Prof. Domenico Girelli

Institution

University of Verona, Department of Medicine

Specialty

Internal Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Veneto Region Referral Center for Iron Metabolism Disorders, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona
• Center of Excellence of EuroBloodNet (European Reference Network for Rare Hematological Diseases)

Brief Resume

• 2016 to Present: Coordinator of the AOUI-VR Multidisciplinary Team on Rare Hematological Disorders, official partner of the European Reference Network (ERN) “EuroBloodNet” appointed by EU Commission.
• 2016 to Present: Member of the Advisory Board, Cariverona Foundation.
• 2015 to Present: Veneto Region Referral Centre for Diagnosis and Therapy of Disorders of Iron Metabolism at Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona.
• 2012 to Present: Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Verona
• 2011 to Present: Head of the Multidisciplinary Team for Iron Disorders of the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona (AOUI-VR)
• 2009 to Present: Head of Unit of Urgency Medicine, at the Unit of Internal Medicine “B”, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona.

Dr Bronwyn Pearse

Institution

The Prince Charles Hospital

Specialty

Clinical Nurse Consultant specialising in PBM, Implementation and Knowledge Translation

Academic Affiliations

• Griffith University
• University of the Sunshine Coast

Brief Resume

• 1988: Registered Nurse
• 2000: Graduate Certificate (Critical Care)
• 2009: Master of Clinical Practice
• 2021: PhD
• Member: Australian National Blood Authority Patient Blood Management Committee
• Deputy Chair: Metro North Hospital and Health Service Blood Management Committee
• Numerous Working Group Memberships (current and past) supporting PBM with the Australian National Blood Authority, Australian Health Commission, Australian Jurisdictional Blood Commission and the World Health Organisation

Prof. Luca Paolo Weltert

Institution

European Hospital

Specialty

Heart Surgery

Academic Affiliations

• Saint Camillus International University for Health Sciences – Rome

Brief Resume

• Dr Weltert graduated in Medicine in Turin in 2001
• Specialized in Heart Surgery in Genua in 2006 working since then in the team of Prof. De Paulis at the European Hospital in Rome
• Has led in the past ten years the experimental surgery laboratory, publishing over 60 papers regarding the aortic root in his clincal, physiological and experimental aspects, blood conservation strategies, bioprosthetis performance and durability, external stenting for coronary artery bypass grafts and many more, some of which are now part of the joint American-European guidelines.
• Clinically specialized in coronary, aortic valve and ascending aorta surgery
• Since 2018 leads the Statistics Department of the S.Camillus International University of Health Sciences located in Rome.

Dr. Kevin Trentino

Institution

The University of Western Australia

Specialty

Health Service Research, Data Science, Public Health

Brief Resume

• Postdoctoral clinical researcher working in the fields of population health, medicine, and health sciences
• Senior healthcare analyst supporting Western Australian hospitals and health services with expertise in data and statistical methods to drive patient safety and quality
• Research interests in patient blood management, statistical and machine learning models for clinical prediction, health economics, public health, and health services benchmarking
• Memberships: World Health Organisation expert working group for the implementation of Patient Blood Management. Executive Committee, Western Australia Patient Blood Management Group. Australasian Correspondent, Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management

Prof Paolo Simioni

Institution

University of Padua Medical School

Specialty

Internal Medicine and Cardiology

Academic Affiliations

Director, Thrombotic and Hemorrhagic Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine – DIMED, University of Padua Medical School

Brief Resume

• 1992 to Present: Physician, Dept. of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Head of Thrombotic and Hemorrhagic Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine of Padua University Hospital.
• 2015 to Present: Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Padua.
• 2015 to Present: President of the Council of Physicians and Dentists of Padua area.
• 1998 – 2005: Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Padua.
• 1984: Medicine and Surgery degree, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy.
• Chief and coordinator of a Research Group at the Thrombotic and Hemorrhagic Diseases Unit of the University Hospital of Padua

Dr. Herbert Schöchl

Institution

AUVA Trauma Hospital Salzburg

Specialty

Traumatology

Academic Affiliations

University Innsbruck

Brief Resume

• Medical studies at the University of Innsbruck with a PhD in 1984
• 1985 – 1987 AUVA Trauma Center Salzburg and Oberndorf Hospital
• 1987 start of training as a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care at the University Hospital Salzburg
• 1992 – 1996 OA in the field of cardiac surgery
• 1996 – 1997 senior OA at the Dept. f.. Vascular surgery
• 1992 – 1998 Deputy Head of the emergency system Salzburg with rescue helicopters and ambulances
• 1987 – 2006 ambulance at rescue helicopters Salzburg and the ambulance of the city of Salzburg
• Since 1998 OA at AUVA Trauma Center Salzburg.
• November 2009 to October 2011 exemption for research at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna.
• 2012 head of a working group “Trauma-induced coagulopathy” at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology.
• 2012 Habilitation in special anaesthesiology and intensive care with the theme: “Diagnosis and therapy trauma-induced coagulation disorders using visco-elastic test procedures”.
• PDDr. Herbert Schöchl is a founding member of the working groups ÖGARI “Perioperative coagulation”.
• Primary interest of research focuses on diagnoses and treatment strategies of trauma-induced coagulopathy. He developed hemostatic treatment algorithms based on visco-elastic test results.
• Author of over 90 publications and reviewer for major journals. Moreover, he is chair of the Austrian task force for “perioperative coagulation management” of the Austrian Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Dr. Simon Towler

