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Speaker Details

James Atkins QA Specialist NIH Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) Frederick, MD USA


J. Wade. Atkins earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Pfeiffer College in 1987 and was awarded a second degree in Medical Technology in 1988 after completing the rigorous program at Charlotte Memorial Hospital in North Carolina.

He successfully challenged the American Society of Clinical Pathologist Specialist in Blood Banking exam in 1995. He earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Maryland University College in 1998.

 

For the last nineteen years he has worked as a quality assurance and regulatory specialist for the Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. He is the current supervisor of a team of five quality specialists. The DTM is a full service blood bank with a licensed collection facility and a full transfusion service.

 

He often speaks at local, national and international meetings on quality and regulatory related topics for biological products.