Blood Donation Initiative at DGSOM

Mission: With a team of medical students, we seek to organize and publicize blood drives at DGSOM and create a long-lasting partnership between the DGSOM students and the UCLA blood donation center. About us: The DGSOM Blood Donation Initiative was created to establish multi-annual blood drives at DGSOM in collaboration with interprofessional colleagues across the dental, nursing, and undergraduate UCLA campuses, provide medical students with shadowing and research opportunities within laboratory medicine, provide students with exposure and experience in pathology medicine, and provide opportunities for teaching pre-medical students about blood transfusion medicine. The DGSOM Blood Donation Initiative (DGSOM BDI) is dedicated to increasing blood donations in support of our local healthcare system. Through annual blood drives, medical students will have the opportunity to collaborate and work in conjunction with the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center. Furthermore, DGSOM BDI aims to provide medical students with opportunities to learn about laboratory medicine, research, and the end-to-end blood donation process via interactions with faculty and residents at UCLA.

cbsebastian@mednet.ucla.edu

Signatories: Caitlin Sebastian, Emanuil Parunakian, and Aboubacar Cherif

Advisor: Pamela R Cysner