Gail Rock, Ph.D., M.D., FRCP

Chief Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Ottawa Hospital

Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario

About the Speaker

Dr. Gail Rock, whose training is in hematopathology (blood disorders), is Chief of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine (Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine) for Ottawa Hospital, and Professor of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine on the Faculty of Medicine for the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Transfusion Science, President of the Canadian Hematology Society, and Chair of the Canadian Apheresis Group.

Her publications include: 168 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 49 review articles and/or chapters in books. Books edited include: Apheresis and Quality Assurance in Transfusion Medicine (Volumes 1 and 2).

Prior to joining Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Dr. Rock worked as an Emergency Room Physician and she has also been in private Medical Practice. She was employed by the Canadian Red Cross as the Medical Director of the Ottawa Centre for close to fifteen years during which time she redeveloped local and national programs in Apheresis and carried out many studies on blood and blood components. She has served as a Consultant to the Department of Agriculture, to the Office of the Surgeon General of Canada. She has been a Special Advisor for Hospital Blood establishments of the Bureau of Biologics, Health Canada and has been appointed to the National Canadian Blood Safety Council reporting to Minister Rock.

Dr. Rock received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1966 followed by two years of NRC Fellowship in the Biophysics Department of the National Research Council and two years of Postdoctoral Training on an MRC Fellowship. She obtained her M.D. from Ottawa University in 1972 and later her F.R.C.P. in Hematopathology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Rock is Chair of the Hematological Pathology Residency Training Committee.