Annette Schlueter, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Pathology
Primary Office
Current Positions
- Clinical Professor of Pathology
- Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program Director, Department of Pathology
- National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Apheresis Center Medical Director
- Medical Director, Tissue and Cellular Therapies and Patient Services Sections, DeGowin Blood Center, Department of Pathology
Education
- BS, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
- MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
- MD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
- Resident in Clinical Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Fellow in Transfusion Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Approaches to optimize peripheral blood stem cell collections
- Role of phlebotomy to treat secondary iron overload based on high ferritin measurements
- Implications of skipped days in a series of PBSC collections
- Yields from stem cell collections performed with undetectable peripheral blood CD34 counts
Licenses & Certifications
- Diplomate, American Board of Pathology (Transfusion Medicine), Iowa, United States
- Diplomate, American Board of Pathology (Clinical Pathology), Iowa, United States
- State of Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa, United States
Selected Publications
- Johnson AD, Szczepiorkowski ZM, Chlebeck T, Lee GM, Velez J, Rogers K, Collins L, Schlueter AJ, Mattiazzi AD, Lozada GM, Wu Y, Choi A, Theodore S, Kilic O, Raval J, Balogun RA, Shumilin I, Goggins E, Dandamudi R, Geile K, Henrichs E, Thao M, Pederson T, Ramesh V, Zantek ND. Apheresis in the US (ApheresUS) pilot study: A beta test of the Uniform Apheresis Case Report Form, Montreal, Canada
- Heldman MR, Messina JA, Schlueter AJ, Lee MJ, Saullo JL, Miller RA. (2025) Contemporary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in low-risk, CMV seronegative recipients of solid organ transplants from CMV seronegative donors (D-/R-): time to reexamine donor CMV serostatus. Clin Transplant. In Press
- Jacobs JW, Stanek CG, Booth GS, Symeonidis A, Shih AW, Allen ES, Gavriilaki E, Grossman BJ, Pavenski K, Moorehead A, Peyvandi F, Agosti P, Mancini I, Stephens LD, Raval JS, Mingot-Castellano M-E, Crowe EP, Daou L, Pai M, Arnold DM, Marques MB, Henrie R, Smith TW, Sreenivasan G, Siniard RC, Wallace LR, Yamada C, Duque MA, Wu Y, Harrington TJ, Byrnes DM, Bitsani A, Davis AK, Robinson DH, Eichbaum Q, Figueroa Villalba CA, Juskewitch JE, Kaifa G, Kapsali E, Klapper E, Perez-Alvarez I, Klein MS, Kotsiou N, Lalayanni C, Mandala E, Aldarweesh F, Alkhateb R, Fortuny L, Mellios Z, Papalexandri A, Parsons MG, Schlueter AJ, Torney CA, Wellard C, Wood EM, Jia S, Wheeler AP, Powers AA, Webb CB, Yates SG, Bouzid R, Coppo P, Bloch EM, Adkins BD. (2024) The seasonal distribution of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is influence by geography: Epidemiologic findings from a multi-center analysis of 719 disease episodes. American Journal of Hematology. DOI: 99:2063-2074
- Jacobs JW, Adkins BD, Booth GS, Stanek CG, Allen ES, Grossman BJ, Stephens LD, Crowe EP, Daou L, Marques MB, Siniard RC, Wallace LR, Yamada C, Duque MA, Wu Y, Aljuboori O, Harrington TJ, Byrnes DM, Eichbaum Q, Figueroa Villalba CA, Juskewitch JE, Klapper E, Perez-Alvarez I, Klein MS, Aldarweesh F, Alkhateb R, Parsons MG, Schlueter AJ, Tormey CA, Wheeler AP, Powers AA, Webb CB, Yates SG, Bloch EM, Raval JS. (2025) A Descriptive 5-Year Analysis of the Demographics and Therapies for Patients With Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in the USA: A Multicenter Study of 390 Disease Episodes From 2017 to 2021. Journal of Clinical Apheresis. In press
- Scroggins S.M., Schlueter A.J., (2024) Generation of Human Regulatory Dendritic Cells from Cryopreserved Healthy Donor Cells and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients. Cells. Sep 28; 12(24):2372. DOI: 10.3390/cells12192372. PMID: 37830587 PMCID: PMC10571850.
- Rogers K.J., Mott S.L., Parsons M.G., Schlueter A.J., (2023) Use of subgroup-specific hematopoietic stem cell collection efficiencies to improve truncation calculations for large-volume leukapheresis procedures. J Clin Apher. Dec; 38(6):664-676. DOI: 10.1002/jca.22077. PMID: 37526046.
- Rogers KJ, Alsawas M, Schlueter AJ, Knudson CM. Using the daily rate of rise in hemoglobin S to manage RBC depletions/exchange treatment in sickle cell disease. American Society of Apheresis Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN April 26-28, 2023
- Crowe, E, Bobr, A, and Schlueter AJ. Human Allografts and the hospital transfusion service. In: Technical Manual, 21st ed., edited by Bloch E, AABB Press
- Rogers K, Alsawas M, Chapman J, Schlueter AJ, Knudson CM. (2024) Using the daily rate of rise in hemoglobin S to manage RBC depletion/exchange treatment in sickle cell disease. Transfusion. Apr; 64:685-692, 2024. DOI: 10.1111/trf.17797. PMID: 38506484.
- Rogers, K. J., Parsons, M. G., Strouse, C. S., Farooq, U. & Schlueter, A. J. (2022). A tale of two peripheral blood CD34(+) cell counts: Evaluation of unexpectedly high values prior to peripheral stem cell collection. Transfus Apher Sci 62:103624. DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2022.103624. PMID: 36529601.