Institution

Fiona Stanley Hospital

Specialty

Intensive Care Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Western Australia,
• Adjunct Professor, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia,
• Member Curtin Medical School Advisory Board, Curtin University, Western Australia

Brief Resume

• Medical Co-Director, Service 4, Fiona Stanley Hospital, South Metropolitan Health Service since 2013
• Chief Medical Officer of Western Australia from 2006 to 2012
  Executive Director, Health Policy and Clinical Reform Division,WA Department of Health 2005 to 2008
• National Blood Authority Haemovigilance Working Group Co-chair 2006 to 2008, Patient Blood Management Committee Chair, 2009 – 2013 and Member 2013 to 2016
• Other appointments with the Australasian Association for Blood Conservation (2000-2010), Australian Medical Association (1997-2013), Medical Board of Western Australia (2007-2010), National Health and Medical Research Council (2006-2012), Western Australia Institute for Medical Research (2006-2012)

Mr. Stuart Swain

Institution

HealthBench Pty Ltd

Specialty

Analysis and Information Services to Healthcare

Brief Resume

• Career began as an Information Technology professional, initially in network and systems administration before moving on to develop client information system software
• Over 20 years experience in the health industry, working across a diverse range of departments and projects, since 2006 specialized in hospital analysis, healthcare Business Intelligence, and designing innovative reporting solutions to meet the crucial information requirements of clinicians
• Responsible for building the South Metropolitan Health Service clinical activity data warehouse, an extensive repository of inpatient, outpatient and ED data used for operational and strategic reporting, activity based funding and management, research, and analysis purposes
• Recently developed the Western Australian Patient Blood Management data system, which is a world first and has been presented internationally to wide acclaim
• Presented at state and national conferences on Activity Based Funding and Patient Blood Management, developed and delivered training courses, and has particular interest in using data to drive clinical reform leading to improved patient outcomes

Prof. Bruce Spiess

Institution

University of Florida, College of Medicine

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

• University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Brief Resume

• Graduated from Rush University Medical College, Chicago, USA in 1980 (Doctor of Medicine)
• Chief Resident at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA from 1982 to 1983
• On the Department of Anesthesiology Search Committee to develop new research lines and Associate Director/Senior Fellow for Johnson Center for Critical Care and Pulmonary Research at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Spent over 34 years in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, specializing in blood research, blood product/transfusion risk/benefits, coagulation function, critical O2 delivery as well as blood substitutes/O2 therapeutics (particularly perfluorocarbon emulsions-PFCs). His work has helped lead the world in the development of Patient Blood Management

Prof. Donat R. Spahn

Institution

University Hospital of Zürich

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Brief Resume

• Professor and Chairman at the Institute of Anesthesiology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
• Awarded his medical degree at the University of Zurich, before completing several clinical and research posts within Switzerland and the United States
• Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University and University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, for six years prior to his current position
• Primary research areas include concepts to minimise the use of perioperative blood products and the management of massive bleeding
• One of the Founders of Patient Blood Management, involved in the development of the European guidelines for the management of bleeding following major trauma
• Published more than 355 scientific articles,14 books and more than 40 chapters, including numerous original papers and review articles regarding the transfusion of blood products. H-index of 64.
• Served on the editorial board for various anaesthesia journals and has participated in numerous committees and scientific advisory boards.
• Languages: English, German, French

Prof. Aryeh Shander

Institution

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Specialty

Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Academic Affiliations

University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA

Brief Resume

• Received his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont, USA and completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, where he also served as Chief Resident. Additional postgraduate training included a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine and a residency in Anesthesiology, both at Montefiore Medical Center
• Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Anesthesiology and Hyperbaric Medicine
• Executive Medical Director of the Institute for Patient Blood Management & Blood Medicine and Surgery at Englewood Hospital, which under his direction, received the NJBIZ Magazine’s 2010 Healthcare Hero Award
• Lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of topics related to anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and patient blood management, notably, blood conservation in medical and surgical patients, volume resuscitation, management of anemia, perfusion techniques, novel hemostatic agents, and artificial blood.
• Currently serving as a member of Editorial Board of the Transfusion journal and the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and the author/editor of multiple book chapters and contributes to textbooks on blood management, such as Perioperative Transfusion Medicine 2nd Edition (2006) by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Perioperative Blood Management: A Physician’s Handbook, 1st Edition (2006) and 2nd Edition (2009) by American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM), Basics of Blood Management 1st Edition (2007) by Blackwell, and Health Care Costs: Causes, Effects and Control (2009) by Nova Science Publishers
• Reviewer for the journals Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and Transfusion among others
• Serves as President for the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) and is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Chest Physicians.
• Founding member of the Board of Directors and was a Past President for National Anemia Action Council (NAAC) and a founding member and treasurer of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA) where he serves on committees, both locally and nationally, and in addition, is a member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) where he serves as Chair of Committee on Patient Blood Management

