Waseem Anani

Waseem Anani, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital

Salt Lake City
801-646-8000

University of Utah Hospital

Pathology
Salt Lake City
801-581-2507

  • Specialties

    • Pathology

    Board Certification

    American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)
    American Board of Pathology (Sub: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine)

  • Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pathology -Primary
    Board Certification
    American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)
    American Board of Pathology (Sub: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine)

    Education history

    Fellowship Transfusion Medicine - Medical College of Wisconsin Fellow
    Clinical Pathology - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - Penn State College of Medicine M.D.
    Anthropology/Geology - University of Michigan B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Cancelas JA, Genthe JR, Stolla M, Rugg N, Bailey SL, Nestheide S, Shaz B, Mack S, Schroeder K, Anani W, Szczepiorkowski ZM, Dumont LJ, Yegneswaran S, Corash L, Mufti N, Benjamin RJ, Erickson AC (2022). Evaluation of amotosalen and UVA pathogen-reduced apheresis platelets after 7-day storage. Transfusion, 62(8), 1619-1629.
    2. Kron A, Del Giudice ME, Sholzberg M, Callum J, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Swarup V, Huang M, Distefano L, Anani W, Skeate R, Armali C, Lin Y (2022). Daily versus every other day oral iron supplementation in patients with iron deficiency anemia (DEODO): study protocol for a phase 3 multicentered, pragmatic, open-label, pilot randomized controlled trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud, 8(1), 98. (Read full article)
    3. Zieger B, Boeckelmann D, Anani W, Falet H, Zhu J, Glonnegger H, Full H, Andresen F, Erlacher M, Lausch E, Fels S, Strahm B, Lang P, Hoffmeister KM (2022). Novel GNE Gene Variants Associated with Severe Congenital Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Sialylation Defect. Thromb Haemost. (Read full article)
    4. Bercovitz RS, Drew CS, Bushee CL, Popovsky MA, Friedman KD, Anani WQ (2020). A microfluidic analysis of thrombus formation in reconstituted whole blood samples comparing spray-dried plasma versus fresh frozen plasma. Vox Sang, 116(5), 540-546. (Read full article)
    5. Anani WQ, Gottschall J, Denomme GA (2021). Red cell genotyping of rare blood donors: donation behaviour and data visualization. Vox Sang, 116(5), 601-608. (Read full article)
    6. Jug R, Anani W, Callum J (2021). A possible case of recipient anti-neutrophil and anti-human leukocyte antigen antibody-mediated fatal reverse transfusion-related acute lung injury. Transfusion, 61(4), 1336-1340. (Read full article)
    7. Lapadat R, Anani WQ, Bensing KM, Aeschlimann J, Vege S, Lomas-Francis C, Westhoff CM, Fadeyi EA, Denomme GA (2021). A pair of S-silencing single nucleotide variants cis-linked on GYPB. Transfusion, 61(4), E34-E36. (Read full article)
    8. Ashwood HE, Ashwood C, Schmidt AP, Gundry RL, Hoffmeister KM, Anani WQ (2020). Characterization and statistical modeling of glycosylation changes in sickle cell disease. Blood Adv, 5(5), 1463-1473. (Read full article)
    9. Anani WQ, Ashwood HE, Schmidt A, Burns RT, Denomme GA, Hoffmeister KM (2020). Predictive modeling of complex ABO glycan phenotypes by lectin microarrays. Blood Adv, 4(16), 3960-3970. (Read full article)
    10. Anani WQ, Gorlin J, Denomme GA (2020). Anti-D selection for D assignment among pregnant women and blood donors: impact of the Crawford antigen. Transfusion, 60(7), 1378-1380. (Read full article)
    11. Pandey P, Anani WQ, Pugh T, Gottschall JL, Denomme GA (2020). Complement activating ABO anti-A IgM/IgG act synergistically to cause erythrophagocytosis: implications among minor ABO incompatible transfusions. J Transl Med, 18(1), 216. (Read full article)
    12. Denomme GA, Reinders S, Bensing KM, Piefer C, Schanen M, Curnes J, Treml A, Gottschall JL, Anani WQ (2020). Use of a cloud-based search engine of a centralized donor database to identify historical antigen-negative units in hospital inventories. Transfusion, 60(2), 417-423. (Read full article)
    13. Knier M, Schanen M, Piefer C, Bensing KM, Marchan M, Anani WQ, Denomme GA (2020). How to use a cloud-based search engine of a centralized donor database to identify historical antigen-negative units in hospital inventories. Transfusion, 60(2), 414-416. (Read full article)
    14. Yazer MH, Anani WQ, Denomme GA, Karafin MS, Sayers M, Shaz BH, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion BEST Collaborative (2017). Trends in antigen-negative red blood cell distributions by racial or ethnic groups in the United States. Transfusion, 58(1), 145-150. (Read full article)
    15. Pandey P, Anani WQ, Gottschall JL, Denomme GA (2017). Potential impact of complement regulator deficiencies on hemolytic reactions due to minor ABO-mismatched transfusions. Blood Adv, 1(23), 1977-1982. (Read full article)
    16. Anani WQ, Marchan MG, Bensing KM, Schanen M, Piefer C, Gottschall JL, Denomme GA (2017). Practical approaches and costs for provisioning safe transfusions during anti-CD38 therapy. Transfusion, 57(6), 1470-1479. (Read full article)
    17. Anani WQ, Duffer K, Kaufman RM, Denomme GA (2017). How do I work up pretransfusion samples containing anti-CD38? Transfusion, 57(6), 1337-1342. (Read full article)
    18. Anani W, Wucinski J, Baumann Kreuziger L, Gottschall J, Karafin M (2016). Therapeutic plasma exchange in refractory warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Transfusion, 57(6), 1336. (Read full article)
    19. Anani WQ, Yassai MB, Bensing KM, Denomme GA (2017). Molecular characterization of three novel weak D type alleles with additional haplotype data on weak D Types 1.2 and 18. Transfusion, 57(4), 1092-1093. (Read full article)
    20. Anani WQ, Zeevi A, Lunz JG (2016). EDTA Treatment of Serum Unmasks Complement-Mediated Prozone Inhibition in Human Leukocyte Antigen Antibody Testing. Am J Clin Pathol, 146(3), 346-52. (Read full article)
    21. Anani WQ, Ojerholm E, Shurin MR (2015). Resolving Transferrin Isoforms via Agarose Gel Electrophoresis. Lab Med, 46(1), 26-33. (Read full article)
    22. Anani W, Triulzi D, Yazer MH, Qu L (2014). Relative IgA-deficient recipients have an increased risk of severe allergic transfusion reactions. Vox Sang, 107(4), 389-92. (Read full article)
    23. Anani W, Amin M, Pantanowitz L, Parwani AV (2013). A series of collision tumors in the genitourinary tract with a review of the literature. Pathol Res Pract, 210(4), 217-23. (Read full article)
    24. Anani W, Bruggeman R, Zander DS (2011). β-catenin expression in benign and malignant pleural disorders. Int J Clin Exp Pathol, 4(8), 742-7. (Read full article)
    25. Kalyani D, Dick A, Anani W, Sanford M (2006). Scope and Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Directed C-H Bond Halogenation Reactions. Tetrahedron, 62(49), 11483-11498.
    26. Kalyani D, Dick AR, Anani WQ, Sanford MS (2006). A simple catalytic method for the regioselective halogenation of arenes. Org Lett, 8(12), 2523-6. (Read full article)
    27. Hull KL, Anani WQ, Sanford MS (2006). Palladium-catalyzed fluorination of carbon-hydrogen bonds. J Am Chem Soc, 128(22), 7134-5. (Read full article)

