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Sandra J. Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers)

-Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology
LANSDALE, Pennsylvania

Sandra Nance is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine & Therapeutic Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and is a guest lecturer at the post-graduate program at the Diego Portales University in Chile. She is the current co-chair of the AABB Awards Committee. She has provided leadership to the American Rare Donor Program, American Red Cross National Laboratories including Blood Group Serology, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Molecular Testing, Neutrophil and Specialized Testing. She engineered the nationalized American Red Cross SBB Program. Her master’s degree in Pathology is from the University of Maryland and her SBB is from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. She has been named to Halls of Fame by ASCP and the AABB. She is the former Editor in Chief of the Immunohematology Journal of Blood Group Serology and Molecular Genetics. She is the developer of the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) for serologic testing and the monocyte monolayer assay (MMA) used by the National Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Serology (NRLBGS) to predict in vivo survival of transfused incompatible red cells. She initiated the International MMA Training classes at the NRLBGS.
Ms. Nance held leadership positions in the AABB, ASCP, ICII, and ISBT. She chaired the ISBT Working Party on Rare Donors and conceptualized and organized the ISBT Working Party on Immunohematology, was its Interim first chair and managed the Case Studies for the WP as the past chair. She is currently a part of the ISBT mentoring program and is a member of the Standing Committee of the ISBT Academy.
Ms Nance has received the John Elliott, President’s and Sally Frank awards from AABB, Excellence in Management and Mastership Award from ASCP, Ron Dubin Memorial Lectureship from the Hospital Blood Bank Supervisors of New York, the Kay Beattie Memorial Lectureship from the Michigan Association of Blood Banks, the Pettaway-Shepherd Award of the North Carolina Association of Blood Banks, the John Moulds Memorial Lectureship from the South Central Association of Blood Banks and the Jean Stubbins Memorial Lectureship from the University of Texas Medical Branch. She was named a Health Manpower Development Plan Expert of the Singapore Ministry of Health and a Technical Expert by the IANZ in New Zealand. She is a founding recipient of the AABB Foundation Hall of Fame and is an AABB Foundation Scholar.
Her career positions include Lead Technologist at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with Dr. Paul Ness and Immunohematology Research Associate in Dr. George Garratty’s Research Laboratory. Active in education, she was faculty for University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, University of Pennsylvania, Diego Portales University, NIH and American Red Cross. She has authored or co-authored over 50 papers, 200 abstracts and edited 9 books. She has provided leadership for the Clinical Fellowship Rotation at Red Cross for University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the SBB Schools at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, as well as giving over 250 invited lectures for local, national and international societies.

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