Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability

Chair:
Arthur W. Bracey, M.D.
Associate Chief
Department of Pathology
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
6720 Bertner Avenue, MC 4-265
Houston, TX 77030
Terms:
09/30/04 to 09/30/07
05/29/08 to 05/29/09

Public Members (Voting)

John H. Arnold, M.D.
President
Ohio Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgeons Inc.
3525 Olentangy River Road, Suite 5320
Columbus, OH 43214
Term:
03/30/09 to 03/30/13

Ann Marie Benzinger
President
Alpha-1 Advocacy Alliance
Post Office Box 182
Wolftown, VA
Term:
03/01/07 to 03/01/10

Anne Marie Finley, M.S., RAC
Vice President
Government Relations
Celgene Corporation
2776 South Arlington Mill Drive, Suite 808
Arlington, VA 22206
Term:
03/01/07 to 03/01/10

Charles E. Haley, M.D., M.S.
Medicare Medical Director
TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC
8330 LBJ Freeway
Executive Center III
Dallas, TX 75243-1213
Term:
05/29/08 to 05/29/11

Andra H. James, M.D., M.P.H.
Co-Director
Duke Comprehensive Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center
Duke University Medical Center, Box 3967
Durham, NC 27710
Term:
03/30/09 to 03/30/12

Peter Kouides, M.D.
Research Director
Mary M. Gooley Hemophilia Center, Inc
1425 Portland Avenue
Rochester, NY 14621
Term:
03/01/07 to 03/01/10

Ileana Lopez-Plaza, M.D.
Division Head, Transfusion Medicine
Henry Ford Health System
Senior Staff, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital
2799 West Grand Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48202
Term:
03/01/07 to 03/01/10

Glenn Pierce, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Biogen Idec Hemophilia Business Unit
Terms:
12/01/05 to 12/01/07
05/29/08 to 05/29/10

Gregory J. Pomper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Medical Director, Blood Bank; and
Blood and Marrow Transplant Laboratory
Department of Pathology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1072
Term:
05/29/08 to 05/29/12

Ravindra Sarode, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Transfusion Medicine and
Hemostasis Laboratory
Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75390-9073
Term:
03/30/09 to 03/30/12

Aryeh Shander, M.D., FCCM, FCCP
Chief, Department of Anesthesiology
Critical Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
Englewood Hospital & Medical Center
350 Engle Street
Engelwood, NJ 07631
Term:
 03/30/09 to 03/30/13

Linda Wade
Executive Director
Sickle Cell Association of Austin
Marc Thomas Chapter
314 E. Highland Mall Boulevard, #108
Austin, TX 78752
Term:
12/01/05 to 12/01/09

Roslyn A. Yomtovian, M.D.
VA National Quality Scholar Fellow
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
10701 East Boulevard 14(W)
Cleveland, OH 44106
Term:
 03/30/09 to 03/30/13

Representative Members (Voting)

AABB
Darrell J. Triulzi, M.D.
Medical Director
Centralized Transfusion Service
Institute for Transfusion Medicine
3636 Boulevard of the Allies
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Term:
03/01/07 to 03/01/10

ABC
Frederick B. Axelrod, M.D., M.B.A.
President/Chief Executive Officer
LifeStream
384 West Orange Show Road
San Bernardino, CA 92408
Term:
03/30/09 to 03/30/12

PPTA
Julie A. Birkofer
Executive Director, North America
Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association
147 Old Solomons Island Road, #100
Annapolis, MD 21401
Terms:
12/01/05 to 12/01/08
03/30/09 to 03/30/10

The Joint Commission
Klaus Nether
Associate Project Director
Division of Standards and Survey Methods
The Joint Commission
One Renaissance Boulevard
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Term:
05/29/08 to 05/29/12

UNOS
Michael G. Ison, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
and Organ Transplantation
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Transplant & Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Service
645 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 900
Chicago, IL 60611
Term:
05/29/08 to 05/29/12

Manufacturer
Laurence Corash, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs
Chief Medical Officer
Cerus Corporation
2411 Stanwell Drive
Concord, CA 94520
Term:
03/30/09 to 03/30/12

Non-Voting Ex Officio Members

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Matthew J. Kuehnert, M.D., FACP
CAPT, US Public Health Service
Director, Office of Blood, Organ, and other Tissue Safety
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCPDCID, CCID
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
1600 Clifton Road, Building 1, MS A30
Atlanta, GA 30333

Food and Drug Administration
Jay S. Epstein, M.D.
Director
Office of Blood Research and Review
Food and Drug Administration
1401 Rockville Pike, HFM-300
Rockville, MD 20852

National Institutes of Health
Harvey Klein, M.D.
Director
Division of Transfusion Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Building 10, Room 1C711
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-1184

Department of Defense
Monique Hollis-Perry, M.D.
CDR, Medical Corps, US Navy
Medical Director, Blood Bank Division
Staff Pathologist
Naval Medical Center
34800 Bob Wilson Drive
San Diego, CA 92134-5000

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(Pending)
CMS/CMM/CCPG  Mail Stop C5-02-23
7500 Security Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21244

Food and Drug Administration
Laura St. Martin, M.D., M.P.H.
LCDR, USPHS
FDA/CBER/OCTGT/Division of Human Tissue
1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 200S
Rockville, MD 20852

Health Resources and Services Administration
Jim Bowman, M.D., M.S.M., FACS
Division of Transplantation Room 12C-06
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857