    Review

    1. Denomme GA, Anani WQ (2019). Mass-scale red cell genotyping of blood donors: from data visualization to historical antigen labeling and donor recruitment. [Review]. Transfusion, 59(9), 2768-2770. (Read full article)
    2. Denomme GA, Anani WQ, Avent ND, Bein G, Briggs LB, Lapadat RC, Montemayor C, Rios M, St-Louis M, Uhl L, Wendel S, Flegel WA (2017). Red cell genotyping precision medicine: a conference summary. [Review]. Ther Adv Hematol, 8(10), 277-291. (Read full article)
    3. Anani W, Shurin MR (2017). Targeting Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Cancer. [Review]. Adv Exp Med Biol, 1036, 105-128. (Read full article)

    Case Report

    1. Anani W, Dobrozsi S, Punzalan R (2019). Identification of Peanut allergen in a transfused blood product causing transfusion associated anaphylaxis. Transfusion, 60(5), 1108-1109. (Read full article)
    2. Anani WQ, Smith GP, Irani M, Puca KE (2017). A report of cerebral malaria treated with automated red blood cell exchange. Transfusion, 57(4), 985-988. (Read full article)
    3. Anani W, Fox C, Peck Palmer OM (2015). A 72-year-old woman with markedly increased ferritin. Clin Chem, 61(3), 561-2. (Read full article)

    Editorial

    1. Denomme GA, Anani WQ (2020). ABO titers: harmonization and identifying clinically relevant ABO antibodies. Transfusion, 60(3), 441-443. (Read full article)

    Abstract

    1. Anani W, Schmidt A, Denomme G, Hoffmeister K (2019). Hemolytic anti ABO antibodies (hemolysins) in transplant patients have a broader IgM and restricted IgG glycan recognition repertoire [Abstract]. 29, 886-994.

    Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast

    1. Anani W, Chu, C, Oury T (2014). A 30-year-old Male with a Right Corneal Abrasion [Web]. University of Pittsburgh Clinical Pathology Case of the Month. Available: http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case843.html.
    2. Anani W, Parwani A (2013). A 21-year-old Female with a Bladder Mass [Web]. University of Pittsburgh Anatomic Pathology Case of the Month. Available: http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case776.html.
    3. Anani W, Hariri R (2013). Microbiology Webcase [Web]. University of Pittsburgh Clinical Pathology Case of the Month. Available: http://path.upmc.edu/casemonth/cp-casemonth.html.
    4. Anani W, Adams J, Berkey F (2010). Churg Strauss [Web]. PEPID Primary Care Plus. Available: http://www.pepid.com/authors/CRC.asp.
    5. Anani W, Myers P (2006). Thylogale stigmatica [Web]. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan. Available: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Thylogale_stigmatica/.

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