Dr Anastazia Keegan is a Consultant Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist with expertise in Transfusion Medicine and Obstetric Haematology. She is Head of Department, Haematology at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, Western Australia.
Dr Keegan is the immediate past President of the Australian New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT) where she co-authored numerous national guidelines including the Guidelines for Transfusion and Immunohaematology Laboratory Practice, Administration of Blood Products and the Prevention of Transfusion-associated Graft-verses-Host Disease; as well as the National Blood Authority (NBA) Patient Blood Management Guideline for adult patients with critical bleeding, and is currently contributing to the NBA’s Position Statement on the Use of CMV-seronegative blood components for transfusion.
Dr Keegan recently been commissioned as an officer (Squadron Leader) in the Royal Australian Air Force’s first Expeditionary Health Squadron (1EHS) to develop and deliver the Australian Defence Force’s Blood Program.