I pursued my clinical pathology residency training at the University of Washington where I was fortunate to train with Dr. Wayne Chandler. I specialized in coagulation and benign hematology and started my career as a physician-scientist at the University of Washington. My research focus was on vascular biology and perivascular fibrosis and I was the recipient of a career development award, NIH grants (R03 and R21), and private foundation grants. In 2014 I accepted the position of director of the hematology and coagulation labs at Montefiore Medical Center. Currently, I am fully dedicated to my clinical duties as director of the hematology and coagulation labs of a large hospital system with more than 1500 beds. I am still involved in translational and clinical research. I consider myself a hybrid between a physician-scientist and clinical educator with administrative and lab director duties. I found a happy mix of duties in administration, clinical, consultation, teaching, and research, and I particularly enjoy bench work time in the coagulation lab developing new assays. More recently I moved to the Cleveland Clinic as the director of the thrombosis and hemostasis laboratories to focus on my passion for practicing, researching, and educating in coagulation and clinical pathology.