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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
​Past Chair:​Paul Martin, MD, PhD, 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

Appointed Members
ASBMT Representative: Kishna 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, Dan​a Farber Cancer Institute, Cambridge, MA

Ex Officio 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, CIBMTR, 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 11:02 AM
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