Dr. M. Bharathi

• First position in BMT quiz competition held on 27th February 2022, at Regional Cancer Center, JIPMER.
• Secured 2 nd prize in BMT quiz held at JIPMER in 2021.

AABB – Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies

ISTM – Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine

ISBT – International Society of Blood Transfusion

• First author of the article titled “ Bharathi Muthu, Prabhu Manivannan, Murali Subbaiah, Shreya Vanju, Abhishekh Basavarajegowda, Effect of fetal distress on viability and yield of umbilical cord blood stem cells–a prospective comparative study, Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2024. ” doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2024.03.004
• Co-author of the article titled “Karnesh, sunil jai, M Bharathi (2023) Have we attended herd immunity against COVID? A crosssectional analytical study of seroprevalence among blood donors ”. doi: 10.4103/ajts.ajts_60_23.
• Muthu B, Basavarajegowda A, Subbaiah M, Manivannan P. Association of maternal and fetal factors with quality parameters of umbilical cord blood collected from mothers undergoing cesarean section. Asian Journal of Transfusion Science. 2025:10-4103.

• Transplantation Immunology Clinical Apheresis Cellular Therapy
• Trained adequately in the donor recruitment, donor screening, management of adverse donor reactions and post-donation counselling.
• Immuno-hematology, including workup of patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hemolytic disease of new born, blood grouping discrepancies and compatibility testing.
• Trained in carrying out serological investigations for Transfusion Transmitted infection by manual and automated systems.
• Quality control of blood components, reagents, TTI testing and cold chain maintenance.
• Apheresis: Plateletpheresis for donors, Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), Therapeutic leukapheresis, Erythracytapheresis, Therapeutic Thrombocytapheresis and Stem cell pheresis.
• Trained in decision making of blood component therapy and administration
• Trained in blood administration in special settings like massive transfusion, exchange transfusion and also in identification, investigation and management of adverse transfusion reactions in patients.
• Trained in hematopoetic stem cell harvest, administration and cryopreservation and blood component therapy.
• Trained in basic techniques of hematology and coagulation, in the Department of Pathology, JIPMER
• Well-exposed in operating manual and automated ELISA workstation, automated blood grouping and cross-matching machine.
• Trained in the administration aspect of a Transfusion Medicine centre.
• Delivered lectures regarding blood donation awareness and attended blood donation camps