Dr Dirk Schrijvers

Institution

Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen

Specialty

Medical oncology

Academic Affiliations

• University Antwerp

Brief Resume

• 1986 – 1987: University of Antwerp, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium)
• 1987 – 1988: Centre International de Recherches Medicales. Services d’Epidemio­logie et Retrovirologie. Franceville (Gabon) WHO reference centre / Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen; Dept. of Epidemiology en Social Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
• 1988 – 1992: University of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium). Specialisation “Internal Medine »
• 1988 – 1989: AZ St. Jozef, Turnhout (Belgium).
• 1989 – 1990: AZ Jan Palfijn, Merksem (Belgium).
• 1990 – 1991: UZA, Edegem (Belgium): Department of Hematology
• 1991 – 1993: UZA (Edegem): Department Medical Oncology.
• 1993 – 2000: Medical Oncologist, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem (Belgium).
• 1/12/00-31/12/2002: Medical Oncologist, AZ Jan Palfijn, Merksem (Belgium)
• From 1/1/2003: Medical Oncologist, Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen (ZNA) Middelheim, Antwerp (Belgium)
• From 1/7/2006: Head of the Department Hematology-Oncology, ZNA Middelheim (Belgium)
• From 1/1/2008: Head of the Department Medical Oncology ZNA-Middelheim

Dr. Angel Augusto Pérez Calatayud

Institution

Hospital General de Mexico Dr. Eduardo Liceaga

Specialty

Emergency Medicine / Critical Care Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Patient Blood Management Chapter Director COMMEC
• Secretary SOMETH
• Academic Co-ordinator COMEOC
• Adjunct Professor Obstetric Critical Care UNAM

Brief Resume

Specialist in emergency medicine and critical care medicine

Head of Critical Care Division in Mexico’s General Hospital Dr. Eduardo Liceaga

Patient Blood Management Chapter Director for the Mexican Colleges of Critical Care Medicine (COMMEC)

Secretary of the Mexican Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasia (SOMETH)

Research Committee for the Mexican Society of Anesthesiology in Gtnecology and Obstetrics 2016-2018

Adjunct Professor of Obstetric Critical Care Mexican Autonomous Nacional University (UNAM)

3 years working and implementing Patient Blood Management (PBM) in Mexico, in this time has co-ordinated the Mexican National guideliones for PBM with the National Center of Excellence in Health Technology (CENETEC)

Has worked with the Mexican National health authorities in the implementation of PBM as a Quality Standard for Hospital Certification, promoting alliances with different medical collegesand societies for the academic diffusion of PBM

Published with the Mexican College of Anestesiology the Mexican Clinics of Anesthesiology for PBM

Dr. Seth Perelman

Institution

NYU Langone Health

Specialty

Cardiac Anesthesiologist

Academic Affiliations

• New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Brief Resume

• 2003 – 2016 Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
• 2016 – 2017 Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
• 07/1993-02/2016 Attending, Anesthesiology, Englewood Hospital & Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey
• 03/2016 Attending, Anesthesiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
• 03/2016 Attending, Anesthesiology, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY
• 10/2017 Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY, NY
• Major Research Interests include: Patient Blood Management – topics related to blood conservation, including acute normovolemic hemodilution, cell salvage, surgical blood management, management of preoperative anemia and bloodless management of the cardiac and non-cardiac surgery patient.
• Interests have enabled Dr. Perelman to participate in various national societies both at the committee member level as well as in leadership positions and has provided the opportunity to lecture nationally and internationally.

 

Dr. Marco Pavesi

Institution

Humanitas Cliniche Gavazzeni SpA

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

Universita degli Studi of Milan – Faculty of Nursing

Brief Resume

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery at University Statale of Milan 1986/7
• Postgraduate specialization in Anaesthesiologyand Intensive Care at University Statale of Milan 1989/90
• Experience in cardiovascular surgery, abdominal and thoracic surgery, urology, orthopaedic and trauma surgery
• Pre-operative assessment of surgical patients with transfusional risk, preparative treatment of haemoglobin optimization and application of perioperative blood conservation techniques
• Since 2010, Director of ‘PBM Program’ at IRCCS Policlino S. Donato
• Co-founding member of ANEMO, Italian Scientific Association 2013
• Scientific Director of conferences and lectures, participation in conferences and courses as a Speaker and Chairman, author of several scientific publications
• Currently involved in a project related to ‘PBM Program’ implementation at Humanitas Gavazzeni Bergamo

Sherri Ozawa, RN

Institution

Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

Specialty

Clinical Director, Registered Nurse specializing in PBM practice

Brief Resume

• 1995 – Present: Board of Directors/Executive Director/Chair of Communications, Founding Member Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM)
• 2012 – Present: Executive Director Society for the Advancement of Blood Management Englewood, NJ
• 2012 – Present: Co Investigator, Multi Center Investigational Study, CSL Behring “Costs of Plasma Transfusion in the Hospital Setting”
• 2009 – Present: Co Investigator, Federal Grant, United States Department of Defense
• 2009 – Present: Co Investigator, Investigational Study, “Activity Based Costing in Red Blood Cell Transfusion”
• 2000 – 2003: Clinical Research Coordinator, New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services, Bloodless Demonstration Project
• 1999 – Present: Study Coordinator, Protocol OXHT-016-INT
• 1999 – 2000: Clinical Research Study Coordinator, Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation
• 1993 – 1995: Staff Nurse, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ

