Titles

Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport & Hemostasis

School Affiliation

School of Medicine

Specialties

• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Translational Transfusion Medicine
• Blood Substitute Design

About

410-706-7084 adoctor@som.umaryland.edu

Allan Doctor, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis. He is a Pediatric Intensivist and previously led Pediatric Critical Care at Washington University and St Louis Children’s Hospital for 10 years, stepping down and then transitioning to UMB to focus on a rapidly expanding research program and on development of a novel bio-synthetic artificial red cell. His laboratory studies the role of red blood cell-based signaling in the control of regional blood flow, related pathophysiology arising from acquired red cell injuries, blood substitute design, and on translational transfusion medicine in critical illness.

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This information was last updated December 13, 2024.