2024 ASCP 40 Under Forty Honoree

Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD, FASCP

Dr. Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD, FASCP, is the director of the Blood Bank and the Transfusion Medicine Fellowship at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Board-certified in clinical pathology and transfusion medicine, Dr. Cone Sullivan completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and her fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Fellowship Program. She earned her medical degree with the prestigious Platform Scholarship at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. A fellow of ASCP and a member of the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies, she is deeply involved in professional organizations.

Blood transfusion—the most common hospital-based procedure per to the Joint Commission—is often lifesaving. However, obtaining sufficient compatible blood products can be challenging, particularly for highly alloimmunized sickle cell disease or platelet refractory patients. Dr. Cone Sullivan's research focuses on innovative techniques to increase blood product availability for these patients. She also develops proactive inventory management strategies and guidelines for the ethical allocation of blood products. Her work has been recognized as an annual Highlight of ASH (American Society of Hematology, 2022), and she was selected for the National Institutes of Health's prestigious Early Career Reviewer Program for the Transplantation, Tolerance, and Tumor Immunology Study Section.

An engaging educator, passionate about mentoring future clinical pathologists, Dr. Cone Sullivan actively teaches and advises students from high school to post-graduate levels and was honored as the Pathology Trainee-Selected Mentor of the Year at Tufts Medical Center in 2022. Additionally, as an experienced musician, she volunteers in Michigan Medicine's Music While You Wait program, providing soothing classical and jazz piano for patients and their loved ones.

Email: jensyn@med.umich.edu Twitter/X: @J3nsyn