Ryan A. Metcalf, MD, CQA

Dr. Metcalf is Section Chief of Transfusion Medicine, Medical Director of the Transfusion Service, Associate Professor of Pathology, and Inpatient Chief Value Officer for the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah Health and ARUP Laboratories. He completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at Stanford University and is board certified in these disciplines. He also has expertise in quality management and is a Certified Quality Auditor.

Dr. Metcalf practices transfusion medicine and his specific interests include data-driven/informatics approaches to patient blood management, quality management, and innovation. He was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Washington where he helped build a new FDA-registered hospital-based transfusion service laboratory. He was recruited to the University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories in 2017. His research interests include the use of machine learning to predict patient blood management outcomes, data visualization to identify root causes from complex clinical data, and data-driven approaches to improve our understanding of risks associated with blood transfusion.

Dr. Metcalf is Chair-Elect of the AABB Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee, a member of the AABB Patient Blood Management Standards Committee, and a member of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Transfusion, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Committee. He is also active in Transfusion Medicine education and received the department's Outstanding Teaching Award for Clinical Pathology faculty in 2020.