Dr. Gorlin is the Vice President of Medical and Quality Affairs for Memorial Blood Center and Nebraska Community Blood Bank as well as Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, all divisions of New York Blood Center enterprises. Dr. Gorlin served on the boards of AABB and the National Blood Foundation. He is associate clinical professor of laboratory medicine at University of Minnesota. He has authored over 60 journal articles and a dozen chapters in various blood banking texts. He lectures to the medical laboratory scientist students regularly at the University of Minnesota and Kansas University Medical Center. He is currently the co-director of Transfusion Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, a level one trauma hospital in Minneapolis, and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. He is/was a consultant to AABB, CDC and NIH for blood collection capacity building projects in Rwanda, Tanzania and Central Asia including Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. He was the AABB liaison to ACOG, AWHONN and CMQCC for obstetric hemorrhage and is the America’s Blood Centers liaison to AABB TTD committee. He is the 2019 recipient of the John Elliott Memorial Award from the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB).