Susan Goobie, MD, FRCPC

Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia,
Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Anesthesia,
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Susan Goobie specializes in Patient Blood Management, patient blood management quality improvement and clinical research, blood conservation methods, coagulation disorders, anti-fibrinolytics, anemia, and pharmacokinetic research.

She is the Executive Section Editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Executive Editor of Pediatric Anesthesia, chair and committee member of a number of societies, including the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society, Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, American Society of Anesthesia, and the International Anesthesia Research Society, American Society of Anesthesia and Canadian Anesthesia Society. She is a past board member and chair of the scientific committee and educational committee member for the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM).

At Boston Children’s Hospital, she is the founder and director of the Department of Anesthesiology’s Patient Blood Management Program, the chair of the Main Operating Room Research, and the founder and past director of the Pharmacokinetics Laboratory.

Dr. Goobie is from Newfoundland, Canada and lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, 3 children and a golden retriever. She is an avid cyclist, skier and loves the outdoors.

Sherri Ozawa, RN

Clinical Advisor,
Institute for Patient Blood Management

Immediate Past President,
Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM)

Sherri Ozawa has been a leader in the field of patient blood management (PBM) and for more than 25 years. Her background in critical care nursing enabled her to help create one of the largest and most widely known multidisciplinary PBM programs in the world at Englewood Health in New Jersey.

Sherri has lectured throughout the USA and internationally, with a particular focus on the creation and implementation of sustainable, organized PBM Programs. She has published numerous peer reviewed abstracts, posters, book chapters, and articles on the subject, and continues to be actively involved in research in the field. She has also worked extensively with regulatory agencies and other academic organizations, such as The Joint Commission, to analyze and develop better practices for delivery and creation of organized Patient Blood Management Programs.

Most recently, Sherri was a contributor to the World Health Organization policy brief on Patient Blood Management. Additionally, Sherri has advised and served as an expert for numerous medical and public media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, NBC, CBS, ABC, and many others. She served as an Investigator on the first US Federal Government Grant via the Department of Defense funding the creation of an organized training program for physicians and other health care professionals in the field of patient blood management. She was also a founding member and Immediate Past President for the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, and international multidisciplinary medical society dedicated to promoting optimal PBM. Sherri has won several awards, including SABM Kathleen J Sazama Award “For Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Patients’ Rights in Patient Blood Management” (2017), and Bloodless Medicine & Surgery Society Award of Excellence(2019).