Glenbrooke News

TELMAS, Tell Me A Story, will meet  on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, at 6:00 PM in the Arbour Lodge.  Dr. Paul Holland will tell us about, “Alaska, Salmon, and a Blood-Banker”.  Paul was CEO and Director for many years of BloodSource, the regional collector of blood and plasma, and is now an international speaker at medical gatherings about blood-borne pathogens.  In this story, he will unify some diverse elements into a story of brilliant people, nature, and the search for better health.  Paul will use some of his own excellent photographs and an interesting, understandable speaking style in his presentation to us.  Refreshments will be provided.

Dr. Holland also serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Pathology Department at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center (UCDMC). Additionally he is the Scientific Director of Delta Blood Bank in Stockton, CA. Dr. Holland continues to be involved in research activities related to TRALI (transfusion related acute lung injury) as well as other transfusion-associated complications, and transfusion-transmitted infections.

Dr. Holland was the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Sacramento Medical Foundation Blood Center (currently doing business as BloodSource) from 1983 to 2004. Dr. Holland started his career at the NIH Blood Bank Department in 1963, where he spent 20 years with this government organization, including nine years as Chief of the Blood Bank Department. Dr. Holland has more than 250 published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books. He has served on multiple committees for theAmerican Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and NIH, and has been an advisor to various U.S. government committees and agencies.

As a consultant, Dr. Holland has aided numerous biotechnology companies, foreign governments and international organizations, among them the World Health Organization (WHO) that assists blood banks in third-world countries. Dr. Holland served two years as President of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT). He has been a nominating committee member for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for three years. Dr. Holland is the recipient of numerous honors, including being an ISBT Lifetime Honorary Member and three awards from the AABB. In 2009, he will receive the Susan Leden Memorial Award from the California Blood Bank Society (CBBS).

Dr. Holland received his BA in zoology at the University of California, Riverside, in 1958 followed by his MD at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1962. In addition, he has performed post-graduate work in immunology, immunochemistry, genetics and virology at the NIH Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences and completed his internal medicine residency at UCSF. Dr. Holland currently resides in Walnut Creek, Calif., with his wife of 46 years. He has four children and six grandchildren. He enjoys tennis and photography.