Dr. Patricia Kopko graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Loma Linda University and had a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She has more than 20 years of experience in blood banking and transfusion medicine. Dr. Kopko is currently a Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego where she serves as the Director of Transfusion Medicine, the Associate Director of the Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory and as Associate Director of the Pathology Residency Training Program.