Terry B. Gernsheimer

Dr. Gernsheimer is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and an Adjunct Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also the Medical Director of Transfusion at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. Her clinical and research interests include immune platelet disorders and thrombocytopenia in pregnancy and management of bleeding in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and acute leukemia. Dr. Gernsheimer earned her Medical Doctorate at the State University of New York and trained in internal medicine at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She lectures nationally and internationally on platelet transfusion therapy, immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), and thrombocytopenia in pregnancy and has authored and co-authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and educational materials on thrombocytopenia and transfusion management.