Congratulations to Yara Park, MD, who will serve as Chief Graduate Medical Education Officer and Designated Institutional Official (DIO), UNC Hospitals and Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, UNC School of Medicine beginning Dec. 1.
Park currently serves as director of the Pathology Residency Program and the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory. She will continue serving as the medical director of the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory and performing clinical work with the transfusion medicine service while serving as DIO.
Park is a board-certified pathologist and previously served in leadership roles with the Transfusion Medicine Service of the McLendon Clinical Laboratories, Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking Fellowship, and national organizations such as the American Society for Apheresis and the College of American Pathologists.
She lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and two sons and enjoys skiing, reading, baking, and gardening in her free time.