Chris Gresens, MD

Non-voting Adviser to the Board of Directors

Dr. Chris Gresens has served as a medical consultant for Global Healing since 2000 before joining the Board of Directors in 2008. He is the Senior Medical Director and Vice President of Global Medicine at BloodSource, located in Sacramento, California. In addition, he teaches actively to pathology residents, hematology/oncology fellows and other healthcare professionals through the UC Davis Medical Center, where he holds the position of Clinical Professor. His professional interests include: the education of physicians, nurses and laboratory scientists in the field of blood banking and transfusion medicine; consultations involving medical and laboratory problems that vary from the mundane to the complex; and the establishment of modernized blood banks in developing countries throughout Africa, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Dr. Gresens holds a degree in chemistry/biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego and a medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine.