Courtney Lawrence MD

Dr. Courtney Lawrence is the Paul Ness Transfusion Medicine Fellow in the Pathology Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Lawrence studied biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Virginia while volunteering as an EMT and firefighter with the Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department. She relocated back to her hometown for medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Courtney then completed a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, before moving to Washington, D.C., to complete a three-year fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Children’s National Medical Center. While at Children’s National, she earned a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical and Translational Research at George Washington University and studied the effect of exosomes from obese visceral adipose tissue on human platelets. Dr. Lawrence’s research at Johns Hopkins focuses on optimizing strategies for red cell exchange transfusions in patients with sickle cell disease.