Susan Roseff, MD

Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology; Chair of Clinical Pathology Division

Susan Roseff, MD Division Chair, Clinical Pathology Harry P. Dalton Professor in Clinical Pathology Medical Director, Apheresis

Department: Pathology

Phone: (804) 828-0255

Fax: (804) 828-6156

Email: Susan.Roseff@vcuhealth.org

Susan Roseff, MD, is Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology. She is also the Chair of the Division of Clinical Pathology, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. She is Director of Apheresis, since July 2012. In 2019, she was named the Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology. Prior to these appointments, she was the Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine at the VCU Health System beginning in 2000. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Premier Health Plan of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. Prior, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority, where she also served as the Board’s Secretary and as a member of the Executive Committee. Before joining VCU/VCUHS, she worked for the American Red Cross Biomedical Services, beginning in 1993, serving as the Medical Director or Chief Medical Officer in regional blood services in Nashville, Tennessee, Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Roseff received her undergraduate degree at Brown University and attended medical school at Albany Medical College. After completing an internship in pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center, she trained in Clinical Pathology at George Washington University Medical Center. She completed her Transfusion Medicine Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the American Red Cross.

Dr. Roseff’s major interests in Transfusion Medicine are pediatric/neonatal transfusion medicine, as well as blood management. She is also interested in the treatment of patients with sickle cell disease and has been a co-investigator on two federally funded sickle cell research projects. As the Chair of the Division of Clinical Pathology, she has become involved in projects looking at sample volume, lab utilization and reference test utilization.

Dr. Roseff has a passion for education and has an active role in the Department, Medical Center, School of Medicine, and as an invited lecturer/course director at both regional and national meetings. She had leadership roles in the Department’s Pathology Resident Training Program and in the school of medicine, as a co-course director in the first Marrow course. She has also served a role in implementing the new medical school curriculum and is a Course Master for the “Marrow and Movement” block of the new school of medicine curriculum. In 2006, Dr. Roseff was awarded with the Department of Pathology's Saul Kay Award. This award is presented by the graduating residents to a faculty member who is uniquely dedicated and effective in resident teaching. In October 2014, she was awarded the Enrique Gerszten Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the VCU School of Medicine’s highest teaching award.

Dr. Roseff has served in leadership positions in a variety of national and international professional organizations. She is currently a member of CAP’s Economic Affairs Committee, in the Payment Policy Sub-committee and CAP’s Wellness Committee. She served on the American Board of Pathology’s Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking Test Development and Advisory Committee for 16 years. She has served as the secretary of the AABB’s Board of Directors, the Chair of the AABB’s Standards Program Unit and as AABB’s liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability. In addition, she was a member of the College of American Pathologist’s Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee from 2006 to 2011. She also served as a member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability from 2005 to 2008. In September 2012, she was invited to be a temporary voting member of the Blood Products Advisory Committee to the FDA for the topics “Octapharm” and “Point of Issue Testing of Platelet Components for Bacterial Contamination.” She has also served as a committee chairs for ASFA (American Society for Apheresis) and the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathology). She is Board Certified in Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking by the American Board of Pathology.

Clinical Specialties: Pediatric Transfusion Therapy, Clinical Apheresis, Blood Component Therapy, Immunohematology, Sickle Cell Disease, Patient Blood Management and Laboratory Test Utilization

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Education

Residency - Department of Pathology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
Internship - Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Medical Education - MD, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York
Post-baccalaureate student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
PA AB (Biology) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses
Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
Board Certifications
American Board of Pathology
Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking, 1994
Clinical Pathology, 1992
National Board of Medical Examiners Diplomate, 1987

Selected Awards & Honors

2024 Richmond Top Docs – Pathology, Richmond Magazine, Richmond, Virginia
2024 Virginia Top Docs – Pathology, Virginia Business
2023 Richmond Top Docs – Pathology, Richmond Magazine, Richmond, Virginia
2017 Outstanding Teacher Award (Excellence in Leadership). School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, (Pre-Clinical Division Director, Applied Medical Sciences), 2016-2017, Class of 2020.
2017 Outstanding Teacher Award (Best Teacher). School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, (Applied Medical Sciences, Marrow, 2016-2017.)
2014 Enrique Gerszten, M.D. Faculty Teaching Excellence Award is none other than our The Faculty Excellence Award is the School of Medicine's highest recognition for teaching.
2006 The Saul Kay Award, Department of Pathology, presented by the graduating residents to a faculty member who is uniquely dedicated and effective in resident teaching.

