VP and Medical Director
New York Blood Center
Dr. Gorlin is the Vice President of Medical and Quality Affairs for Memorial Blood Center and Nebraska Community Blood Bank as well as Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, all divisions of New York Blood Center enterprises. He is currently the co-director of Transfusion Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, a level one trauma hospital in Minneapolis, and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. In addition, he is medical director of the New York Blood Center Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program.
His education includes a BS-Stanford, MD Yale, and MBA from U of MN Carlson School of Business. He trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Boston Children’s hospital and Dana/Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Gorlin served on the boards of AABB and the National Blood Foundation. He is Associate Clinical Professor of laboratory medicine at University of Minnesota. He is a senior editor of Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis Science. He has authored over 60 journal articles and a dozen chapters in various blood banking texts. He lectures to the medical laboratory scientist students at the University of Minnesota and Kansas University Medical Center.
He is/was a consultant to AABB, CDC and NIH for blood collection capacity building projects in Rwanda, Tanzania and Central Asia including Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and a consultant to WHO for Patient Blood Management. He was the AABB liaison to ACOG, AWHONN and CMQCC for obstetric hemorrhage and is chair of AABB TTD committee. He received the John Elliott Memorial Award (2019) and Presidents award (2022) from the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). He is a panel member of Advisory committee for blood and tissue safety and availability (ACBTSA), that reports to the federal department of Health and Human Safety (HHS).