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Aaron A. Tobian, MD, PhD

Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Aaron Tobian, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pathology, Medicine and Epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also Director of Clinical Laboratories (CLIA Director) at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Director of the Transfusion Medicine Division, and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Pathology. Dr. Tobian divides his time between research and clinical service.

Dr. Tobian has been highly involved with the transfusion medicine community. He is a Section Editor for Transfusion Medicine at UpToDate. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Apheresis and sits on the Editorial Board for the journal TRANSFUSION. Dr. Tobian is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the website Transfusion News; a site that provides weekly updates on the latest studies within the transfusion community as well as interactive transfusion medicine questions three times a week. He has served on the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) Board of Directors for the nine years, including serving as President of the Board.

Dr. Tobian also has an established global research program that studies HIV and other adverse events associated with transfusion. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Tobian has lived or worked in five developing countries. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, Blood and TRANSFUSION.

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