Yulia Lin
MD, FRCPC
Biography
Dr. Yulia Lin is the Division Head of Transfusion Medicine & Tissue Bank at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, an education researcher and affiliate scientist with the Sunnybrook Research Institute and a co-investigator in the University of Toronto Quality in Utilization, Education and Safety in Transfusion (QUEST) research program.
She is a Clinician Teacher, Associate Professor and Program Director of the Transfusion Medicine Area of Focused Competence (AFC) Diploma Program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
She is a member of provincial and national working groups in transfusion medicine including being the Chair of the Ontario Transfusion Coordinators Network (ONTraC) steering committee, the Physician Lead for Transfusion for Choosing Wisely Canada and the Chair of the University of Toronto Transfusion Camp planning committee. She has led the expansion of Transfusion Camp to 16 medical schools across Canada and in the UK, for which she was awarded the AABB President’s award in 2019. In collaboration with colleagues at Ornge and the Sunnybrook Transfusion Medicine & Tissue Bank, she co-led the development of the Blood on Board program at Ornge.
Her academic interests include physician education in transfusion medicine, patient blood management, and transfusion safety. She has published over 100 papers in these areas.
Expertise
Transfusion Medicine; Patient Blood Management; Transfusion Safety
Contact Information
Publications
Red cell transfusion thresholds in outpatients with myelodysplastic syndromes: Results of a pilot randomized trial RBC-ENHANCE. Buckstein R, Callum J, Prica A, Bowen D, Wells RA, Leber B, Heddle N, Chodirker L, Cheung M, Mozessohn L, Yee K, Gallagher J, Parmentier A, Jamula E, Zhang L, Mamedov A, Stanworth SJ, Lin Y.Transfusion. 2024 Feb;64(2):223-235. doi: 10.1111/trf.17721. Epub 2024 Feb 7.
Transfusion Camp Rwanda: A prospective feasibility study evaluating the delivery of Transfusion Camp to a multidisciplinary group of postgraduate medical trainees in Rwanda. Hagumimana J, Skelton T, Pendergrast J, Nizeyimana F, Masaisa F, Kanyamuhunga A, Gashaija C, Chargé S, Kapitany C, Morgan M, Meirovich H, Lin Y.Transfusion. 2023 Nov;63(11):2170-2178. doi: 10.1111/trf.17568. Epub 2023 Oct 21.
Preoperative anemia in major elective surgery. Skorupski CP, Cheung MC, Lin Y.CMAJ. 2023 Apr 17;195(15):E551. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.221635.PMID: 37068804 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Transfusion Camp: Successes and challenges in scaling and expanding a transfusion medicine education program. Lin Y, Khandelwal A, Kapitany C, Chargé S.Transfus Apher Sci. 2023 Feb;62(1):103629. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2022.103629. Epub 2022 Dec 14.
To view more of Dr. Lin’s publications, visit ResearchGate.