Dr. Lena Napolitano

Institution

University of Michigan

Specialty

Surgery, Critical Care, Trauma

Academic Affiliations

• Massey Foundation Professor of Surgery

Brief Resume

• Dr. Lena M. Napolitano is the Massey Foundation Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Founding Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery [Trauma, Burns, Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery] in 2005, and Director of Surgical Critical Care, for the Department of Surgery.
• She is Associate Director of the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC). Dr. Napolitano is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery as well as Surgical Critical Care.
• She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians, and a Master of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
• She holds leadership positions in numerous professional organizations in surgery, trauma and surgical critical care. She is Senior Director of the American Board of Surgery, and an elected member of the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents.
• Dr. Napolitano has a research effort in trauma and surgical critical care, anemia and blood product transfusion, and is Principal Investigator on a number of research grants focused on translational research.
• She has been a mentor to over 200 research and surgical critical care fellows. Her research group has received numerous awards.
• She has over 350 peer-reviewed publications, and 118 book chapters, and has been an invited lecturer at many national and international symposia and a Visiting Professor at many institutions over the course of her career.

Prof. Manuel Muñoz

Institution

University of Málaga, School of Medicine

Specialty

Perioperative Transfusion Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Publications

• Licentiate of Medicine, University of Málaga, Spain 1980
• Licentiate of Medicine degree (with honours), University of Málaga, Spain 1982
• Post-graduate Honorary Research Fellow, King’s College London, UK, 1984
• Doctorate of Medicine, University of Málaga, Spain, 1985
• Post-doctorate Fleming Award, King’s College London, UK, 1986
• Post-doctorate Research Assistant, King’s College London, UK, 1987
• Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1992
• Currently Professor, Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
  Since 2000, has been actively researching Patient Blood Management strategies with emphasis on perioperative anaemia management, bleeding control, and cell salvage. Over 200 publications in the field, including original research, reviews, consensus statements and book chapters
• Coordinator of international consensus documents on anaemia management in surgery, obstetrics and cancer, and on postpartum haemorrhage management. Presently coordinator of the Seville’s Document update.
• Supervised 15 PhD Thesis on topics related to PBM, 3 of which with honours. Teaching activities have been focused on perioperative transfusion medicine, nutrition and dietetics, and medical biochemistry
• Clinical areas of interest are perioperative anaemia management, with special interest in iron homeostasis and point-of-care monitoring
• Network for advancement of Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Thrombosis and Haemostasis (NATA). Member of the Board of Directors
• European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Member.
• International Multidisciplinary Autotransfusion Study Group (GIEMSA). Coordinator.
• Anaemia Working Group España (AWGE). Vice-Coordinator.
• Spanish Society of Haematology and Haemotherapy (SEHH). Member.
• Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion (SETS). Member.
• Spanish Society of Critical Care Medicine (SEMICYUC). Member.

Prof. Jens Meier

Institution

Kepler Universitätsklinikum (General Hospital)

Specialty

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

Academic Affiliations

• University of Linz, Austria

Brief Resume

Graduated from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Held positions in the Clinics of Anesthesiology at hospitals in Munich and Frankfurt (a. M.), Germany, before becoming a Resident at the Clinic of Anesthesiology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (a. M.)

Associate Professor in Anesthesiology, Frankfurt (a. M.) in 2009 and the Principal investigator in four different clinical studies (Phoenix NCT00021502, ACCESS: NCT00334828, OASIS: NCT01273779, HYPOX)

Appointed ‘Oberarzt’ to the Intensive Care Unit at the Clinic of Anesthesiology of the Eberhard Karls University, Frankfurt (a. M.) in 2012

Head of the Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany in the same year before taking his current position as Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in the General Hospital, Linz, Austria.

Member of the scientific committee of the NATA and the subcommittee 6 of the European Society of Anesthesiology

Dr Hamish Mace

Consultant Anaesthetist, private practice

Specialty

Anaesthesia

Brief Resume

2015 – present Consultant Anaesthetist, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Western Australia. Medical director, Perioperative Anaemia programme, Fiona Stanley Hospital

2013/14 – Fellow, Abdominal transplantation programme, Toronto General Hospital, ON, Canada

2013 – Fellow, Obstetric Anaesthesia, Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

2012 – Fellow, retrieval medicine, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Western Operations

Prof. Vernon Louw

Institution

University of Cape Town

Specialty

Clinical Haematology

Academic Affiliations

• Chair and Head Clinical Haematology, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Brief Resume

