Program Schedule

Program Chair: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD – Duke University

Speaker: Ed Ahn, Ph.D (he/him/his) – MEDIPOST, Inc.

Speaker: Shibani Pati, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California San Francisco

Speaker: Peter McSweeney, MB, ChB (he/him/his) – Mesoblast

Program Chair: Wanxing Cui, MD, PhD, CABP(H) – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Speaker: Ronit Slotky, PhD, MSc, CABP – Hackensack University Medical Center

Speaker: Sarah Clark, MBA (she/her/hers) – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Program Chair: Emily Coberly, MD – American Red Cross

Speaker: Nathan McLamb – WashU in St. Louis

Speaker: Amy Gabbard, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – IU Health

Program Chair: Margaret A. Keller, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Melissa R. George, DO – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Speaker: Jeffrey L. Winters, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

Program Chair: Hamilton C. Tsang, MD – Ochsner Medical Center

Speaker: Chancey L. Christenson, MD MPH FCAP – Mayo Clinic Florida

Speaker: Ericka W. Narr, MA (she/her/hers) – NMDP

Program Chair: Janis R. Hamilton, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross-Michigan Region

Program Chair: Nalan Yurtsever, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Kathleen Bensing, MLS(ASCP)SBB – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Presenting Author: Gina Folk, MSHS, MLS(ASCP), SBB – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Community Blood Center of KC

Presenting Author: Kathleen Bensing, MLS(ASCP)SBB – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Presenting Author: June Fuertes, MS, MLS(ASCP) (he/him/his) – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Immunohematology and Genomics Laboratory

Program Chair: Audra L. Taylor, MS, SBB(ASCP) – South Texas Blood & Tissue

Program Chair: Bethany Brown – American Red Cross

Speaker: Evan M. Bloch, MBChB, MS – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Speaker: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Martin H. Ellis, MD (he/him/his) – Meir Medical Center

Speaker: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD – University of Utah Health

Speaker: Jay S. Raval, MD – University of Vermont Medical Center

Speaker: Susan M. Shea, MSME, PhD (she/her/hers) – Trauma and Transfusion Medicine Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker: Nicole D. Zantek, MD, PhD – Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota

Speaker: Bethany Weathersby, MEd – The Allo Hope Foundation

Speaker: Andrew Cap, MD, PhD – US Army Institute of Surgical Research

Program Chair: Jaime McGillivray (she/her/hers) – Canadian Management Centre

Program Chair: Anthony J. Filiano, n/a – Duke University

Speaker: Brandon Hadland, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Speaker: Tara Sadeghi, MS (she/her/hers) – Cellenkos

Program Chair: Lynsi Rahorst, MHPE, MLS(ASCP)SBB – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Speaker: Michelle Lodermeier, MBA, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Sunitha Vege, MS (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center

Program Chair: Christopher A. Tormey, MD – Yale School of Medicine

Speaker: Eric Gehrie, MD – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Speaker: Nalan Yurtsever, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine

Program Chair: James C. Zimring, MD,PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

Program Chair: Krystalyn E. Hudson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: Steven L. Spitalnik, MD – Columbia University

Speaker: David R. Gibb, MD PhD (he/him/his) – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Program Chair: Harpreet Sandhu, MT(AAB), MBA, MS – Stanford Blood Center

Speaker: Suchitra Pandey, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University/Stanford Blood Center

Speaker: Jessica M. Khouri, MD (she/her/hers) – California Department of Public Health, Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program

Program Chair: Cassandra Josephson – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Program Chair: Kristina Prus, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Presenting Author: Yembur Ahmad, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Presenting Author: Elizabeth F. Stone, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Presenting Author: Christopher Thom, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Presenting Author: Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine

