Joseph (Yossi) Schwartz, MD, MPH received his MD from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and his MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He completed Internal Medicine & Hematology Fellowship in Israel and then completed Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking fellowship at the New York Blood Center. He was as previously a?Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at the Columbia University Medical Center and served as the Director of the Transfusion Medicine & Cellular Therapy Service. He oversaw the Blood Bank, The Cell Therapy facility and the Apheresis unit.