Professor & Director Emerita
Michigan State University Centers for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders
East Lansing, United States
Dr. Kulkarni is currently Professor Emerita of Pediatrics and Human Development and Director Emerita of the Michigan State University (MSU) Center for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders and was the founder and Director emerita of Pediatric and Adolescent Hematology/Oncology (PHO). She was the Director and distinguished Hematology Consultant, Division of Blood Disorders, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta GA. She is widely published and is a founding member of the Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders (FWGBD)as well as past board member of HTRS and holds membership on numerous national, international and federal committees.
She has received numerous awards including the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society 2023, Lifetime Achievement Award, named one of the “Women in Medicine” by FWGBD, "Eternal Spirit” award from Coalition for Hemophilia B, “Fairy Godmother to women with Hemophilia” by Hemophilia Foundation of Michigan, National Hemophilia Foundations (NHF’s) “Physician of the Year” in 2003 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, the MSU “Distinguished Faculty” award, and distinguished service awards from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC. In 2016, she was honored as one of the “Women Leaders in Hematology” in the American Journal of Hematology.