Suzanne Thibodeaux, MD, PhD, serves as medical director of the cellular therapy laboratory and assistant medical director of transfusion services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and as laboratory medical director at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in greater St. Louis, Missouri. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving cellular therapies from the clinical laboratory perspective, apheresis and transfusion medicine as it relates to cellular therapy, and medical education. Suzanne earned her advanced degrees at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, after which she completed a residency in clinical pathology and a fellowship in blood banking and transfusion medicine at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She then joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.