Michael J. Bauer MD, Medical Director

Michael J. Bauer MD, Medical Director Research For Life

Since beginning a private consulting practice in September of 2000, Dr. Bauer has become a nationally recognized medical expert in tissue banking, infectious disease consulting, and laboratory testing. He is also a CLIA-certified laboratory director and provides consultation services as Medical Director at Research For Life and is the physician-of-record.

An ordained minister, Dr. Bauer pastored for eight years before enrolling in the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1988. After graduation from medical school, he completed a residency in pathology in 1997 at the same institution. He went on to complete a fellowship year in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Dr. Bauer is board certified in Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine. He has served as a blood bank physician in Grand Rapids, Michigan, East Orange, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado.

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