Recent Grants and Funding

NHLBI - 1UG3 HL143192-01A1 - Sickle Cell Disease and CardiovAscular Risk –Red cell Exchange Trial (SCD-CARRE) PIs – Gladwin, MT and Triulzi, DJ Local Co-PI (with Wally Smith, MD), 5% salary support April 29 2020 – present

5U10HL083732-03 Virginia Commonwealth University Sickle Cell Disease
Research Network Project - PI - Smith, Wally R National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DHHS, 4/1/06 – 3/31/11,
$1,098,793 $537,181 $1,635,974, co-investigator, 5% effort, network

5R01HL64122-03 - Pain in Sickle Cell Epidemiologic Study, PI - Wally R Smith MD National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DH HS, 9/11/01 – 8/31/06,
$ 1,501,593 $ 629,071$ 2,130,664, Co-investigator 3% effort

Editorial Advisory Boards

January 2018 - present Member, Editorial Board, Transfusion, Journal of AABB

Professional Service (outside)

Dr. Roseff has served in leadership positions in a variety of national and international professional organizations. She was a member of the American Board of Pathology’s Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking Test Development and
Advisory Committee for 16 years. She has served as the secretary of the AABB’s Board of Directors, the Chair of the AABB’s Standards Program Unit and as AABB’s liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability. In addition, she was a member of the College of American Pathologist’s Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee from 2006 – 2011. She also served as a member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability from 2005-
2008. In September 2012, Dr. Roseff was invited to be a temporary voting member of the Blood Products Advisory Committee to the FDA for the topics “Octapharm” and “Point of Issue Testing of Platelet Components for Bacterial Contamination.” She has also served as a committee chairs for ASFA (American Society for Apheresis) and the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathology). Currently, she serves on the Economic Affairs Committee and Payment Practice subcommittee for the College of American Pathologists (CAP). She is also a member of the Diversity,
Equity, Inclusion committee of the Associated Chairs of Pathology. Dr. Roseff is Board Certified in Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking by the American Board of Pathology.

VCU Service
Chair/Co-Chair: 07-01-2001 - Present. Lecturer, School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 1 ½ hours lecture on pediatric transfusion therapy every spring.

Chair/Co-Chair: 07-01-2000 - Present. M4 electives, approximately 1 hour, 4 times/year, MEDI M423. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Facilitator: 01-01-2000 - Present. Attending Physician, Transfusion Medicine, including Blood Bank and Apheresis

Recent Invited Presentations

Regional
Discovery Series RVA: Everything you need to know about COVID-19. Invited
panelist; 9-23-2020; on Zoom, moderated by Dr. Peter Buckley.

Discovery Series Williamsburg: Everything you need to know about COVID-19.
Invited panelist; 9-23-2020; on Zoom, moderated by Dr. Peter Buckley.

Invited Grand Rounds

Changes in the landscape of healthcare; the vision for academic pathology.
Department of Pathology, Penn State Health, Hershey, PA. March 30, 2017.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Papers

Ferlis M, Lipato T, Roseff SD, Smith WR. Urgent use of voxelotor in sickle cell disease when urgent transfusion is not safe. Eur J Haematol. 2022; 2022:109(5):586-9.

O’Brien KL, Shainker SA, Callum J, Chmait RH, Ladhani NNN, Lin Y, Roseff SD, Shamshirsaz AA, Uhl L, Haspel RL. Primum, non nocere: Whole blood, prehospital transfusion, and anti-D hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn.
Transfusion 2023;63(1): 249-56.

Do M, Sanford K, Roseff S, Hovaguimian A, Besche H, Fischer K. Gamified versus non-gamified online educational modules for teaching clinical laboratory medicine to first-year medical students at a large allopathic medical school in
the United States. BMC Med Educ. 2023;14(23):12909-23.

O’Leary MF, Saint Martin C, Berg MP, Sahiyamoorthy S, Roseff SD, Fung MK, Auerbach A, Barclift DP, Yorke, R, Christensen BB, Cohen MB. Unwell: Results from the College of American Pathologists 2022 Pathologist Wellness Survey.
Arch Path. 2023. Accepted pending revision.

Book Chapters and Monographs

Roseff SD, and Wong E (eds.) Pediatric Transfusion: A Physician’s Handbook. 5th ed. Bethesda: AABB; Oct 2020.

Chapters

Roseff, SD, Sickle cell disease, CAP Transfusion Medicine TMRC book. Ed. Hudgins J, Karafin M, Karp J, Schwartz J. College of American Pathologists. 2020.

Posters/Abstracts

Routine Use of Serum Ammonia Level As Diagnostic Work Up of Hepatic Encephalopathy is Common but Does Not Impact Clinical Care. Kumral D,Roseff SD, Siddiqui MS. 2018 Annual Meeting of American Gastroenterological
Association, DDW in Washington, DC.

Unwell: Results from the College of American Pathologists 2022 pathologist wellness survey. Saint Martin MC, O’Leary MF, Berg MP, Sathiyamoorthy S, Vernon LJ, Roseff SD, Auerbach A, Peker Barclift D, Yorke RJ, Zhai QJ, Christensen V, Cohen MB. 2023 Annual Meeting of the College of American Pathologists in Chicago, IL.