Kate Hartman
Cheif Scientific Officer
Dr. Sarah "Kate" Hartman serves as Chief Scientific Officer for Gulf Coast Blood, where she provides strategic leadership for the organization's scientific, medical, laboratory, quality, and patient blood management initiatives. She works to advance evidence-based transfusion medicine, strengthen clinical partnerships, and support innovation that improves patient care throughout the region.
Dr. Hartman brings more than 15 years of experience in transfusion medicine, clinical pathology, and laboratory leadership. Prior to joining Gulf Coast Blood, she served as Associate Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine. She also served as Medical Director of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Service at Ben Taub Hospital, one of the nation's busiest Level I trauma centers, where she led transfusion services, apheresis operations, coagulation laboratory programs, and multiple clinical quality initiatives.
Throughout her career, Dr. Hartman has provided medical leadership for hospital laboratories and transfusion services across the Texas Medical Center, including Texas Children's Hospital and several Harris Health laboratory facilities. She is recognized for her expertise in patient blood management, transfusion safety, therapeutic apheresis, coagulation, and laboratory quality.
An accomplished physician scientist, Dr. Hartman has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading medical journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine and Transfusion, and has contributed chapters to publications from the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
Dr. Hartman earned her Doctor of Medicine from UTHealth Houston and her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. She completed her residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Boston Medical Center and UT Health San Antonio, followed by a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.