Program Chair: Kyle Annen, DO – Children's Hospital Colorado

Speaker: Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Program Chair: Vaanush Nazaryan, MBA, BB(ASCP)SBB, CMQ/OE, CPHQ – Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Speaker: Edward Griffin, MBA, MS, CLS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ), PMP – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Speaker: Vaanush Nazaryan, MBA, BB(ASCP)SBB, CMQ/OE, CPHQ – Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Speaker: Susan W. Noone, MPH, CQA(ASQ) (she/her/hers) – Vitalant

Program Chair: Patricia Shi, MD (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center

Speaker: Swee Lay Thein, MD, DSc., FMedSci – Sickle Cell Branch, NHLBI, NIH

Speaker: Adetola Kassim, MD, MS – Vanderbilt University

Speaker: Julie Kanter, MD (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program Chair: Sheila A. Jones – AABB

Speaker: Donna Lucia, BS,MT(ASCP) CQA(ASQ) (she/her/hers) – MedStar Union Memorial Hospital & MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital

Speaker: Nancy Q. Lee, BS MT(ASCP) – HCMC Minneapolis, MN

Speaker: Susan M. Wilson, BS, MLS(ASCP)SBB – .

Speaker: Christopher Bocquet (he/him/his) – AABB

Speaker: Karen E. Palmer, MT(ASCP), CQA(ASQ) – AABB

Speaker: Nina Sen, BB, SBB (ASCP) (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Program Chair: Filippo Milano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutch

Speaker: Rob Wynn, MD

Speaker: Filippo Milano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutch

Speaker: Sijian Yu, MD – Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Program Chair: Vasiliki E. Kalodimou, Professor Dr. (she/her/hers) – IASO, EUC

Speaker: Jennifer Chain,, PhD, CABP – CSM

Speaker: Ronit Slotky, PhD, MSc, CABP – Hackensack University Medical Center

Program Chair: Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine

Program Chair: David R. Gibb, MD PhD (he/him/his) – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Speaker: Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Monike A. M Oliveira, MS – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Presenting Author: Arijita Jash – University of Virginia

Presenting Author: Mischa Covington, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

Presenting Author: Elizabeth L. Frost, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia

Program Chair: Krystalyn E. Hudson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: David Roh, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: Moritz Stolla – Bloodworks Northwest

Speaker: James C. Zimring, MD,PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

Program Chair: Frances Verter, PhD (she/her/hers) – Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation

Panelist: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD – Duke University

Speaker: Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx); Clinical Cell Processing Laboratory (CCPL); Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI); University of WA, Dep’t of Pediatrics; Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Panelist: Peter W. Marks, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Pharmaceutical Industry

Speaker: Frances Verter, PhD (she/her/hers) – Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation

Program Chair: Jeff Wren, MBA, CABP – AABB

Speaker: Kim McConnell, PharmD, BCPS, CCRP – UCSD Medical Center

Speaker: Kimberly Villar, MLS(ASCP), CLS (she/her/hers) – UC San Diego Health Stem Cell Processing Laboratory

Speaker: Stefano Rivella, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's hospital of Philadelphia

Program Chair: Francesca Vinchi, PhD – Emory University School of Medicine

Speaker: Francesca Vinchi, PhD – Emory University School of Medicine

Program Chair: Sue Johnson, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)SBB – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin

Program Chair: Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Presenting Author: Jonathan R. Singher, MLS(ASCP)CM (he/him/his) – Trinity Health

Presenting Author: Caroline B. Dixon – NIH Clinical Center/Department of Transfusion Medicine

Presenting Author: Natasha Leon, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Versiti

Program Chair: Richard Gammon, MD – Moffitt Cancer Center

Program Chair: Juan V. Rodriguez, MD – Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

Presenting Author: Jessica L. Jacobson, MD – NYC H+H/Bellevue & NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Jiachen Shan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Presenting Author: Minh-Ha Tran, DO – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Presenting Author: Jessica Hillman, RN, RDN (she/her/hers) – Geisinger

Presenter: Tom Whitehead – Emily Whitehead Foundation

Program Chair: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD – Duke University

Speaker: Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Peter W. Marks, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Pharmaceutical Industry