• Clinical Haematologist in Panorama Mediclinic, Cape Town February 2015 and Honorary Professor in the Division Haematology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town from 2015 to April 2018.
• Affiliated Professor at the University of the Free State and the University of Stellenbosch since February 2015.
• Until January 2015, Professor and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• After completing his medical degree (MBChB) and specialist training as physician (M.Med in Internal Medicine) at the University of Stellenbosch (both summa cum laude), he spent three years at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Universitaire Ziekenhuis Gasthuisberg in Leuven, Belgium in Clinical Haematology from January 2001 to December 2003.
• In January 2004, accepted the position of Head of Clinical Haematology at the University of the Free State. Obtained his PhD in Health Professions Education at the University of the Free State on the development of a postgraduate education programme for medical doctors in Transfusion Medicine in 2011. This contributed to the development of the first Anglophone Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s Degree Programmes in Transfusion Medicine in Africa.
• Acting Head (April 2013) and then Head (September 2013) of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of the Free State. His research focus is in Transfusion Medicine Education, Patient Blood Management and HIV-related hematological malignancies.
• Authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals with more than 200 poster and oral presentations at national and international meetings. His vision is to develop online learning platforms so that world-class medical teaching would be freely available anywhere in the world.

Prof. Hartmut Link

Institution

Westpfalz-Klinikum Kaiserslautern

Specialty

Hematology,Ooncology, Stem cell transplantation, Diabetes

Academic Affiliations

• Hannover Medical School

Brief Resume

• 1977 – 1984 training as a doctor of internal medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, research associate at the Collaborative Research Center “leukemia research and Immunogenetics”
• 1985 chief physician at the Department of Hematology and Oncology, and in the center of Internal Medicine at the Hannover Medical School (MHH)
• 1989 Venia legendi of Internal Medicine, Hannover Medical School
• 1992 additional hematology and oncology
• 1994 appointment as professor, Hannover Medical School
• 1/1998 – 3/2017 Chief Physician of the Department of Internal Medicine I, focuses hematology, oncology, stem cell transplantation, Diabetes, Westpfalz-Klinikum Kaiserslautern

 

Dr. Cheuk-Kwong LEE

Institution

Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service

Specialty

Haematology and Transfusion Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong.
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Brief Resume

• Received his undergraduate and medical training at the University of Hong Kong and became specialist in Haematology and Haematological oncology at the Queen Mary Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• After 8 years of clinical work, he moved to Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service where he became the head of Blood Collection and Donor Recruitment Department. Apart from his role in securing safe and adequate blood supply to patients in Hong Kong, Dr Lee is also the head of Hong Kong Bone Marrow Donor Registry which provide unrelated haematopoietic stem cells to patients undergoing transplantation.
• Dr Lee has developed interest at transfusion microbiology and donor health and medicine. He has made extensive contribution in understanding and implementing preventive measure in minimizing transfusion transmitted bacterial sepsis. Besides, as healthy and committed donors are success to the blood service, Dr Lee has been actively involved in studies to understand and minimize donation related vasovagal reaction and donors’ haemoglobin and iron.
• Recently, he and his team are actively working to increase the awareness and knowledge of the territory on Blood Supply, Blood Transfusion and Patient Blood Management.

Prof. Sigismond Lasocki

Institution

University Hospital Angers

Specialty

Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Academic Affiliations

• University of Angers, France

Brief Resume

• Awarded his medical degree and MD at the University Denis Diderot, in Paris; passed his PhD at the INSERM in Paris
• Member of the intensive care committee of the SFAR (French society of anesthesiology and critical care), the committee of nutrition and of perioperative medicine of the ESICM
• Head of the Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Emergency department at the University Hospital in Angers since 2013
• Areas of expertise are anemia and iron metabolism in critically ill and perioperative patients
• Develops a Patient Blood Management program at his institution, the OZeT program (“Objective Zero Transfusion”)
• Head of a laboratory research team, part of the MitoLab Institute at Angers medical University. The lab research explores the cellular mechanisms of fatigue and muscular weakness of iron deficiency in an mouse model of iron deficiency without anemia
• Published over 90 journal articles, including numerous original papers and review articles regarding patient blood management and iron treatment
• Served in the editorial board of intensive care medicine journal, and has participated in numerous committees and scientific advisory boards

Prof. Jeong Jae Lee

Institution

Soonchunhyang University Hospital

Specialty

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Academic Affiliations

• Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Brief Resume

• Completed his specialization in obstetrics and gynaecology at Soonchunhyang University in Korea in 1991, Masters in 1993, PhD in 1998
• Committee Member of the Health Reassurances Assessment Department, Korea Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service
• Currently Director of Soonchunhyang Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery
• His clinical research articles on PBM in obstetrics and gynecology have been published in international journals
• He and his colleague organized the Korean Society of Patient Blood Management and he served as the first chairman from 2014 to 2016
• In recent years his efforts have focused on the implementation and collaboration of PBM between Asian countries and South Korea

Dr Michael Leahy

Consultant Haematologist, Royal Perth Hospital

Institution

Royal Perth Hospital

Specialty

Haematology

Academic Affiliations

• School of Medicine & Pharmacology, School of Pathology, University of Western Australia

