Dr. Bates is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology in the Department of Pathology at University of Colorado, and one of the Associate Medical Directors of Transfusion and Apheresis Services at UCHealth Anschutz. Her special interests include patient blood management and clinical coagulation. She earned her MD at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, completed a residency in Clinical Pathology at UTMB in Galveston, and fellowship in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, TX.