Award Acceptance: Steven L. Spitalnik, MD – Columbia University

Program Chair: Sandra J. Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology

Award Presenter: Don Siegel, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Program Chair: Dominic Clarke – Cryoport

Speaker: Becky M. Cap, MBA (she/her/hers) – Vitalant

Speaker: Theresa Pina – Gulf Coast Blood

Program Chair: Kerry OBrien, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Speaker: Scott Shainker, DO, MS – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Tara Singh, MD, MHCDS (she/her/hers) – Cambridge Health Alliance

Program Chair: Steven Drews, PhD FCCM D(ABMM) (he/him/his) – Canadian Blood Services

Speaker: Jed Gorlin – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Speaker: Evan M. Bloch, MBChB, MS – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Program Chair: Jeremy W. Jacobs, MD, MHS – Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Program Chair: Zhen Mei, MD – UCLA

Presenting Author: Allison Myers, MSN CCRN (she/her/hers) – Texas Children's Hospital

Presenting Author: Clay Mann – National EMS Information System Technical Assistance Center

Presenting Author: William S. Crews Jr., MD – Carter BloodCare

Presenting Author: Chinelo P. Onyenekwu, MD – University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics

Program Chair: Jayanna K. Slayten, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBBcm – UTMB and Indiana University Health

Speaker: Diana L. Riddle, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)cmSBBcm (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Medical Branch

Speaker: Sarah Burnett-Greenup, MS, MLS(ASCP)CMSBBCM – University of Texas Medical Branch

Speaker: Kaitlyn M. Shelton, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Bloodworks Northwest

Speaker: Michelle Lodermeier, MBA, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Paul Mansfield, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross

Speaker: Kathy Haddaway, MLS(ASCP)CM SBBCM – Transfusion Medicine Division, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Speaker: Natasha Leon, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Versiti

Speaker: Wyenona Hicks, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Self

Speaker: Traci Paige, MT(ASCP)SBBcm (she/her/hers) – The National Institutes of Health

Program Chair: Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH – Children's National Hospital

Program Chair: Christopher A. Tormey, MD – Yale School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Rosario Hernandez-Armengol, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Presenting Author: Kelly Lai (she/her/hers) – Vitalant Research Institute

Presenting Author: Emilya Huseynova, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – The American Red Cross

Presenting Author: James C. Zimring, MD,PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

Presenting Author: Shibani Pati, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California San Francisco

Presenting Author: Mark Popovsky, MD (he/him/his) – Velico Medical

Program Chair: Eric Gehrie, MD – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Presenting Author: Jason E. Crane, D.O. – Vitalant/PlasmaSource

Presenting Author: Yaseen Jamal, MD, PhD – Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Margaret A. Keller, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Presenting Author: Richard Gammon, MD – Moffitt Cancer Center

Speaker: Theodore W. Kieffer, MD, MS (he/him/his) – Abbott Laboratories - Abbott Transfusion Medicine

Program Chair: Magali J. Fontaine, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Krystalyn E. Hudson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Presenting Author: Ileana Pedraza (she/her/hers) – BioBridge Global

Presenting Author: Aswath P. Padmanabhan Chandrasekar, MBBS – Mayo Clinic

Presenting Author: Anthony J. Filiano, n/a – Duke University

Presenting Author: Cheng-Chung Lee, N/A, n/a (he/him/his) – Taipei Medical University

Speaker: Jay S. Raval, MD – University of Vermont Medical Center

Program Chair: Sean Stowell, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

Speaker: Yunfeng Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – New York Blood Center

Speaker: Patricia E. Zerra, MD – Emory University

Speaker: Susan Conway, MD – Children’s Research Institute

Program Chair: Tomasz Baran, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – FamiCord

