Board of Directors (2011-2012)

Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP

President
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mount Sinai, NY

Arthur W. Bracey, MD

President Elect
Medical Director, Transfusion Service

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital

Department of Pathology

Houston, TX USA

Nabil E. Hassan MD, FAAP

Secretary
Pediatric Intensivist

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital

Grand Rapids, MI

Steven E. Hill, MD

Treasurer
Medical Director/Professor of Anesthesiology

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC USA

Kathleen J. Sazama, MD, JD

Immediate Past President
Medical Officer

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers

Gainesville, FL USA

Neil Blumberg, MD

Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

University of Rochester School of Medicine

Rochester, NY USA

William Ershler, MD

Advisory Director
Director, Geriatrics and Gerontology

Riverside Health System 

Newport News, VA

Victor A. Ferraris, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY USA

Elora Thorpe, RN, MSN

Transfusion Safety Nurse Manager

The University of Kansas Hospital

Kansas City, KS

Fiona E. Ralley, MD

Director

LHSC - University Hospital

Perioperative Blood Conservation Program

London, ON CANADA

Heather Mingo, RN

Perioperative Blood Management Program

Halifax Infirmary Site, Dept of Anesthesia

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Irwin Gross, MD

Medical Director, Transfusion Services

Eastern Maine Medical Center

Bangor, ME

John Freedman, MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritis of Medicine, University of Toronto
ONTraC Program Director

St. Michael's Hospital

Transfusion Medicine Department

Toronto, ON CANADA

Mary L. Ghiglione, RN, BSN, MSN, MHA

National Director, Blood Management

aLab Services

San Diego, CA

Paul M. Ness, MD

Director, Transfusion Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

Baltimore, MD

Sherri Ozawa, RN

Secretary Treasurer Assistant
Clinical Director

Institute for Patient Blood Management

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center