Dr. Julie Katz Karp is the Director of Transfusion Medicine and Director of the Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. She received a Bachelor of Science with distinction from Cornell University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was also chief resident. She completed a fellowship in Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Her interests include undergraduate and graduate medical education specifically related to transfusion medicine, as well as blood donor health and recruitment. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine.