Meet The BBGuy Team!
Not just one "guy" anymore...
In 1998, a pathologist named Joe Chaffin started a web site that he named "The Blood Bank Guy," trying to figure out how to use the internet to help pathology residents learn the essentials of transfusion medicine. Now, thousands of virtual blood bank students later, Dr. Chaffin has added two new collaborators!
Tuan Le, MD and Monica LaSarre MT(ASCP)SBB joined the BBGuy team in May 2011. They will help take the site in new directions, expanding the educational content to apply to even more students of transfusion medicine. Our intent is to be a better, more up-to-date resource for a broader audience.
Dr. Chaffin says: "Hey, don't misunderstand! I am not going anywhere! I love working on this site and I love teaching people about basic transfusion medicine! That has not and will not change. However, Monica and Tuan can work with me to help keep the site more up to date, as well as add new material in keeping with their various interests and skills. Monica is an immunohematology expert, and her initial focus will be updating the existing content on the site with that knowledge. She will also be adding new content, including some that I expect to be very helpful to MT and SBB students. Tuan is a gifted teacher who has an enormous amount of useful information rattling around in that giant brain of his! He will be revising and expanding the quiz area to start, and will soon be developing educational modules of his own."
Before you ask, the answer is, "No, we are not changing the name of the site!" We understand that the name doesn't make as much sense now that two guys and one "non-guy" are in charge (as if it ever made that much sense anyway!). However, so many people know the site as it is that we think it would be stupid to change the name! And yes, Tuan and I think that Monica is OK with that!