W. John Judd, F.I.B.M.S., M.I.BIOL.
Professor
Director
of the Blood Bank Reference Laboratory
Campus Address:
BLOOD BANK 2F225 AGH 0054
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0054
Phone: 734/936-6776
johnjudd@umich.edu
Annual Report | Biography | Clinical Interests | Research Interests
Departmental Annnual Report
Brief Biography
W. John Judd, Professor of Immunohematology, studied at Sir John Cass College, London, England, from 1967-1969, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences in 1972, and was elected a Member of the Institute of Biology in 1981.
Professor Judd came to the University of Michigan Pathology Department in 1974 as Director of the Blood Bank Reference Laboratory, one of the few transfusion service reference laboratories in the country that is accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). He currently serves as Associate Director for Special Immunohematology in the Blood Bank and Transfusion Service, University of Michigan Hospitals. His teaching responsibilities include the coordination of the weekly Anatomic Pathology Conferences, Clinical Pathology Grand Rounds and Clinical Pathology Case Study Conferences. He also directs the educational activities of house-officers during their rotations on the transfusion service.
In addition to his book, Methods in Immunohematology,(edition 2, 1994) Professor Judd has over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and text books, and serves on the Editorial Board for Transfusion He is an active member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), having served on their Board of Directors from 1989-1993, and of the Michigan Association of Blood Banks (MABB). He is the 1982 recipient of the Ivor Dunsford Award AABB, and a Past-President of the MABB. He is a member of He also serves as the Program Director of the annual "Current Topics in Blood Banking Symposium, " now in its 26th year. Professor Judd's clinical and research interests are in the streamlining and automation of pretransfusion, testing and the genetics and serology of human blood group systems.
Clinical Interests
Pathology, Immunohematology Reference, immune mechanisms
of hemolysis, hemolytic disease of the newborn, drug-induced cytopenias,
immune hemolytic anemias; adverse reactions to blood transfusion
Research Interests
Human blood groups--molecular biology, genetics; disease associations