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Robert S Makar

Robert S Makar, MD, PhD

Clinical and Laboratory Pathology

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

About Robert S Makar

Dr. Makar is board-certified in transfusion medicine and serves as the associate director of the Blood Transfusion Service (BTS). He oversees outpatient and clinical apheresis services for the BTS, including the collection of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells from mobilized patients and donors, extracorporeal photopheresis to treat chronic graft-versus-host disease, and therapeutic plasma exchange to treat various autoimmune diseases. His clinical interests include cellular therapies such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune cytopenias, and transfusion complications related to HLA alloimmunization such as transfusion-related acute lung injury and refractoriness to platelet transfusion. He is a respected teacher in clinical pathology, having twice received the Clinical Pathology Excellence in Teaching Award.

Locations

  1. Pathology Associates

Expertise

Education

  • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Transfusion Medicine, 2004
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathology, 2003
  • Internship: Barnes Jewish Hospital, Medicine, 2001
  • Medical Education: UT Southwestern Medical School, 2000

Board Certifications

  • Anatomic Pathology: American Board of Pathology, 2007
  • Clinical Pathology: American Board of Pathology, 2006

Insurance

Search plans
  • Aetna
  • Beech Street
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Cigna
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Coventry
  • Fallon Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Humana
  • Maine Community Health Options
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • MassHealth
  • Medicaid CT
  • Medicaid ME
  • Medicaid NH
  • Medicaid RI
  • Medicaid VT
  • Medicare
  • Multiplan
  • Railroad Medicare
  • Senior Whole Health
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense
  • WellSense NH