Diagnosis and management of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

Mike Murphy is Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Oxford and Consultant Haematologist for NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and the Oxford University Hospitals. He founded the NHSBT’s Clinical Studies Unit, Systematic Reviews Initiative, and National Comparative Audit programme. He was Secretary of the National Blood Transfusion Committee (England) from its establishment in 2001 to 2015, and provided leadership for the Chief Medical Officers’ Better Blood Transfusion/Patient Blood Management Seminars and Health Service Circulars from 1997 to 2012. He chaired the group which developed the NICE guidelines on transfusion (2015), was Chair of the international BEST Research Collaborative (2014 to 2018) and was President of the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) (2019). His main focus is on hospital transfusion practice, patient blood management and the use of information technology. He has published many original articles, systematic reviews, and book chapters and has been an editor of Practical Transfusion Medicine through its first 6 editions.