Dr. Cohn is Associate Director of Laboratories and Director of the Blood Bank Laboratory. She conducts research in the field of transfusion medicine. She focuses her efforts in two areas: patient blood management and platelet storage and utilization. Patient blood management applies evidence-based guidelines to limit unnecessary transfusions and maximize patient safety. To help foster a good transfusion culture, Dr. Cohn and her colleagues have developed overlapping databases that allow them to monitor every transfusion made in the hospital retrospectively and determine whether they were made within guidelines. Their interactive patient blood management system enables them to specifically target education efforts to where improvement is most needed. A significant drop in red blood cell usage has occurred coincident with the development of this monitoring program aimed at conserving transfusion resources and lowering costs. The interactive and collaborative program Cohn and her colleagues have developed can be tailored for use in small and large hospitals that want to develop a comprehensive patient blood management system. Dr. Cohn is also interested in new platelet storage options, platelet utilization, and patient immunologic reactions to donor plasma. The University is one of the largest users of platelets in the nation because of the large number of umbilical cord stem cell transplants performed each year. Dr. Cohn is Editor-in-Chief of current AABB Technical Manual (20th edition), and Associate Editor of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Science Series. Dr. Cohn has served on the AABB Clinical Transfusion Medicine committee, Transfusion Standards committee and the Transfusion Transmitted Disease committee. She has a doctorate degree in immunology and infectious diseases from Johns Hopkins University and medical degree from Louisiana State University.