Goldman, Mindy
Research and/or Clinical Interests
Mindy Goldman’s interests include blood donor health and safety, deferral policies for donors, including men who have sex with men, transfusion transmissible diseases and bacterial contamination of blood components. Mindy's research Interests include: Blood donation, bacterial contamination of blood products, blood donor criteria and epidemiology of blood donation. and transfusion transmissible diseases. Her clinical interests include: Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, adverse transfusion reactions and immunohematology.
Brief Biography
Mindy Goldman is the medical director, donor and clinical services at Canadian Blood Services in Ottawa, Ontario. Mindy completed her medical degree at the University of Montreal and did subsequent training in internal medicine at McGill University in Montreal and hematology and transfusion medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She has over 25 years of experience working in transfusion medicine in Canada. Mindy is responsible for donor criteria and policies related to blood donors and immunohematology at Canadian Blood Services and is involved in epidemiology studies related to donor and recipient risk.
Additional information
- Member, AABB Donor Health and Safety Committee
- Member, AABB Hemovigilance Committee
- ISBT Regional Director representing North America
- Member, ISBT Haemovigilance Working Party
- Scientific member, BEST Collaborative
- Member, Alliance of Blood Operators Medical Group
- Research group member for several studies, Men who have sex with men research program
- Member of Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Transfusion Medicine group
- Editorial Board Member, Transfusion and Transfusion Clinique et Biologique journals
Contact information:
Canadian Blood Services
1800 Alta Vista Drive
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 4J5
Phone – 613-739-2577
Email: mindy.goldman@blood.ca