2011-2012 Board of Directors

President
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai, NY
John Freedman MD, FRCPC
ONTraC Program Director
St. Michael's Hospital
Transfusion Medicine Department
Toronto, ON CANADA

President Elect
Arthur W. Bracey, MD

Medical Director, Transfusion Service
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Department of Pathology
Houston, TX
Mary L. Ghiglione RN, BSN, MSN, MHA
Manager, Blood Management Program
Swedish Medical Center
Seattle, WA
Secretary
Nabil E. Hassan MD, FAAP
Pediatric Intensivist
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Grand Rapids, MI
Irwin Gross, MD
Medical Director, Transfusion Services
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, ME
Treasurer
Steven E. Hill MD

Medical Director/Professor of Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Heather Mingo RN, MSN, FNP
Perioperative Blood Management Program
Halifax Infirmary Site, Dept of Anesthesia
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Immediate Past President
Kathleen J. Sazama, MD, JD

Medical Officer
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers
Gainesville, FL
Paul M. Ness MD
Director, Transfusion Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution
Baltimore, MD
Neil Blumberg MD
Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, NY
Sherry Ozawa RN
Clinical Director
Institute for Bloodless Medicine and PBM
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ
William Ershler MD (Advisory Director)
Director, Geriatrics and Gerontology
Riverside Health System
Newport News, VA
Fiona E. Ralley MD
Director, London Health Sciences Centre - University Campus
Perioperative Blood Conservation Program
London, ON CANADA
Victor A. Ferraris MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Elora Thorpe RN, MSN
Transfusion Safety Nurse Manager
The University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, KS

Last Updated: December 14, 2011