Twenty-Eighth Annual Symposium Program Participants

Celso Bianco, MD
Executive Vice President
America's Blood Centers
Washington, DC
No relationships to disclose

Garrett Booth MD, MS
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD
No relationships to disclose

Patricia Brunker, MD, PhD
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
No relationships to disclose

Cathy Conry-Cantilena, MD
Medical Officer
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Executive Medical Director
Batimore Rh Typing Lab., Inc
Baltimore, MD
No relationships to disclose

Anne F. Eder, MD, PhD
Executive Medical Officer
American Red Cross Biomedical Services, National Headquarters
Washington, DC
No relationships to disclose

Willy A. Flegel, MD
Chief, Laboratory Services Section
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Disclosure: Former employee of DRK Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg-Hessen with patents on molecular genetics for RHD

Walter E. Kelley, DO
Clinical Chemistry Fellow
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD
No relationships to disclose

Harvey G. Klein, MD
Chief, Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD
No relationships to disclose

David J. Kuter, MD, D. Phil.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Hematology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Disclosure: Receives research support from Amgen, Glaxo Smith Kline, Akak Pharmaceutical and Ono Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Director, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
No relationships to disclose

Ellen F. Lazarus, MD
CAPT USPHS
Medical Officer, Division of Human Tissues
Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies
CBER, FDA
Rockville, MD
No relationships to disclose

Susan F. Leitman, MD
Chief, Blood Services Section
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD
No relationships to disclose

Yvette Marie Miller, MD
Executive Medical Officer,
Donor and Client Support Center
American Red Cross Blood Services
Charlotte, NC
No relationships to disclose

Alan N. Schechter, MD
Chief, Molecular Medicine Branch, NIDDK
Senior Historical Consultant
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Disclosure: Patent applicant for therapeutic uses of nitrite salts