Haematology and Transfusion Medicine in Australia have been acknowledged by several awards. Prof. Isbister has a special interest in medical teaching and is in regular demand as a national and international speaker. Prof. Isbister is Chair of the Advisory Council and Board Member of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Board.
Brief Biography:
Professor James Isbister is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney and an emeritus consultant Hematologist at Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Prof Isbister graduated from the University of NSW in 1967 and did his postgraduate training at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. He has been associated with Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney since 1980, being head of department of hematology and transfusion medicine from 1982-1996.
Prof Isbister's contributions to Hematology and Transfusion Medicine are extensive. He has over 100 publications in the scientific literature and is the author of three textbooks on hematology and transfusion medicine and contributes chapters to several major textbooks. Professor Isbister has a special interest in medical teaching and is in regular demand as a national and international speaker, being well known for some of his iconoclastic views. He emphasizes the importance of regular interaction and information exchange of hematological and transfusion medicine knowledge with other medical specialties. Throughout his career he has been contributing to education programs in the Asia Pacific regions, especially, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. He has been a travelling lecturer for numerous organizations, the most recent being the Royal College of Australasia overseas visiting Professor.
He has had a wide range of research interests, particularly in transfusion medicine and patient blood management. He was involved in setting up the first cell separator aphaeresis unit in a general hospital in Australia, with a particular interest in therapeutic plasma exchange, and was on the team that did the first allergenic bone marrow transplant in Australia. He is passionate about the appropriate, safe and cost effective use of blood component therapy and has been a long time advocate of patient blood management.
He has been an examiner and board of education member for the post graduation colleges and was chief examiner in hematology and transfusion medicine for the Royal College of Pathologist of Australasia from 1989-1995. Professor Isbister is a past-president of the Australian and New Zealand Aphaeresis Association and was president of the 8th congress of the World Aphaeresis Association held in Perth in 2000.
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Links:
http://www.sabm.org/meetings/am2008/presidentsaward.php
http://www.bloodmanagement.org/content/view/26/61/