Jay S. Raval

Jay S. Raval

Jay S. Raval
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Biography

Dr. Raval did his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during which time he was a Howard Holderness Distinguished Medical Scholar. He proceeded to complete a Surgery internship and Clinical Pathology residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and followed this with Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine fellowship training at the joint program between the University of Pittsburgh and The Institute for Transfusion Medicine. Dr. Raval joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Pathology in Pittsburgh for one year before moving back to the University of North Carolina where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Medical Director of Therapeutic Apheresis.

Research Interest

Evidence-based therapeutic apheresis and transfusion medicine practices; therapeutic apheresis in transplantation; thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; red blood cell storage lesion; synthetic oxygen carrier development; hematopoietic progenitor cell collection and processing; pathology education; pathology informatics.