Brief Resume

• Deputy Network Director South Metropolitan Health Service / Fiona Stanley Hospital Network, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital
• Head of Department of Clinical Haematology, Consultant Haematologist, Royal Perth Hospital
• Clinical Professor in Medicine, School of Medicine & Pharmacology, School of Pathology, University of Western Australia
• Patient Blood Management, Western Australian State Medical Director, June 2014 – July 2015
• Director Patient Blood Management Program, Western Australian Department of Health/Fremantle Hospital & Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, Fremantle, Australia. Sept 2009 – Jan 2015
• Consultant Haematologist and Head of Department, Fremantle Hospital & Health Service South Metropolitan Health Service, Fremantle, Australia

Dr. Johann Kurz

Institution

Retired from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health

Specialty

Advisor on Substances of Human Origin

Brief Resume

• Austrian Federal Ministry of Health (retired 2013)
• Senior Advisor to EU projects, regulatory bodies and companies in the field of inspections, audits and regulatory compliance of blood, tissues, biologicals and sterile pharmaceuticals implementing and maintaining quality risk management, Good Manufacturing Practice, and Patient Blood Management as well as Optimal Blood Use in hospitals.
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Prof. Young Woo Kim

Institution

National Cancer Center, Gastric Cancer Branch

Specialty

Oncology, Gastroenterology

Academic Affiliations

• Chief Scientist and Head of the Gastric Cancer Branch, Division of Common Cancers, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea
• Chief of the Gastric Cancer Branch, Research Institute and Head, Division of Translational & Clinical Research
• Department of Cancer Control and Policy, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy

Brief Resume

• Graduated from Seoul National University School of Medicine in 1988
• Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University from 1999 – 2002
• Interested in Patient Blood Management and transfusion alternatives since 2001. Among his over 4,000 gastrectomies experiences including over 1,500 laparoscopic and 200 robotic gastrectomies so far, the transfusion rate is less than 0.5%. Blood loss during the laparoscopic or robotic surgery is less than 20 ml over 90 % of the cases
• Currently president of Korea Patient Blood Management Group (KPBM) which he has participated as a founding member two years ago
• Published over 224 original articles and several book chapters for Laparoscopic Gastrectomy, Textbook of Oncology, Textbook of Gastric Cancer in Korea. His main publication is for first level 1 evidence for role of laparoscopic gastrectomy in Annals of Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy (COACT 1301 trial)

Prof. Tae-Yop Kim

Institution

Konkuk University Medical Center

Specialty

Anesthesiology, Cardiac Anesthesia

Academic Affiliations

• Academic Affiliations: Korean Society of Anesthesiologists-Director of Academic Affair
• Korean Society of Geriatric Anesthesia and Pain
• Korean Society of Anesthetic Pharmacology
• Korean Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiologists
• Korean Society of Patient Blood Management-Director of Academic Affair

Brief Resume

• Bachelor Degree, Master Degree, Ph.D., Chonnam National University Graduate School, Gwangju, Korea
• 1999-2001: Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Masan Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Masan, Korea
• 2001-2002: Director and Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Masan Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea
• 2002-2004: Director and Assistant Professor, Department Anesthesiology, Masan Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea
• 2004.6-2005.6: Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• 2005.6-2005.8: Director and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Konkuk University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
• 2005.9-2010.8: Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
• 2010.9-present: Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Peter Kastner

Institution

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Competence Unit – Digital Health Information Systems

Specialty

ICT for clinical trials, benchmarking services and tele-health solutions

Brief Resume

Senior engineer with over 20 years of experience in R&D for medical informatics and eHealth services in the health care environment

Project Manager of the European Patient Blood Management Project (www.europe-pbm.eu) and coauthor of the European Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Building national programmes of Patient Blood Management in the EU – A guide for health authorities; Supporting Patient Blood Management in the EU – A practical implementation guide for hospitals

Expert in quality management, GCP and European medical device regulation

Senior Project Manager for national and international IT projects in the healthcare environment

Has contributed at national and international conferences and workshops and is published in scientific journals

Prof. Christakis Kassianides

Institution

Morningside Medi clinic Johannesburg

Specialty

Gastroenterology

Academic Affiliations

• Associate Professor University of Cape Town, South Africa

Brief Resume

• Associate Professor in Department of Medicine University of Cape Town Chairman Gastroenterology Foundation of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
• Gastroenterologist Morningside Mediclinic
• Following graduation in 1979 from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg South Africa, and completion of a fellowship with the College of Physicians in South Africa, in 1986 joined the Liver Unit of the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC where he spent a number of years researching the antiviral therapy of the hepatitis B and C viruses.
• This was followed by GI Fellowships at Georgetown University in Washington DC and Cornell Hospital in New York City.
• In 1990 moved to Hong Kong and joined the Prince of Wales Hospital as a Visiting Lecturer.
• Returned to South Africa in 1991 and established a private practice in Johannesburg.
• Over the past 25 years has been actively involved in the Continual Medical Education of GI/Hepatology fellows and Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists in practice both in South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa.
• 2006 founded and currently chairs the Gastroenterology Foundation of SSA.
• 2019 established and co- chairs GHASSA (Gastroenterology and Hepatology Association of SSA).
• 2018 awarded an Associate Professorship from the University of Cape Town.

