Leah Mendelsohn Stone, JD is Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy at AABB. She leads the strategic development and implementation of the association’s efforts to advance policies that promote access to safe blood, transfusion medicine, and biotherapies. Leah uses her extensive subject matter expertise in health policy to inform AABB’s positions and generate innovative policy solutions. Prior to joining AABB, Leah spent a decade in private practice as a healthcare policy and advocacy attorney. In that capacity, she provided legislative, regulatory, and policy counsel to a wide variety of healthcare organizations. Before entering private practice, Leah was the Research Regulations Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.