Speaker: Heather Brown, MS – CBR by CooperSurgical

Speaker: Roberto Waddington, BScEcon (he/him/his) – CryoHoldco Brasil

Speaker: Sara Shields, MPH, MLS (ASCP) – Cleveland Cord Blood Center

Speaker: Arwa Z. Al-Riyami, BS.c, MD, FRCPC  – Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, University Medical City & College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University

Program Chair: Eammon Ferguson, BSc, PhD, FRSPH, AFBPS (he/him/his) – University of Nottingham

Speaker: Abiola Okubanjo, BSc, ACA (she/her/hers) – Action On Blood

Speaker: Christina Lueck, MT, ASCP – Blood Centers of America

Program Chair: Vivienne Marshall, Ph.D (she/her/hers) – BBG Advanced Therapies

Speaker: Evan Delay, RN, MSN (she/her/hers) – Bloodworks Northewest

Program Chair: Scott Jones, PhD (he/him/his) – BioBridge Global

Speaker: Katie M. Quinn, MS, M(ASCP)CM (she/her/hers) – QualTex Laboratories

Speaker: Lisa M. Piscitelli (she/her/hers) – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Speaker: Sandra J. Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology

Speaker: Christine Lomas-Francis, MSc, FIBMS – Complement Biology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center Enterprises

Program Chair: Janis R. Hamilton, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross-Michigan Region

Speaker: Jose Cancelas (he/him/his) – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Speaker: Glenn Whitman, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Program Chair: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

Program Chair: Tanya Petraszko, MD – Canadian Blood Services

Program Chair: Erin Horstman, MD – Yale Medicine

Presenting Author: Elizabeth A. Godbey, MD – Mayo Clinic Florida

Presenting Author: David Boamah, MHS, MD (he/him/his) – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine

Presenting Author: Albert Budhipramono – University of Texas Southwestern

Presenting Author: Aisha Haider (she/her/hers) – Indus Hospital & Health Network

Program Chair: Courtney Hopkins – Vitalant

Speaker: Audra L. Taylor, MS, SBB(ASCP) – South Texas Blood & Tissue

Speaker: Eric Bank, LP, NRP – EMS

Speaker: Wendy Smart – UCHealth’s South Region

Speaker: Matthew Swingholm, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBBcm – AABB

Speaker: Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc, FAEMS, FACEP (he/him/his) – Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services Howard County Police Department

Speaker: David Long, MA, NRP – Tidewater Emergency Medical Services Council, Inc.

Speaker: Mark Warth, BHS, NRP – Colorado Springs Fire Department

Program Chair: Jim Ropa – University of Indiana School of Medicine

Speaker: Samira Kiani, MD – Hexem Bio Inc.

Speaker: Janine Lasalle, PhD – University of California - Davis Health

Speaker: Rafael Llanso, M.D. FAAP – Gables Pediatrics

Speaker: Muharrem Yunce, MD (he/him/his) – Stanford Healthcare

Speaker: Minh-Ha Tran, DO – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Program Chair: Jeremy W. Jacobs, MD, MHS – Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Program Chair: Sara Bakhtary, MD – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Program Chair: Kimberly A. Thomas, PhD (she/her/hers) – Vitalant Research Institute

Speaker: Graham Sher, O.C (he/him/his) – Canadian Blood Services

Speaker: Jerry M. Dale, Jr. (they/them/theirs) – American Red Cross

Program Chair: Don Siegel, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: Panagiotis Mistriotis, PhD (he/him/his) – Auburn University

Speaker: Jansen Seheult, MB BCh BAO, MSc, MS, MD – Mayo Clinic

Program Chair: Deanna C. Fang, MD, A(ACHI) (she/her/hers) – University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Speaker: Sunitha Vege, MS (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center

Speaker: Jun Liu, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Mass General Brigham

Program Chair: Aaron A.R Tobian, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Ruchika Goel, MD, MPH, CABP (she/her/hers) – Vitalant and Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: David Daniel, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins Medicine

Program Chair: Jayanna K. Slayten, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBBcm – UTMB and Indiana University Health

