Dr. Melissa Cushing
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Specialty: Transfusion Medicine
Academic Affiliation:
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- New York - Presbyterian Hospital
Brief Resume:
- Undergraduate Degree: Duke University
- Medical Degree: Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Clinical Pathology Residency Training: Emory University School of Medicine
- Transfusion Medicine Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- 2011 - present: Director of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapy
- 2014 - present: Associate Director of the Clinical Laboratory
- 2014 - present: Chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Patient Blood Management Program
- Lectures internationally on treatment of perioperative bleeding, viscoelastic testing algorithms, and patient blood management.
- Associate Editor of Transfusion and member of the Editorial Board for Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- New York, USA