Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
Membership Roster
The HHS Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation (ACBSCT), Health Resources and Services Administration includes the following members:
Voting Members:
Karl Blume, M.D.- ACBSCT, Chair
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Senior Cancer Research Program Advisor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Claudio Anasetti, M.D.
Professor of Oncology and Medicine
Chief, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Tampa, Florida
Frederick Appelbaum, M.D.
Director, Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor and Head, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Deborah Banker, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research Communications
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
White Plains, New York
Michelle Bishop, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida
Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Chairman and Mary Margaret Walther
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Scientific Director of the Walther Oncology Center
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana
Clive Callender, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Chair, Department of Surgery
Howard University Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia
Richard Champlin, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Houston, Texas
Liana Harvath, Ph.D.
Consultant
Rockville, Maryland
Mutsuko Holiman, R.N.
Clinical Nurse
Youville Hospital
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Chief, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Bertram Lubin, M.D.
President, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Oakland, California
Edgar Milford, Jr., M.D.
Director, Tissue Typing Laboratory
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Robertson Parkman, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Southern California
Division of Research Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplantation,
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, California
Rebecca Pentz, Ph.D.
Professor, Hematology/Oncology in Research Ethics
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Elizabeth Read, M.D.
Director, Cell and Tissue Therapies
Blood Systems Research Institute
San Francisco, California
Donna Regan, M.T. (ASCP), S.B.B.
Executive Director
St. Louis Cord Blood Bank/Progenitor Cell Laboratory
St. Louis, Missouri
Pablo Rubinstein, M.D.
Director, National Cord Blood Program
Head, Fred H. Allen Laboratory of Immunogenetics
New York Blood Center
New York, New York
Stephen Sprague
Cord Blood Consultant
Patient Advocate
Staten Island, New York
Charles Sims, M.D.
Medical Director and Co-founder
California Cryobank, Incorporated
Los Angeles, California
Susan Stewart
Executive Director
Blood and Marrow Transplant Information Net
Highland Park, Illinois
Robyn Yim, M.D., M.B.A.
President and Medical Director
Blood Bank of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Non-voting Members – Ex Officio (Appointed Federal Representatives)
James Bowman, M.D., FACS
Medical Officer
CMM/Chronic Care Policy Group
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Richard C. Durbin, MBA
Acting Director, Division of Transplantation
Healthcare Systems Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Nancy DiFronzo, Ph.D.
Program Director
Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapeutics Branch
Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
Robert Hartzman, M.D., Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Director
C.W. Bill Young Marrow Donor Recruitment and Research Program
Department of Defense Marrow Donor Recruitment and Research Program
Bone Marrow Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center
Department of the Navy
Matthew Kuehnert, M.D., FACP
Director
Office of Blood, Organ, and Tissue Safety (Proposed)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Ellen Lazarus, M.D.
Captain, USPHS
Medical Officer
Division of Human Tissues
Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
