Dr Amanda Davis
Dr Amanda Davis is a haematologist and transfusion specialist at The Alfred. She manages complex adult patients with hereditary and acquired bleeding disorders through the Ronald Sawers Haemophilia Treatment Centre as well as patients with thrombotic disorders and patients with a variety of other haematological conditions. She also works in the diagnostic haematology laboratory at The Alfred.
Dr Davis Chairs the hospital Transfusion Committee as well as Chairing the Victorian Haemovigilance Program – Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting System (STIR). She completed her medical degree with honours at Monash University in 1996 and acquired a dual fellowship in Clinical and Laboratory Haematology in 2005. She then undertook a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston with a research focus on investigating vascular binding partners of ADAMTS13, an important regulator of von Willebrand factor size and function and a critical contributor to the pathogenesis of inherited and acquired forms of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
An additional research focus is on acquired platelet disorders associated with implantable devices such as LVAD and ECMO. Dr Davis is involved in teaching undergraduates as well as supervising advanced trainees in haematology through the Royal Australian College of Physicians and the Royal Collage of Pathologists. Dr Davis has co-authored 28 peer reviewed papers in journals including 2 research papers in the premier haematology journal, Blood as well as Science Advances, Transfusion and senior author publications in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.