Alison Gareau, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Division of Transplantation
- Histocompatibility Lab Director
Education
- B.Sc, Lake Superior State University, Sault Ste. Marie, MI
- M.Sc., Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
- PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MD
- Clinical Fellowship, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Research Interests
Dr. Gareau is the Histocompatibility Lab Director. The HLA Laboratory provides histocompatibility testing and clinical consultation for all solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant programs at UW Health and performs all deceased donor HLA typing for UW organ and Tissue Donation.
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Recent Publications
Evaluating diagnosis and clinical outcome for antibody-mediated rejection in liver transplantation: performance of the 2016 Banff Working Group criteria.
Liang TZ, Toomer KH, Gareau A, Birkness-Gartman JE, Gurakar A, Anders RA, Kinowaki K, Oshima K
Virchows Arch 2026 Jan 02;
[PubMed ID: 41483300]HLA Genotype Imputation Results in Largely Accurate Epitope Mismatch Risk Categorization Across Racial Groups.
Cohen GS, Gareau AJ, Kallarakal MA, Farooq T, Bettinotti MP, Sullivan HC, Madbouly A, Krummey SM
Transplant Direct 2024 Jul; 10(7): e1639
[PubMed ID: 38911277]Chronic lung allograft dysfunction is associated with an increased number of non-HLA antibodies.
Xu Q, Elrefaei M, Taupin JL, Hitchman KMK, Hiho S, Gareau AJ, Iasella CJ, Marrari M, Belousova N, Bettinotti M, Narula T, Alvarez F, Sanchez PG, Levvey B, Westall G, Snell G, Levine DJ, Zeevi A, Roux A
J Heart Lung Transplant 2024 Apr; 43(4): 663-672
[PubMed ID: 38141896]Donor specific HLA antibody in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Implications for donor selection.
Krummey SM, Gareau AJ
Front Immunol 2022; 13: 916200
[PubMed ID: 35990679]Next-generation sequencing identifies two novel HLA class II alleles, HLA-DRB1*01:115 and HLA-DRB1*14:224.
Abu-Khader A, Gareau AJ, Burns C, Khan F, Berka N
HLA 2022 Aug; 100(2): 176-177
[PubMed ID: 35384370]