Elena Nedelcu, MD
Professor
Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine

She earned her medical degree at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania and completed post-doctoral research in ex vivo expansion of cord blood cells and in utero transplantation of ontogenically diverse stem cells at a biotechnology company and University of California, San Diego. Dr. Nedelcu is board certified in Clinical Pathology, Hematology-Pathology and Transfusion Medicine and serves in AABB Global Transfusion Forum, Education Committee, The Blood Project Advisory Board, and the quality working group of the International Society for Blood Transfusion. She completed Clinical Pathology training at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Hematopathology and Cellular Therapy fellowships at UC Davis, and Transfusion Medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

At UCSF, she is the medical director of the UCSF Berkeley Cancer Center Laboratory, co-director and assistant medical director of the Transfusion Services at Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and UCSF Medical Center, respectively. Dr. Nedelcu is the program director of the Herbert Perkins Cellular Therapy and Transfusion Medicine fellowship, and co-director of the Transfusion Medicine Elective and the Cellular Therapy Elective for the 4th year UCSF medical students.

Prior to coming to UCSF, she was Assistant Professor in Hematology-Pathology, Transfusion Medicine and Clinical Immunology at University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston where she also served as the Quality Chief Officer for the Clinical Pathology division and was part of the team who established the Hemotherapy clinical service.

She is passionate about bringing forth education about blood as a diagnostic and therapy tool to underserved and minority students and is part of UCSF Program for Investigation and Training for Careers in Healthcare (PITCH) and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) Summer Student Research Program (SSRP).

• Global survey of transfusion medicine curricula in medical schools: Challenges and opportunities.
  Transfusion 2020 Al-Riyami AZ, Louw VJ, Indrikovs AJ, Nedelcu E, Bakhtary S, Eichbaum QG, Smit Sibinga CT, Education Subcommittee of the AABB Global Transfusion Forum
• Overtransfusion of Autologous Blood Identifies Opportunities for Improving Patient Blood Management.
  Cureus 2019 Perez A, Bakhtary S, Nedelcu E, Manuel S
• Quality Improvement in Transfusion Practice of Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Reduces Blood Utilization, Length of Hospital Stay, and Cost.
  American journal of clinical pathology 2019 Nedelcu E, Wright MF, Karp S, Cook M, Barbu O, Eichbaum Q
• PIFA PLUSS P4 Assay for Screening of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia.
  Laboratory medicine 2019 Compton FB, Alrabeh R, Nguyen LQ, Nedelcu E, Wahed A, Nguyen ND
• Acute autoimmune hemolytic anemia due to anti-Ena autoantibody successfully treated with rituximab.
  Transfusion 2017 Nedelcu E, Desai M, Green J, Bensing KM, Turner A, Head D, Young PP
• Short-Term Experience with Off-Pump Versus On-Pump Implantation of the HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device.
  ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) 2017 Gregoric ID, Radovancevic R, Akay MH, Jezovnik MK, Nathan S, Patel M, Patel JA, Nedelcu E, Nguyen ND, Loyalka P, Kar B
• Bioinformatics Analysis to Determine Prognostic Mutations of 72 de novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cases from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) with 23 Most Common Mutations and no Abnormal Cytogenetics.
  Annals of clinical and laboratory science 2015 Welsh KJ, Nedelcu E, Wahed A, Bai Y, Dasgupta A, Nguyen A
• Post-operative bleeding risk stratification in cardiac pulmonary bypass patients using artificial neural network.
  Annals of clinical and laboratory science 2015 Huang RS, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Tint H, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyalka P, Nathan S, Radovancevic R, Nguyen AN
• How do we manage cardiopulmonary bypass coagulopathy?
  Transfusion 2014 Welsh KJ, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Tint H, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyalka P, Nathan S, Loubser P, Weeks PA, Radovancevic R, Nguyen AN
• Mobile computing platform with decision support modules for hemotherapy.
  American journal of clinical pathology 2014 Huang RS, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyalka P, Nathan S, Loubser P, Weeks PA, Radovancevic R, Nguyen AN
• Clinical and serological responses following plasmapheresis in bullous pemphigoid: two case reports and a review of the literature.
  Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue 2014 Chang B, Tholpady A, Huang RS, Nedelcu E, Bai Y
• Interpretation of coagulation test results using a web-based reporting system.
  Laboratory medicine 2014 Quesada AE, Jabcuga CE, Nguyen A, Wahed A, Nedelcu E, Nguyen AN
• Comparison between 1-needle technique versus 2-needle technique for bone marrow aspiration and biopsy procedures.
  Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2013 Al-Ibraheemi A, Pham T, Chen L, Syklawer E, Quesada A, Wahed A, Nedelcu E, Nguyen AN
• Exclusive use of acid citrate dextrose for anticoagulation during extracorporeal photopheresis in patients with contraindications to heparin: an effective protocol.
  Journal of clinical apheresis 2008 Nedelcu E, Ziman A, Fernando LP, Cook K, Bumerts P, Schiller G
• Standardized protocol to identify high-risk patients undergoing therapeutic apheresis procedures.
  Journal of clinical apheresis 2008 Lu Q, Nedelcu E, Ziman A, Bumerts P, Fernando L, Schiller G
• Thrombopoietin enhances generation of CD34+ cells from human embryonic stem cells.
  Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 2007 Srivastava AS, Nedelcu E, Esmaeli-Azad B, Mishra R, Carrier E
• Chimerism and tolerance post-in utero transplantation with embryonic stem cells.
  Transplantation 2004 Moustafa ME, Srivastava AS, Nedelcu E, Donahue J, Gueorguieva I, Shenouda SS, Minev B, Carrier E