Senior Medical Director, Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Vitalant and Johns Hopkins University
Springfield, Illinois
Dr. Ruchika Goel is the Wesly Endowed Chair of Hematology and a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, at SIU School of Medicine and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Pathology, Division of Transfusion Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ruchika Goel has also served as Senior Medical Director, Corporate Medical Affairs at Vitalant National Office in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Dr. Goel did her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the combined program at Johns Hopkins University/National Cancer Institute at NIH followed by a Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell and New York Blood Center.
Dr. Goel serves a dual role as a practicing hematologist/oncologist with a focus on benign and malignant hematology and a transfusion medicine physician and is actively engaged in research in Big Data and Novel Computational Methods in Hematology and Transfusion Medicine with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Hemostasis/Thrombosis. She also serves as an invited consultant and subject matter expert for the NIH/NHLBI funded REDS-IV-P longitudinal studies. She is the current co-chair of the Clinical Transfusion Working party of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT).
Dr. Goel has multiple accolades to her name including the AABB Fenwal Future Leader TM Scholarship Award, Paul J. Stranjford Young Investigator award by the American College of Laboratory Physician and Scientists, BEST Collaborative Scott Murphy Lectureship, 40 under 40 award for exemplary clinical service and has also received international recognition with the ISBT Harold Gunsen fellowship and the Australian and New Zealand Blood Transfusion Society Presidential award.
Dr. Goel has over 150 peer reviewed publications and book chapters to her name including key first author publications in some leading journals including JAMA, JAMA Surgery, Blood, Transfusion, Lancet Americas, and Vox Sanguinis and has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally on topics of her research focus.
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM PT
Monday, October 27, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PT