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Program Participants

Forty-Third Annual Symposium: Thursday, September 19, 2024

Titilope A. Fasipe, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, 
Baylor College of Medicine, 
Houston, TX

Valentina Baez Sosa, MD
Director, Office of Translational Science in the Office of the Scientific Director
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Patricia Lee, DO, JD
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Yafet Mamo, MD
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Kamille West-Mitchell, MD
Chief, Blood Services Section, 
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Tsung-Lin Tsai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

David C. Mair, MD
Medical Director , MN-Dak & NE-IA Regions 
American Red Cross Blood Services
St. Paul, MN

Alcinda Flowers, MD
Medical Director, Special Patient Services, CLIA Lab Director, Specialized Production Lab
Versiti-Blood Center of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Mary Townsend, MD
Vice President, Corporate Medical Director
Vitalant
Scottsdale, AZ

Ellen McSweeney, MBBCh, FRCPath
Medical Council Specialist Division: Hematology
Co Limerick, Ireland

Neng Yu, MD
Senior Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Services
American Red Cross Blood Services
Director, Clinical Pathology and Director Histocompatibility Laboratory, UMass Memorial Medical Center
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, UMass Medical Center
Foxboro, MA

Opal Reddy, MD
Assistance Professor of Clinical Pathology
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

William Ward, PhD
Associate Director, HLA Laboratory
Shelby, NC

Gerald Sandler, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Matthew Hsieh, MD
Cellular and Molecular Therapeutic Branch
NHLBI, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Glenn Ramsey, MD
Professor of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago IL

Sandra Taddei Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)SBB
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Sandhya Panch, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology
Medical Director of Transfusion, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
University of Washington
Seattle Washington

Harvey Klein, MD
Department of Transfusion Medicine, CC, NIH 
Bethesda, MD

Susan Leitman, MD
Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education, NIH
Bethesda, MD