作者: John D. Roback

Toby L. Simon, MD is Senior Medical Director for Plasma and Plasma Safety with CSL Plasma and in Research and Development for the parent company CSL Behring, He is past-president of AABB and America”s Blood Centers. He has been on the faculty of University of New Mexico School of Medicine (currently clinical faculty), Medical Director of Tri Core Reference Laboratories and industry representative to the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee. Eric A. Gehrie, MD is a clinical pathologist who specializes in blood banking/transfusion medicine. He is currently the Executive Physician Director over Direct Patient Care and Emerging Cell and Gene Therapy Solutions at the American Red Cross. He has previously been on the faculty of both Yale and Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine. He is a member of the editorial board of Transfusion. Jeffrey Mc Cullough, MD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Medical School with experience in both hospital transfusion services and blood centers. He was the editor of Transfusion for 15 years and the founding president of the US National Marrow Donor Program. He is currently an international advisor in transfusion medicine. He is past-president of the American Board of Pathology. John D. Roback, MD, Ph D is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University. His appointments include Medical Director of Emory Medical Laboratories, Emory/Children”s Laboratory for Innovative Assay Development, and the Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies. He is also Executive Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations. He is a former editor of the AABB Technical Manual. Edward L. Snyder, MD, FACP is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Attending Physician in the Transfusion and Tissue Services at Yale Medical School/Yale New Haven Hospital. He is also the blood bank director at Bridgeport Hospital. He is past chair of the Be The Match Board of Directors and is a past-president of AABB. He is an associate editor of Transfusion and past-recipient of Emily Cooley, Morton Grove-Rasmussen and presidential awards from AABB.