Carter BloodCare welcomes Dr. Celina Montemayor-Garcia as CMO
Dr. Celina Montemayor-Garcia has joined Carter BloodCare as Chief Medical Officer.
Prior to Carter BloodCare, Dr. Montemayor served as the Medical and Scientific Lead, Red Cell Genomics, with Canadian Blood Services.
She was also a Transfusion Medicine Physician at Unity Health Toronto and held academic appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
She previously held the positions of Medical Officer at Canadian Blood Services and Assistant Clinical Investigator and Staff Clinician in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Montemayor received her M.D. from Monterrey Tec Medical School in Monterrey, Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She completed her residency in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin. She received her Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine fellowship training at the National Institutes of Health.
Carter BloodCare President and CEO Dr. Barbara Bryant noted, “Dr. Montemayor has demonstrated remarkable expertise in molecular methods and genomics. Dr. Montemayor pioneered the very first open-source technology capable of translating Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data into precise and comprehensive blood type reports.”
About Carter BloodCare
Carter BloodCare is an independent community blood center providing transfusion resources in 59 counties of North, Central and East Texas to support more than 225 medical facilities. Marking its 75th anniversary in 2026, the nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization is one of the largest blood programs in Texas, delivering more than 450,000 doses of blood and blood components annually to meet the medical treatment needs of local patients. Services include collection, processing, specialized laboratory testing, storage and distribution of blood and blood components, as well as cellular therapy and clinical apheresis. For additional information, visit CarterBloodCare.org. Tu centro de sangre comunitario.