Speaker: Sydney Klausing, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)cm, SBBcm – American Red Cross

Speaker: Nibal Harb, MS, SBB(ASCP)CM – OneBlood

Program Chair: Sean Stowell, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

Program Chair: Karina Yazdanbakhsh, PhD – New York Blood Center

Speaker: Allan Doctor, MD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland

Speaker: Marie A. Hollenhorst, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Divya Beri, PhD (she/her/hers) – NYBC

Speaker: Pavel Davizon-Castillo – Bloodworks Northwest

Speaker: Tirthadipa Pradhan-Sundd, PhD (she/her/hers) – Versiti Blood Research Institute; Medical College of Wisconsin

Speaker: Paul Kausik, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Speaker: Shang-Chuen Wu, PhD – Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard University

Program Chair: Kate Falcon Girard, RN MSN (she/her/hers) – ViaCord from Revvity

Speaker: Haywood Brown, MD (he/him/his) – Duke University

Panelist: Lauren Isley, MS, CGC (she/her/hers) – CBR/CooperSurgical

Speaker: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD – Duke University

Program Chair: Chancey L. Christenson, MD MPH FCAP – Mayo Clinic Florida

Speaker: Justin Juskewitch, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic Rochester

Speaker: Allan M. Klompas, MBBCh – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Gabor Bagameri, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

Program Chair: Eric Matthews, PhD, DHSc, MSEd, MA (he/him/his) – Department of Health Sciences, AT Still University

Speaker: Richard Gammon, MD – Moffitt Cancer Center

Speaker: Ludwig R. Frontier, MD, MSc, MBA, DHSc. (he/him/his) – Macopharma

Program Chair: Jeff Wren, MBA, CABP – AABB

Speaker: Kat Kozyrytska, MS – Cell Therapy Manufacturability Program

Speaker: Robert Tressler, MS, PhD – Excellos

Award Presenter: J. Wade W. Atkins, MS MLS SBB CQA,CABP(H)

Program Chair: Federico Rodriguez Quezada, SBB, MLS(ASCP) (he/him/his)

Program Chair: Linda S. Barnes, DrPH, MHA, RAC, CABP(H) (she/her/hers) – Linda S Barnes Consulting

Speaker: Jacob Pendergrast, MD (he/him/his) – University Health Network

Speaker: Caroline Wesonga, MSc (she/her/hers) – Coalition for Blood for Africa

Program Chair: Patricia Brunker, MD, DPhil (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital

Program Chair: Philip Norris, MD – Vitalant Research Institute

Presenting Author: Clara Di Germanio, PhD (she/her/hers) – Vitalant Research Institute / UCSF

Presenting Author: Mars Stone, PhD – Vitalant Research Institute / UCSF

Presenting Author: Brian Custer – Vitalant Research Institute, Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, US

Program Chair: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Courtney Hopkins – Vitalant

Speaker: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD – University of Utah Health

Speaker: Pampee Young, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Simon J. Stanworth, FRCP FRCPath DPhil – University Oxford

Speaker: Arnaud Reggiani, n/a – Bio-Rad Laboratories

Speaker: Janis R. Hamilton, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross-Michigan Region

Speaker: Patricia M. Kopko, MD – pkopko@health.ucsd.edu

Speaker: Austin Dyches, SBB(ASCP) – OneBlood, Inc.

Program Chair: Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx); Clinical Cell Processing Laboratory (CCPL); Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI); University of WA, Dep’t of Pediatrics; Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Program Chair: Filippo Milano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutch

Speaker: Karolyn Ogliari, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hemocord Biotecnologia

Speaker: Sarah Mahan (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Speaker: Vasiliki E. Kalodimou, Professor Dr. (she/her/hers) – IASO, EUC

Speaker: Gesine Petra Kogler, PhD (she/her/hers) – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Speaker: Leland Metheny, MD – University Hospitals

Speaker: Nina Horowitz, PhD (she/her/hers) – ImmuneBridge

Award Acceptance: Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Program Chair: Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH – Children's National Hospital

