Jennifer Andrews, MD, MSc

Jennifer Andrews, MD, MSc  

Dr. Andrews joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2018 where she serves as the Medical Director of the Blood Bank. She started her career at Stanford University as a faculty member in both Pathology (Transfusion Medicine) and Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology), and successfully built a Pediatric Transfusion Medicine Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She has served as the PI for multiple clinical trials, including a multi-site trial for fibrinogen concentrate use in neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass surgeries. She continues to see pediatric hematology patients and has received many awards for her teaching, including Best Lecture at Stanford University in 2014 and the Junior Faculty Teaching Award for the Clinical Pathology faculty at Stanford in 2018.  Her research interests include utilizing technology for best practices for ordering blood and laboratory tests in children, patient blood management & blood utilization (especially for children), and multi-site clinical trials work for safer blood products and laboratory testing for children.