Suchitra Pandey MD

Dr. Suchi Pandey is originally from the Philadelphia area and received an MD from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She did her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of California, San Diego and completed a one-year Transfusion Medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco and Blood Centers of the Pacific. She is Board Certified in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology and in Transfusion Medicine.

Before joining the Stanford Blood Center team, Dr. Pandey spent eight years as the Medical Director/Chief Medical Officer at Blood Centers of the Pacific in San Francisco and two years as an Assistant Medical Director in the UCSF Transfusion Service. In these positions, Dr. Pandey gained invaluable experience working in a large community blood center and a complex hospital transfusion service.

Dr. Pandey is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Stanford Blood Center. She is currently also one of the Blood Center’s CLIA Lab Directors. She is also a co-chair of the Blood Center of California’s Medical Advisory Committee. She also serves on educational committees for ABC (Americas Blood Centers) and AABB. Pandey’s interests include donor health, transfusion medicine education, immunohematology, and expanding the Blood Center’s role in research initiatives.