Predictors of red blood cell transfusion effectiveness: From bench to bedside Tuesday, August 26 | 8-9 a.m. Simmons Cancer Institute, Woerner Conference Room, 1st Floor Nareg Roubinian, MD, MPHTM is an investigator at Vitalant Research Institute, adjunct faculty at UCSF and senior physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Kaiser Permanente Oakland. This lecture is part of the inaugural Visiting Lectures on Hematologic Disorders to correspond with the investiture of Ruchika Goel , MD, MPH, as the O.H. Wesly Endowed Chair of Excellence in Hematologic Disorders .