Brian Adkins, M.D.

Dr. Adkins earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Biomedical Science and Biological Science at Marshall University. He attended medical school at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, and completed his Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He went on to complete fellowship training in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine and Hematopathology at University of Virginia Health. He is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology with subspecialty certification in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine and Hematopathology. 

His interests include resident and fellow education as well as clinical research. 

Medical School

Marshall University (2015)

Residency

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2019), Pathology/lab Medicine

Fellowship

University of Virginia (2020), Hematopathology

Fellowship

University of Virginia (2021), Blood Banking/transfusion Medicine

Featured Publications

Crizanlizumab and sickle cell disease: When should medications have their approval status revoked?

Jacobs JW, Stephens LD, Chooljian DM, Sharma D, Adkins BD, Booth GS, Am J Hematol 2024 Feb

Commentary on A Differential Diagnosis of Thrombotic Microangiopathy in a 7-Year-Old Girl.

Adkins BD, Luu HS, Clin Chem 2024 Feb 70 2 372

Thrombosis risk with haemoglobin C trait and haemoglobin C disease: A systematic review.

Jacobs JW, Sharma D, Stephens LD, Figueroa Villalba CA, Rinder HM, Woo JS, Wheeler AP, Gerberi D, Goel R, Tormey CA, Booth GS, Bloch EM, Adkins BD, Br J Haematol 2024 Jan

New threats from an old foe: Evaluating the risk to the blood supply due to increasing incidence and endemicity of leprosy in the United States.

Jacobs JW, Adkins BD, Bibb LA, Stephens LD, Woo JS, Bloch EM, Booth GS, Transfus Apher Sci 2024 Jan 103877

Assessing Recommendations for Determining Fetal Risk in Alloimmunized Pregnancies in the United States: Is It Time to Update a Decades-Old Practice?

Abels E, Adkins BD, Cedeno K, Booth GS, Allen ES, Stephens LD, Woo JS, Tormey CA, Jacobs JW, Transfus Med Rev 2023 Dec 38 2 150810

Assessing authorship of clinical practice guidelines.

Jacobs JW, Adkins BD, Sharma D, Wheeler AP, Stephens LD, Woo JS, Khan SS, Booth GS, Lancet Haematol 2023 Dec 10 12 e950

The potential association between extracorporeal photopheresis and thrombosis.

Jacobs JW, Adkins BD, Bibb LA, Woo JS, Allen ES, Stephens LD, Binns TC, Bloch EM, Booth GS, Bone Marrow Transplant 2023 Nov

The devil's in the details: Exploring historically low board pass rates in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine.

Adkins BD, Usmani A, Stephens LD, Jacobs JW, Booth GS, Am J Clin Pathol 2023 Oct

In response: How increased rates of high blood-utilization events may have influenced blood usage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jacobs JW, Booth GS, Adkins BD, Transfusion 2023 Sep 63 9 1782-1784

Battle of the (Chat)Bots: Comparing Large Language Models to Practice Guidelines for Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prevention.

Stephens LD, Jacobs JW, Adkins BD, Booth GS, Transfus Med Rev 2023 Aug 150753