John Hess, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
Raised in Spokane, Dr. Hess attended medical school at the UW. He then spent thirty years in the US military and Public Health Service and a dozen years at the University of Maryland before returning to Seattle to develop transfusion systems for the University of Washington. His research involves both the development of better blood storage systems and hemorrhage control devices and the conduct of large human trials testing better ways to use blood products. He served on the WHO Expert Panel for Blood Transfusion Medicine from 2006?2012.
