Press Kit: Old Blood, New Life

Allen P. Green, MD, is board-certified in clinical pathology and serves as Associate Medical Director at Global Apheresis in Mill Valley, California. He trained in therapeutic apheresis and transfusion medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center under Dr. Ravi Sarode, and has supervised over 500 therapeutic plasma exchange procedures. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented at the American Society for Apheresis and AABB. With Dr. Dobri Kiprov, he is co-author of Old Blood, New Life, a history of what medicine has believed about blood and an account of where the evidence for plasma exchange stands today.

Allen P. Green, MD, is board-certified in clinical pathology and serves as Associate Medical Director at Global Apheresis in Mill Valley, California. He trained in therapeutic apheresis and transfusion medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center under Dr. Ravi Sarode, and has supervised over 500 therapeutic plasma exchange procedures.

Apheresis is a procedure practiced within transfusion medicine, itself a branch of clinical pathology. Few physicians offering plasma exchange today trained in the discipline that developed it. That background shapes how Dr. Green approaches the field: as a clinical pathologist first, attentive to what the evidence supports and to where the claims outrun it.

His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented at the American Society for Apheresis and AABB. He writes at allenpgreenmd.com on therapeutic plasma exchange for clinicians and patients, including critical assessments of unproven procedures marketed under the apheresis label.

With Dr. Dobri Kiprov, one of the physicians who established therapeutic plasma exchange in clinical practice and who has overseen more than 15,000 treatments, he is co-author of Old Blood, New Life. The book traces what medicine has believed about blood from the ancient world through the long era of bloodletting to the present, and asks a question that sounds ridiculous until you look at the mechanisms: what did the humoralists get right, and what does the current evidence actually show about removing pathological factors from circulating plasma?

Dr. Green practices in Mill Valley, California.