Conference Speakers

Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her clinical practice includes trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and acute care surgery. She is a surgeon scientist focused on translational investigations in the field of post-injury platelet biology and platelet genomics, supported by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Defense. Due to her role in coagulation biology, Dr. Kornblith has been instrumental in the National Institutes of Health funded Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) IV (coagulation) Program, for rapid advancement of therapeutics for COVID-19. Additionally, Dr. Kornblith is active in supporting efforts focused on the advancement of women surgeons, and is the University of California, San Francisco Department of Surgery Director for Gender Equity and co-chairs the Muriel Steele Society, an inclusive community dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and promoting women surgeons so they can thrive at all stages of their careers.