Program Chair: Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx); Clinical Cell Processing Laboratory (CCPL); Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI); University of WA, Dep’t of Pediatrics; Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Presenting Author: Christina Melief, PhD – National Cord Blood Network

Presenting Author: Jonathan Messer, PhD (he/him/his) – 42Bio

Presenting Author: Caridad Martinez, MD – Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital

Speaker: Erin Goodhue Meyer, DO, MPH – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Speaker: Sara Lewandowski, MS (she/her/hers) – Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies

Speaker: Jerel Malong, MSN, RN, QIA – University of California San Diego

Program Chair: Patricia M. Kopko, MD – pkopko@health.ucsd.edu

Speaker: Anne Halpin, PhD CHS S(ACHI) (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta

Speaker: Amena Usmani, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California San Diego Health

Speaker: Harold Sullivan, MD – Emory University

Program Chair: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

Program Chair: Aaron A.R Tobian, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Simon J. Stanworth, FRCP FRCPath DPhil – University Oxford

Speaker: Monica Pagano – University of Washington Medical Center

Speaker: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD – University of Utah Health

Program Chair: Nabiha H. Saifee, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's

Speaker: Christina Greene, MD – Seattle Children's and University of Washington

Speaker: Anil Panigrahi, MD, PhD – Stanford University School of Medicine

Program Chair: Laura Staller, MHA, MLS(ASCP) (she/her/hers) – NMDP

Speaker: Bill Ward, MT(ASCP) DLM LSSGB CABP – Vitalant

Speaker: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH – NMDP

Speaker: Diane Kadidlo, MT(ASCP) SBB – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Cindy Roppe Stanaway, MT(ASCP) – University of MN

Program Chair: Yvette M. Miller, MD, ABIHM (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Rim Abdallah, MD – Vitalant

Speaker: Jenni Gasbarro (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Yvette M. Miller, MD, ABIHM (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Speaker: Fatima Aldarweesh, MD, QIA (she/her/hers) – The University of Chicago

Program Chair: Sandhya R. Panch, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Speaker: INIGO ROMON ALONSO, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla

Speaker: Andie Pahomi, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)CMSBBCM – Versiti

Speaker: Ankit Mathur, MD (he/him/his) – Rotary Bangalore TTK Blood Bank, Bangalore Medical Services Trust, India

Program Chair: Sue Johnson, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)SBB – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin

Program Chair: Barry Siegfried, MD – American Red Cross

Program Chair: Glenn Ramsey, MD (he/him/his) – Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Speaker: Daniela Hermelin, MD, CABP – ImpactLife

Presenting Author: Emily Coberly, MD – American Red Cross

Presenting Author: Eduard Grebe – Vitalant Research Institute

Presenting Author: Galen Conti, MPH – American Red Cross

Presenting Author: Umesh Singh, MBBS, PhD, MPH, MBA – American Red Cross

Program Chair: Juliet Barker, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine/ New York Presbyterian

Speaker: Juliet Barker, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine/ New York Presbyterian

Speaker: Ann Dahlberg, MD (she/her/hers) – Fred Hutch

Speaker: Andromachi Scaradavou, MD (she/her/hers) – MSK kids

Speaker: Billy Weales – The Blood Center

Speaker: B. J. Smith – Carter BloodCare

Speaker: Regina Collier – Carter BloodCare

Program Chair: Emily Storch – FDA/CBER

Presenting Author: Sehyo Yune, MD, MPH, MBA (she/her/hers) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Presenting Author: Cibyl Down, MLS(ASCP)CM SBB – Versiti Blood Center of Michigan

Presenting Author: Elizabeth F. Stone, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Presenting Author: Robert A. DeSimone, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

Program Chair: Jennifer Andrews, MD, MSc – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speaker: Elizabeth M. Cappello, MD, MEHP – Emory University