Dr. Mazyar Javidroozi

Institution

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Specialty

Statistics and Research Methodology

Academic Affiliations

• Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Brief Resume

• Senior Scientist (2005 – Present) Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ
• Clinical Research Consultant and President (2008 – Present) Pacific Research Consultation, Inc., Irvine, CA
• Research Assistant (2005 – 2008) Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
• Researcher (2003 – 2005) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, and
• Molecular Neurogenetics Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY
• PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology (Pathology and Immunology), State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
• MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
• SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS: – Patient blood management interventions lead to important benefits for major surgery. Comment on Br J Anaesth (2021)
• Patient blood management during the COVID-19 pandemic – a narrative review. Anaesthesia (2020)
• The Essential Role of Patient Blood Management in a Pandemic: A Call for Action. Anesth Analg (2020) – In search of the lost blood. Blood Transfus (2020)
• The effect of a novel intravenous fluid (Oxsealife®) on recovery from haemorrhagic shock in pigs. Anaesthesia (2019)
• Blood Transfusion in Sepsis and Iatrogenic Hemodilution. Am J Crit Care (2018)
• Real-time evaluation of an image analysis system for monitoring surgical hemoglobin loss. J Clin Monit Comput (2018)
• Rethinking the role of postoperative critical care in an inequitable world. J Thorac Dis (2017)
• Patient Blood Management in the Intensive Care Unit. Transfus Med Rev (2017)
• Complications of Allogeneic Blood Product Administration, with Emphasis on Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury and Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload. Adv Anesth (2017)

Prof. Hongwen JI

Institution

Fuwai Hospital

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

• Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
• Beijing Union Medical College

Brief Resume

• Member of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, under Chinese Society of Cardiothoracic Vascular Anesthesiology
• Founder of the Fuwai Hospital non-transfusion program, a program that from 2008 to 2014 reduced ~62% of blood transfusion
• Writer of China Cardiovascular surgery PBM consensus, and the Co-writer of China orthopedic PBM consensus
• Widely published and his research focus is on Multidisciplinary Patient Blood Management Strategy Reduce Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery

Prof. James Isbister

Institution

Medical School, University of Sydney

Specialty

Haematology and Transfusion Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Clinical Professor of Medicine, Medical School, University of Sydney
• Emeritus Consultant in Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney

Brief Resume

• Undergraduate at the University of NSW and did postgraduate training at St Vincent’s Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London
• Main career has been at Royal North Shore Hospital as Head of the Department of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine being appointed Consultant Emeritus in 2004
• Currently chair of the massive transfusion registry at Monash University, Melbourne and chair of the National Blood Authority PBM steering committee
• Broad range of clinical, research and teaching interests in haematology, transfusion medicine and patient blood management and has received acknowledgement with several National and International awards including membership of the Order of Australia
• One of the early advocates for moving blood transfusion from a product focus to a patient focus and differentiating patient blood management from donor blood management

Prof. Oliver Habler

Institution

Krankenhaus Nordwest

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

University of Frankfurt a. M.

Brief Resume

• Graduated from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1999
• Head of the Anesthesiology department at the Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt a. M. since 2006
• Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2014
• Involved in the development of patient blood management concepts targeting in the reduction of perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion; acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH); intraoperative blood salvage and autotransfusion („cell-salvage“); identification of the optimal transfusion threshold; therapeutic increase of anemia tolerance; hyperoxic hemodilution; artificial oxygen carriers (haemoglobin-based artificial oxygen carriers HBOC, perfluorocarbons), reduction of perioperative blood losses by an early goal directed differentiated coagulation management, avoidance of allogeneic plasma transfusion.

Prof. Thorsten Haas

Institution

University of Florida

Specialty

Patient Blood Management

Brief Resume

• Medical degree from Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
• Consultant in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
• 2007 – 2009 Medical Director for Clinical Research & Development at CSL Behring in Marburg, Germany
• 2011 Leading Consultant, Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
• Recently implemented a Pediatric Patient Blood Management Program at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich
• Member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) Subgroup for Perioperative Coagulation Management
• Member of the Scientific Committee for the Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA)

Dr. Irwin Gross

Institution

Accumen Inc.

Specialty

Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Academic Affiliations

University of Michigan Medical School

Brief Resume

• Chief of Pathology at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC, where he started the patient blood management program in 2006)
• Medical Director of Laboratories at Affiliated Laboratories, Inc., and as Medical Director of Transfusion Services from 1987 through 2014.
• SABM board member, chairing the Standards Committee and published the first Administrative and Clinical Standards for PBM in 2011.
• Member of AABB/SABM Patient Blood Management Advisory Group
• Member of Laboratory medicine Best Practices (LMBP™) 2013 Expert Panel on Blood Utilization for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Susan Goobie

Institution

Boston Children’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Specialty

Blood conservation methods, coagulation disorders, anti-fibrinolytics, anemia and pharmacokinetic research

Academic Affiliations

• Harvard Medical School

Brief Resume

• Section editor for Pediatric Anesthesiaand an executive section editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia.
• Serves on the research and patient blood management committees of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, International Anesthesia Research Society, American Society of Anesthesia and Canadian Anesthesia Society.
• Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Pharmacokinetics Laboratory and the BCH Blood Management Program.
• Chair of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia Patient Blood management committee, the International Pediatric
• Craniofacial Surgery Perioperative Group and the past chair of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management research committee.
• She is an internationally recognized expert, and investigator on several large multicenter trials in the area of Pediatric Patient Blood Management.
• She is from Newfoundland, Canada and lives in Boston with her husband, 3 children and a golden retriever. She is an avid cyclist and skier.

