Muharrem Yunce, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology (Transfusion Medicine)
Director, Apheresis

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Dr. Yunce completed his transfusion medicine fellowship at Stanford and then gained invaluable clinical experience with the Malignant Hematology Group at UCSF for two years. After rejoining Stanford, Dr. Yunce started as the Medical Director of Therapeutic Apheresis. In this role, he works with clinicians from various departments, fellows, residents, and nursing staff to ensure life-saving and emergent procedures such as therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), red cell exchange, plateletpheresis, and leukapheresis are conducted effectively. Additionally, Dr. Yunce oversees extracorporeal photopheresis for solid organ transplant rejection.

Dr. Yunce has been recognized for his contribution to the Department of Pathology as a faculty member in teaching and mentorship. He was selected for Teaching Award in 2023 and Mentor Award by the department and was nominated in 2023 and 2024 for the prestigious Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award for Excellence in Patient Care.

As an active member of the American Society of Apheresis, Dr. Yunce chairs the research subcommittee on TPE utilization in solid organ transplant rejection and desensitization protocols as well as he is member of multiple research subcommittees.

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Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology

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Dr. Jaiswal's lab focuses on understanding the biology of the aging hematopoietic system. As a post-doctoral fellow, he identified a common, pre-malignant state for blood cancers by reanalysis of large sequencing datasets. This condition, termed "clonal hematopoiesis", is characterized by the presence of stem cell clones harboring certain somatic mutations, primarily in genes involved in epigenetic regulation of hematopoiesis. Clonal hematopoiesis is prevalent in the aging population and increases the risk of not only blood cancer, but also cardiovascular disease and overall mortality. Understanding the biology of these mutations and how they contribute to the development of cancer and other age-related diseases is the current focus of work in the lab. These studies utilize genetic and clinical information from large population-based cohorts to understand the impact of clonal hematopoiesis in humans. The effect of the mutations causing clonal hematopoiesis is also studied in human and mouse tissues through a combination of genomic profiling, functional assays, and mouse models of disease.

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Suchitra Pandey, MD

Clinical Professor of Pathology (Blood Center)
Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Services, Stanford Blood Center

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Suchitra Pandey, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Pathology at Stanford Medicine. Her clinical focus encompasses Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine. In addition to diagnostic pathology, she contributes to transfusion medicine programs and patient-safety initiatives within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Pandey earned her MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, completed an Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at UC San Diego, and pursued a Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine fellowship at UCSF. She is board-certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine.

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Anil Panigrahi, MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pathology

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Anil K. Panigrahi, MD, PhD, FASA is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and, by courtesy, Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dual board-certified in Anesthesiology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, he maintains active clinical practice in both fields. He serves as Director of Patient Blood Management at Stanford Health Care, Chair of the Stanford Health Care Transfusion Committee, Medical Director of the Anesthesiology Perioperative Anemia Management Clinic, and Assistant Medical Director of the Stanford Health Care Transfusion Service. His academic and clinical leadership focuses on advancing perioperative blood management strategies to optimize outcomes in complex surgical patients.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University, Dr. Panigrahi received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was awarded the John G. Clark Prize for meritorious research. He completed residency training in Anesthesiology and fellowship in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine at Stanford University.

Dr. Panigrahi’s scholarly work spans immunology, transfusion safety, and patient blood management. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, textbook chapters, including for Miller’s Anesthesia and the AABB Technical Manual, and national guidelines. He contributes nationally through service on multiple committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB), and he is a frequent invited speaker at national and international meetings, including those of the ASA, AABB, and Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM).

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Tho Pham, MD

Clinical Professor of Pathology
Director of Clinical Pathology

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Tho Duc Pham, MD, Clinical Professor of Pathology at Stanford Medicine, specializes in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Transfusion Medicine, Blood Safety, and Emerging Infectious Disease. His clinical focus includes transfusion medicine and blood safety, with an emphasis on emerging infectious diseases. He earned his MD from the University of California, San Diego, and completed the Stanford Pathology Residency and Pathology Fellowship. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. He serves as Scientific Committee Chair of the California Blood Bank Society and as a member of AABB.

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