Speaker: Nadia Syed, DO MPH (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Program Chair: Karen Moniz – ICCBBA

Speaker: Robin Wilkinson, BA (she/her/hers) – ICCBBA

Speaker: Jessica L. Poisson, MD, MMCi (she/her/hers) – Duke Health

Speaker: Christina Melief, PhD – National Cord Blood Network

Program Chair: Laura Staller, MHA, MLS(ASCP) (she/her/hers) – NMDP

Speaker: Roger Horton – Anthony Nolan

Speaker: Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx); Clinical Cell Processing Laboratory (CCPL); Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI); University of WA, Dep’t of Pediatrics; Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Speaker: Erin O'Gara, PhD (she/her/hers) – NMDP

Program Chair: Ralph R. Vassallo, MD FACP – Vitalant

Program Chair: Phil Accooe, MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CLS, CABP, PMP (he/him/his) – U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Speaker: Ruchika Goel, MD, MPH, CABP (she/her/hers) – Vitalant and Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Mindy Goldman, MD – Canadian Blood Services

Program Chair: Katherine S. Brown, PhD (she/they) – CooperSurgical, Inc

Speaker: J. Wade W. Atkins, MS MLS SBB CQA,CABP(H)

Speaker: Kim Tadesco, PhD (she/her/hers) – Walgreens Gene & Cell Services

Speaker: Eric Bank, LP, NRP – EMS

Program Chair: Christopher A. Tormey, MD – Yale School of Medicine

Speaker: David Daniel, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins Medicine

Speaker: Nalan Yurtsever, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine

Speaker: Jeremy W. Jacobs, MD, MHS – Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Program Chair: Paul Mansfield, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross

Award Presenter: Sandra J. Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology

Award Acceptance: Thierry Peyrard, PharmD, PhD, EurSpLM – Etablissement Français du Sang, La Plaine Saint-Denis, France

Program Chair: Thomas Binns, MD – Yale University School of Medicine

Program Chair: Alexandra Jimenez – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine

Presenting Author: Samantha Little (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School

Presenting Author: Laura Eastwood, MSc DipRCPath (she/her/hers) – NHS Blood and Transplant

Presenting Author: Sunny S. Lou, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St Louis

Presenting Author: Emilee Greager, MD – Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg FL

Speaker: Beth Shaz, MD, MBA (she/her/hers) – Duke University

Speaker: Susan W. Noone, MPH, CQA(ASQ) (she/her/hers) – Vitalant

Program Chair: Christopher Bocquet (he/him/his) – AABB

Program Chair: Leana Serrano-Rahman, MPH, MLS (ASCP), CQA (ASQ) (she/her/hers) – Kalidad Healthcare Consulting

Speaker: Jamal Carter, MD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Speaker: Ricardo Sumugod, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB – Northwestern Medicine

Program Chair: Jan C. Hofmann, MD, MPH, MSc (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco

Speaker: Jay S. Raval, MD – University of Vermont Medical Center

Speaker: Matthew J. Foglia, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Speaker: Melanie Sloan, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ) (she/her/hers) – AABB

Speaker: Matthew Swingholm, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBBcm – AABB

Award Acceptance: Michael Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPath – University of Oxford

Program Chair: Federico Rodriguez Quezada, SBB, MLS(ASCP) (he/him/his)

Award Presenter: Richard M. Kaufman, MD – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine

Speaker: Fatima Aldarweesh, MD, QIA (she/her/hers) – The University of Chicago

Speaker: William N. Rose, MD – University of Wisconsin

Program Chair: Timothy C. Carll, MD (he/him/his) – The University of Chicago

Program Chair: Gregory A. Denomme, PhD (he/him/his) – Grifols Laboratory Solutions

Program Chair: Margaret A. Keller, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Presenting Author: June Fuertes, MS, MLS(ASCP) (he/him/his) – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Immunohematology and Genomics Laboratory

Presenting Author: Chloe Homich, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Blood Bank of Delmarva

