Full Schedule

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

Program Chair: Anne Halpin, PhD CHS A(ACHI) (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta

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

Speaker: Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, FACS (he/him/his) – NYU Langone Health

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

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

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

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

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: J. Wade W. Atkins, MS MLS SBB CQA,CABP(H) – NIH Clinical Center

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

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: 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

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

Presenting Author: Eduard Grebe – Vitalant Research Institute

Presenting Author: Galen Conti, MPH – American Red Cross

Presenting Author: Umesh Singh – American Red Cross

Program Chair: Yen-Michael Hsu – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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

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, n/a (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: Katherine S. Brown, PhD (she/they) – CooperSurgical, Inc

Speaker: Randall Schaefer, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CEN – Schaefer Consulting, LLC

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

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 – Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Award Presenter: 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 – 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

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

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

Program Chair: Timothy Carll – 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

Program Chair: Cristina Figueroa Villalba, MD – Yale School of Medicine

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

Speaker: 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: 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

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

Speaker: Alexzandra Klobassa, MLS (ASCP), SBB (ASCP), M.S. (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 

Program Chair: Moritz Stolla, n/a – Bloodworks Northwest

Program Chair: Eldad Hod – Columbia University

Presenting Author: Moritz Stolla, n/a – Bloodworks Northwest

Presenting Author: Philip Norris, MD – Vitalant Research Institute

Presenting Author: Moritz Stolla, n/a – Bloodworks Northwest

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

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

Program Chair: Juliana Guarente – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Presenting Author: Willy Flegel, MD – National Institutes of Health

Presenting Author: Michelle Conceicao, (ASCP)SBB – OneBlood

Presenting Author: Kshitij Srivastava, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health

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

Program Chair: David H. McKenna, MD – Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School

Program Chair: David Stroncek, MD – National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Katarina Cheng, MD – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Brenda Olge, PhD – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Janaina Sena Boyce, PhD – UC San Diego

Speaker: Priya Baraniak, PhD (she/her/hers) – Pluristyx