Dennis K. Galanakis, MD

Dennis K. Galanakis, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine
Director of Blood Bank
University Hospital, Level 5
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7530

Tel: (631) 444-2625  
Fax: (631) 444-3137 
Email:  dennis.galanakis@stonybrookmedicine.edu
 
Clinical Practice:
Dr. Galanakis is Board Certified in Clinical Pathology (1978), with subspecialty expertise in Transfusion Medicine, Apheresis, and Coagulation. He has extensive experience as Director of a Fellowship training program in Transfusion Medicine since 1991. He regularly receives consultations from local and distant metropolitan area physicians for apheresis of patients with a variety of diseases. He has published many studies on fibrinogen and is particularly well known for his expertise in familial fibrinogen anomalies. Dr. Galanakis has pioneered a procedure that stops excessive bleeding from surgery by use of the patient’s own platelet rich plasma. Adaptations of this procedure have been successfully used to minimize transfusion in open heart surgery and in burn patients, and to treat seromas.

Research Summary:
Dr. Galanakis is internationally knows for his published studies of normal fibrinogen variants and of inherited fibrinogen disorders. He regularly receives requests to evaluate such families from physicians in different states and countries, and such evaluations at times result in benefit to these families. In particular, loss of pregnancy has been avoided in many instances with such disorders, as a result of recommendations emanating from his tests and evaluations of such families. He has also published basic studies on the structure/function relationships of fibrinogen and on interactions of fibrinogen with other proteins and platelets.

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