Aaron Shmookler, MD, QIACM

Aaron Daniel Shmookler, MD, QIACM, is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and blood bank/transfusion medicine. After completing a fellowship at The Ohio State University, he served as medical director of transfusion services and of the coagulation laboratory at West Virginia University (WVU) Health System for five years. Dr. Shmookler is a founding member of the State of West Virginia’s first whole blood program for trauma and emergency medicine patients.

Currently, Dr. Shmookler is associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and section director of the Blood Bank and Coagulation Laboratory at UK HealthCare. His interests include patient blood management and improving access to pre-hospital and hospital whole blood for life-threatening hemorrhage in rural communities.