Presenting Author: Margaret A. Keller, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross

Program Chair: Cristina Figueroa Villalba, MD – Seattle Children’s

Program Chair: Eric Salazar, MD, PhD – University of Texas Health San Antonio

Presenting Author: Sylvia Werner – Octapharma, USA Inc., Paramus, NJ, USA

Presenting Author: Carly Maucione, MD (she/her/hers) – WashU in St. Louis

Presenting Author: Melissa Krygsman, MLS (ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers) – Corewell Health

Presenting Author: Kathy Haddaway, MLS(ASCP)CM SBBCM – Transfusion Medicine Division, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Program Chair: Rita A. Reik, MD FCAP (she/her/hers) – OneBlood

Speaker: Anne F. Eder, MD PhD – Office of Blood Research and Review (OBRR), CBER, FDA

Speaker: Suchitra Pandey, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University/Stanford Blood Center

Speaker: Marion C. Lanteri, PhD (she/her/hers) – Creative Testing Solutions

Speaker: Michael Joyner, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

Program Chair: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD – Duke University

Speaker: Shalini Shenoy, MD (she/her/hers) – Washington University

Speaker: Richard Childs, MD (he/him/his) – NHLBI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Speaker: Christine Duncan, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

Speaker: Mitchell Horwitz, MD – Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center

Speaker: Tracie Nichols, MS, MLS (ASCP), SBBcm, CABP, CQA (ASQ) (she/her/hers) – AABB

Speaker: Melanie Sloan, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ) (she/her/hers) – AABB

Program Chair: Jeff Wren, MBA, CABP – AABB

Speaker: Christina Celluzzi, PhD, MS, CABP(H) – AABB

Program Chair: Jessica L. Poisson, MD, MMCi (she/her/hers) – Duke Health

Speaker: Bruce Sachais, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Program Chair: Robert A. DeSimone, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

Speaker: Pooja Desai – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Speaker: Randall W. Velliquette, SBB (ASCP) CM (he/him/his) – New York Blood Center Laboratory of Immunohematology and Genomics

Program Chair: Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Speaker: Kyle Annen, DO – Children's Hospital Colorado

Speaker: Laura Connelly-Smith, MBBCh,DM – Fred Hutchinson cancer Research Center ? University of washington Medical Center

Panelist: Mary Berg – University of Colorado

Panelist: Suzanne Thibodeaux, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Immunology

Panelist: Divjot Singh Lamba, M.D. Transfusion Medicine (he/him/his) – Dept of Transfusion Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh India

Panelist: Jennifer Jones, MD – Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Vitalant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Program Chair: Justin Kreuter, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Alexzandra Klobassa, MS, MLS(ASCP), SBB(ASCP) (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic Rochester

Speaker: Amy Mata, MS, MLS(ASCP), SBB – Mayo Clinic

Program Chair: Asawari Bapat, MBBS, DPB, PGDHHM, CABP(H), DABRM,FABRM (she/her/hers) – CEO & Founder, Questar Enterprise, LLC, Dubai, UAE; VP-Infohealth FZE, Dubai, UAE; Consultant- AABB Global Impact Consulting, MD, USA; Consultants- Oncology Services, London, UK; Consultant- Clinical Affairs, Regenerative Outcomes, LLC, Nashville, TN, USA; PO Box: 6824 UAE.

Speaker: Asawari Bapat, MBBS, DPB, PGDHHM, CABP(H), DABRM,FABRM (she/her/hers) – CEO & Founder, Questar Enterprise, LLC, Dubai, UAE; VP-Infohealth FZE, Dubai, UAE; Consultant- AABB Global Impact Consulting, MD, USA; Consultants- Oncology Services, London, UK; Consultant- Clinical Affairs, Regenerative Outcomes, LLC, Nashville, TN, USA; PO Box: 6824 UAE.

Speaker: Dimitrios Kouroupis, MSc, PhD  (he/him/his) – University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine