Magali Fontaine
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Department of Pathology 300 Pasteur Dr H1402 MC 5324 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 736-4250 Fax (650) 723-9178Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Clinical Pathology
- Pathology
Administrative Appointments
- Assistant Director of Blood Services, Stanford Blood Center (2004 - present)
- Associate Director, Transfusion Service (2004 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Excellence in Teaching, Pathology (2008)
- M.D. Summa cum laude, University of Paris V (10-31-1989)
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology (2002) |
| Board Certification: | Transfusion Medicine, American Board of Pathology (2002) |
| Fellowship: | Mayo Clinic, MN (2000) |
| Residency: | University of Illinois, IL (1999) |
| Internship: | University of Illinois, IL (1995) |
Postdoctoral Advisees
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Research Interests
Our interest lies at the frontier of Transfusion Medicine by developing and optimizing new cellular therapies such as islet transplantation for patients with Type 1 Diabetes.
Our primary focus has been to treat IDDM-I with pancreatic islet-cell replacement therapy instead of insulin-injections. We have studied pancreatic islet preservation and function after their isolation from the pancreas and we have developed new conditions of isolation to optimize islet cell function for transplantation. This new therapeutic approach still needs refinements, which we are working on, to prevent long term islet-graft failure from recurrence of autoimmunity, rejection, and/or insulin resistance.
Publications
- Improving platelet supply chains through collaborations between blood centers and transfusion services. Transfusion. 2009; (10): 2040-7
- Implementation of a two-specimen requirement for verification of ABO/Rh for blood transfusion. Transfusion. 2009; (7): 1321-8
- Retrospective analysis of transfusion outcomes in pregnant patients at a tertiary obstetric center. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2009; (4): 302-8
- Islet cell survival during isolation improved through protein kinase C epsilon activation. Transplant Proc. 2008; (2): 375-8
- TSG-6 protein expression in the pancreatic islets of NOD mice. J Mol Histol. 2008; (6): 585-93
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