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Executive Committee

The Executive Committee provides ongoing advice and counsel to the CIBMTR Coordinating Center. The Executive Committee is responsible for ensuring that the CIBMTR carries out its mission and fulfills the requirements of its policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direction on scientific activities and policy decisions
  • Finalize priorities for scientific studies, with input from the Working Committees
  • Review results of audits and recommend measures to address deficiencies
  • Appoint a CIBMTR Program Chair and Organizing Committee for the annual BMT Tandem Meetings and selects the annual Mortimer M. Bortin lecturer

Membership

  • Comprised of a subset of CIBMTR Advisory Committee members
Elected Members
​Chair:
Rob Soiffer, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Chair Elect:​John Wingard, MD, Shands HealthCare & University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Vice Chairs
  North America: Marcos de Lima, MD, Seidman Cancer Center-University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
  Europe: Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD, Karolinska University Hospital, Centre for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, Stockholm, Sweden
  Central/South America: Gregorio Jaimovich, MD, Sanatorio Anchorena, Caba, Argentina and Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Asia/Africa/Australia: Biju George, MBBS, MD, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India

Appointed Members
ASTCT Representative: Navneet Majhail, MD, MS, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Bioethicist: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, Abramson Cancer Center University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Business Representative:  Jeff Chell, MD, NMDP/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
Collection Center Representative: James Mason, MD, Scripps Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, La Jolla, CA
Cord Blood Bank Representative: Andromachi Scaradavou, MD, New York Blood Center, Long Island City, NY
Donor Center Representative: Susan Rossmann, MD, PhD, Gulf Coast Marrow Donor Center, Houston, TX
Patient/Family Representatives, (Co-Chairs, Consumer Advocacy Committee)
Hilary Hall, Cambridge, MA
TBD

 

Ex Officio Voting Committee Members
Be the Match/MCW/HRSA Contracting Officer:Nawraz Shawir, MBBS
Be The Match/Navy Project Officer:Robert Hartzman, MD
MCW/HRSA Contracting Officer:

Janet Kuamoto-Crawford, PhD, MHS

Marily Levi, MD

​MCW/HRSA Contracting Officer: ​Marilyn Levi, MD
MCW/NCI Project Officer:William Merritt, PhD
MCW/NHLBI Project Officer:

Nancy DiFronzo, PhD

Nahed El Kassar, MD, PhD

MCW/NIAID Project Officer:Linda Griffith, MD, PhD
Nominating Committee Chair (chair will not vote on Nominating Committee tasks):​Corey Cutler, MD, MPH

 

Ex Officio Non-Voting Committee Members
Executive Director:Randy Mills, PhD, Be the Match, Minneapolis, MN
Chief Scientific Director:Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Chief Statistical Director:Mei-Jie Zhang, PhD, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Scientific Scientific Director, SCTOD:J. Douglas Rizzo, MD, MS, CIBMTR, Milwaukee, WI
Associate Scientific Director. CIBMTR Minneapolis:Steven Devine, MD, CIBMTR, Minneapolis, MN

​Vice President, CIBMTR Minneapolis:

​Roberta King, MPH, CIBMTR, Minneapolis, MN
Executive Director, 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

Last Updated: 3/4/2019 12:11 PM
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