James Burner, M.D.
Director of Pathology Residency Training Program; Medical Director of Transfusion Services, Parkland
Professor

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Dr. Burner is originally from Fargo, North Dakota. He received both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine at the North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND. Following medical school, he completed his Anatomic/Clinical Pathology residency at the University of Missouri-?Kansas City School of Medicine. Following completion of a fellowship in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine at Cedar-?Sinai Medical Center in 2004, he joined the pathology faculty at UTSW as a member of the division of transfusion medicine and hemostasis. He currently serves as the director of transfusion services for both Parkland hospital and UTSW University Hospitals as well as the medical director of the therapeutic apheresis service at Parkland. In addition he is the program director of the transfusion medicine training program and associate director of the pathology residency training program at UTSW.

 

Medical School

University of North Dakota (1994)

Fellowship

Truman Medical Center-West (1999), Pathology

Residency

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Med (1999), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology

Fellowship

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2004), Transfusion Medicine Pathology

• COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma
• Immunohematology
• Red Cell Genotyping
• Therapeutic Apheresis

Featured Publications

Fixed-dose prothrombin complex concentrate for emergent warfarin reversal among patients with intracranial hemorrhage.

Dietrich SK, Mixon MA, Rech MA, Am J Emerg Med 2021 Nov 49 326-330

Effect of TPE vs medical management on patient outcomes in the setting of hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis with severely elevated triglycerides.

Webb CB, Leveno M, Quinn AM, Burner J, J Clin Apher 2021 Jul

The utility of therapeutic plasma exchange in Hyperviscosity syndrome associated with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: A case report.

Green AP, Gonzalez AC, Alperin JB, Burner JD, Yates SG, J Clin Apher 2021 May

Immune checkpoint inhibitor toxicity: A new indication for therapeutic plasma exchange?

Compton F, He L, Sarode R, Wodajo A, Usmani A, Burner J, Berlacher M, De Simone N, J Clin Apher 2021 Mar

Role of plasma exchange in stiff person syndrome.

Albahra S, Yates SG, Joseph D, De Simone N, Burner JD, Sarode R, Transfus. Apher. Sci. 2019 Mar

You can't get CMV from a blood transfusion: 2017 Emily Cooley award lecture.

Goldfinger D, Burner JD Transfusion 2018 Nov

Plasma exchange for the management of refractory pruritus of cholestasis: A report of three cases and review of literature

Chkheidze R, Joseph R, Burner J, Matevosyan K. J Clin Aphere 2018 Jun 33 3 412-418

Potential use of IgG endopeptidase in the management of platelet refractoriness due to HLA alloimmunization.

Burner JD, Goldfinger D Transfus. Apher. Sci. 2018 May

Therapeutic plasma exchange for hypertriglyceridemia induced pancreatitis: A rapid and practical approach.

Gavva C, Sarode R, Agrawal D, Burner J Transfus. Apher. Sci. 2016 Feb

Thromboembolic Outcomes Following Use of a 4-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate for Vitamin K Antagonist Reversal in a Real-World Setting

Ranjit Joseph, James Burner, Sean Yates, Amanda Strickland, William Tharpe, and Ravi Sarode Transfusion 2016 56 4 799-807

 Featured Books

Refractoriness to Platelet Transfusion Therapy. In UpToDate

Dennis Goldfinger & James Burner (2017). Wolters Kluwer Online Press

• Dennis Goldfinger Award for Excellence in Clinical Transfusion Medicine
  Award/lectureship presented annually by the California Blood Bank Society to a transfusion medicine physician who consistently demonstrated one or more of the following throughout their career: dedication to clinical practice of transfusion medicine, commitment to training of future transfusion medicine physicians and/or leader in bringing about innovative changes to the field. (2022-2022)
• Vernie A. Stembridge Clinical Pathology Resident Teaching Award
  Presented annually by clinical pathology residents to clinical pathology faculty for commitment to excellence in teaching. (2019)
• Vernie A. Stembridge Clinical Pathology Resident Teaching Award
  Presented annually by clinical pathology residents to clinical pathology faculty for commitment to excellence in teaching. (2018)

• American Society for Apheresis (2006)
• North Texas Society of Pathology (2005-2015)
• California Blood Bank Society (2003)
• American Association of Blood Banks (1999)
• American Society of Clinical Pathologists (1994)
• College of American Pathology (1994)