Dr. Rance Chadwick Siniard, M.D., will join the UAB Department of Pathology on Monday, March 2, in the Division of Laboratory Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He joins the department from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was a clinical assistant professor since 2017. He served as clinical director, therapeutic apherisis, in that role since January 2019.

Siniard received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2007, after graduating summa cum laude from Kennesaw University with an undergraduate degree in biology.

Siniard served as the medical director of UNC Hospitals Blood Donor Center from October 2017; as director of the Pathology Residency Rotation in blood banking at UNC Chapel Hill from July 2018 to present. He was Associate Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine and Special Coagulation at McLendon Clinical Laboratories at UNC Healthcare.

His research interests include hemostasis and thrombosis, specifically thrombotic microangiopathies including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). At UNC, he assisted in banking plasma from each TTP patient’s first apheresis procedure, which will allowed him to create a bank of research samples for additional studies. Dr. Siniard plans to continue this line of research at UAB.