Dr. Mark Popovsky serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Haemonetics Corporation. He is on the editorial board of five journals and has held positions on numerous AABB, national and international committees, and NIH panels. Dr. Popovsky served in Nigeria in 2004 as a member of the PEPFAR delegation to that country. He is the recipient of numerous awards for contributions to transfusion medicine and teaching. Dr. Popovsky was the 2009 AABB Emily Cooley Awardee.
Dr. Popovsky is an honors graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He received his training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the National Institutes of Health, and in transfusion medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He served as Director of the Transfusion & Intravenous Services at the Mayo Clinic from 1982-1985. In 1985, Dr. Popovsky assumed the role of Medical Director of the American Red Cross – New England Region, a position he held until 1995. From 1996-2000, he was Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Officer of the New England Region.
He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Boston University Medical School and Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Popovsky has authored, or co-authored, over 375 publications in transfusion medicine and pathology. He is the editor and co-editor, respectively, of two reference books on transfusion medicine.