Patient Care - Patient Services' Physicians

Theresa A. Nester, M.D.

Professional Bio
Dr. Nester is the Associate Medical Director for the Puget Sound Blood Center. She serves as medical director of the centralized transfusion service and the Immunohematology reference laboratory. She is board-certified in transfusion medicine and has 15 years of experience covering therapeutic apheresis patients.

Patient Care Bio

• Consultant on all transfusion service and therapeutic apheresis issues.

Awards & Honors

• 1988: Phi Beta Kappa
• 1999: Associated Regional and University Pathologists (A.R.U.P.) Resident's Award for accomplishments while serving as assistant medical director over blood donor and
  apheresis services.
• 2005 and 2006: University of Washington Dept. of Laboratory Medicine Faculty of the Year for excellence in teaching.

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine
  Department of Laboratory Medicine
  University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Active Medical Staff Privileges
  University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
• Active Medical Staff privileges
  Seattle Childrens Hospital
• Associate Medical Director
  Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, WA
• Medical Director, Crossmatch and Red Cell Reference Laboratories
  Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, WA

Board Certified Specialties

• Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
• Transfusion Medicine

Education

• MD | Medicine | University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 1994
• BA | Chemistry | Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1988

Post-Doctoral Training & Residency

• July 1994 - July 1995
  Internal Medicine Intern
  Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY
• July 1995 - July 1999
  Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Resident
  University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• July 2000 - July 2001
  Transfusion Medicine Fellow
  University of Pittsburgh/ Institute for Transfusion Medicine
  Pittsburgh, PA