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Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee is a worldwide group that reviews and approves CIBMTR activities.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all scientific activities of the CIBMTR
  • Review policies of the organization including use of CIBMTR data
  • Review progress of ongoing studies including publications reports
  • Selects Distinguished Service Award receipient for BMT Tandem Meetings

Membership

  • Members to represent transplant centers in North America, Central and South America, Europe and Asia/Australia/Africa contingencies are elected by the CIBMTR Assembly for three-year terms
  • Members to represent donor centers, collection centers, patients, and individuals with expertise in business and ethics are appointed by the Advisory Committee
  • Ex-officio members also represent the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Naval Research (ONR) and CIBMTR leadership

Meetings

In-person Advisory Committee meetings are conducted once annually during the BMT Tandem Meetings. Meetings are open to the public and to federal representatives, except on rare occasions when deliberations pose a conflict of interest (such as in center confidentiality). Ad hoc task forces meet by teleconference as needed to address specific issues.

Elected Members
​Chair:
Rob Soiffer, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
​​Past Chair: Paul Martin, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Vice Chairs
  North America: Paul Carpenter, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
  Europe: Charles Craddock, MD, PhD, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  Central/South America: Nelson Hamerschlak, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein Hospital, Sao Paolo, Brazil
  Asia/Africa/Australia: Mahmoud Aljurf, MD, MPH, King Faisal Specialist Hospital Center & Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
Members at Large
​ ​ ​Karen Ballen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
​ ​ ​Steven Pavletic, MD, MS, NIH-NCI Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, Bethesda, MD
    Navneet Majhail, MD, MS, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
    Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
​ ​ ​Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
​ ​ ​Kirsten Williams, MD, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
  Non North America: Jane Apperley, MBChB, MD, FRCP, Imperial College / Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
​ ​ ​Hildegard Greinix, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    William Hwang, MBBS, MRCP, Singapore, General Hospital, Singapore
​ ​ ​Alok Srivastava, MD, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
​ ​ ​Jeffrey Szer, MD, Royal Melbourne Hospital City Campus, Victoria, Australia
    Afonso Vigorito, MD, PhD, Unicamp - Hemocentro, Campinas, Brazil

Appointed Members
​ASBMT Representative: Krishna Komanduri, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL
​Bioethicist: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, Abramson Cancer Center University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
​Business Representative: Leslie Parran, MS, University of Minnesota Medical Center - Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
​Collection Center Representative: Yvonne Ybarra, GenCure, San Antonio, TX
​Cord Blood Bank Representative: Andromachi Scaradavou, MD, New York Blood Center, Long Island City, NY
​Donor Center Representative: Jason Gangewere, NMDP, Philadelphia, PA ​

Patient/Family Representatives
(Co-Chairs, Consumer Advocacy Committee):

Jeffrey Haertling, Tierra Verde, FL

Hilary Hall, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cambridge, MA


Ex Officio Committee Members
Executive Director: Jeffrey Chell, MD, NMDP, Minneapolis, MN
Chief Scientific Director: Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Chief Statistical Director (Interim): Mei-Jie Zhang, PhD, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Associate Scientific Director SCTOD: J. Douglas Rizzo, MD, MS, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Associate Scientific Director CIBMTR Minneapolis: Dennis Confer, MD, NMDP, Minneapolis, MN

​Vice President CIBMTR Minneapolis:

 ​Roberta King, CIBMTR, Minneapolis, MN
Administrator CIBMTR Milwaukee: Patricia Steinert, PhD, MBA, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI​
​Vice President Patient Services: ​Elizabeth Murphy, EdD, RN, NMDP, Minneapolis, MN
Senior Research Advisor: Daniel Weisdorf, MD, CIBMTR, Minneapolis, MN
NMDP/HRSA Project Officer: Shelley Grant, MPH
NMDP/Navy Project Officer: Robert Hartzman, MD
MCW/HRSA Project Officer: Christine Nishiguchi, MS, MPH
MCW/NCI Project Officer: William Merritt, PhD
MCW/NHLBI Project Officer: Nancy DiFronzo, PhD
MCW/NIAID Project Officer: Linda Griffith, MD, PhD
Nominating Committee Chair: Brenda Sandmaier, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Last Updated: 6/20/2017 11:05 AM
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