Dr. Chelsea Tooke-Barr is a transplant to the Capital District. She is board certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology, with subspecialty training in transfusion medicine/blood banking. Prior to joining Albany Med in the fall of 2019, she practiced general pathology in the community practice setting.

Her areas of interest include pediatric and perinatal transfusion, transfusion management of the platelet refractory patient, massive transfusion in trauma, emerging transfusion-transmitted infections, and transfusion medicine education.

Selected Recent Publications:

van de Meer PF, Wong J, Ismay S, Keller A, Pink J, Buchta C, Compernolle V, Wendel S, Biagini S, Scurocchio P,Thibault L, Germain M, Georgsen J, Begue S, Dernis D, Raspollini E, Villa S, Rebulla P, Takahashi M, de Kort D, Lozano M, Cid J, Gulliksson H, Cardigan R, Tooke C, Fung MK, Luban NL, Vassallo R, Benjamin R, Panzer S, Reesink HW. Should DEHP be eliminated in blood bags? International Experts Panel, Vox Sanguinis, Feb 2014, 6(2), pp 176-95.

Chapman B, Paquette C, Tooke C, Schwartz M, Osler T, Wilcox R, Hyman N. The impact of Schwartz fat clearing solution on staging colorectal cancer and clinicopathologic features associated with lymph node count. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, Sept 2013, 56(9), pp 1028-1035.