Dr. Pere Gascón

Institution

Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology

Specialty

Oncology and Hematology

Academic Affiliations

• University of Barcelona

Brief Resume

• 1974 Graduated in Medicine, resident at Hospital Vall d’Hebron
• 1977 Downstate Medical Centre, Brooklyn New York
• 1979 National Instututes of Health (NIH), Bethesta Clinical Hematology Branch
• 1984 Washington University, Barnes Hospital, St Louis
• 1985 Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
• 1989 Head of Hematology and Oncology, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
• 1991 Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
• 1995 Physician of the Year, American College of Physicians
• 1998 Awarded ‘Best Doctors in America’
• 1999 Director of Medical Oncology, Hospital Clinic Barcelona
• 2014 Senior Consultant, Hospital Clinic Barcelona

Dr. Bernd Froessler

Institution

Lyell McEwin Hospital

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide

Brief Resume

• Born in Germany and graduated at the University of Cologne in Germany (Doctor of Medicine) in 1993
• Trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Germany and worked as a specialist in Germany, Holland and Australia
• Involved with the National Blood Authority’s Blood Measures Working Group
• Member of a National Anaemia Management Advisory Committee and The South Australian Blood Management Council
• Research interests in iron metabolism, cardio-vascular function and peri-operative/ peri-partum blood management

Prof. Paolo Ferrari

Chief Medical Officer

Institution

Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale

Specialty

Nephrology

Academic Affiliations

• University of New South Wales, Australia
• Universita della Svizzeria Italiana, Lugarno

Brief Resume

• Current Chief Medical Officer of the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale in Ticino, Switzerland
• Completed medical training at the University Hospital in Berne, Switzerland before moving to Australia in 2003
• Founding Director of the Australian Paired Kidney Exchange and Director of Kidney Transplantation at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney
• Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, served on several national and international professional Committees
• Established research programs in Nephrology including chronic kidney disease and kidney transplantation
  Published over 200 per-reviewed papers with a H-index of 46

Prof. Tatiana Fedorova

Institution

FSBI, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology n. Acad V.I. Kulakov

Specialty

Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Transfusiologist

Academic Affiliations

• Ministry of Health of the Russian federation, Moscow
• Expert of the federal Healthcare Supervision Agency on transfusiology

Brief Resume

• Deputy Director of the Institute of Anesthesiology – Resuscitation and Transfusiology
• Head of Department of Transfusiology and Extracorporeal Hemocorrection
• Graduated from the Second Moscow Medical Institute, Doctorantura in FSBI ‘NMRC for Obstet., Gyn. and Perinatol. Acad V.I. Kulakov’ Russia
• Work experience 41 years (since 1978 OBGYN certificate; since 1993 + transfusiology and hemapheresis methods certification) The study of new methods in the treatment of infertility, endometriosis, inflammatory diseases, anemia in obstetrics and gynecology. Clinical testing of new devices of PBM methods.
• Total number of publications 700+. Most significant works are: ‘Intensive care in obstetrics and gynecology’, ‘Anesthesia and resuscitation in obstetrics and gynecology’, ‘Clinical transfusiology in obstetrics, gynecology and neonatology’. Chapters in the monograph ‘Methods of hemapheresis in preparing patients for the IVF program’, ‘Clinical use of extracorporeal treatment methods’, Transfusiological hemocorrection’, Guidelines for extracorporeal blood purification in intensive care’, ‘Plasmapheresis and intravenous laser blood irradiation’, ‘Patient Blood Management in obstetric practice and placenta accreta’, Iron deficiency conditions in pregnant women and gynecological patients’.
• Regular speaker at Russian anf foreign congresses, forums, symposia and round tables.
• Lecturer for residents, graduate students and Interns
• Trainer of the simulation center for obstetrics-gynecology and transfusiology

A/Prof. Shannon Farmer

Institution

The University of Western Australia

Specialty

Academic researcher and consultant in Patient Blood Management

Academic Affiliations

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Discipline of Surgery, CTEC, Medical School, The University of Western Australia Australia
• Hon. Research Fellow in Haematology, Department of Haematology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.

Brief Resume

• Co-founder with Mr Mel Jeisman of Australia’s first comprehensive blood conservation program in 1990 at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital, Western Australia
• Coordinator, Blood Conservation Program in Medicine and Surgery, Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital
• Inaugural Executive Secretary of the Australasian Association for Blood Conservation (AABC), a Board Member, and appointed to the AABC Scientific Committee
• Board of Directors of the international Medical Society for Blood Management from 2005
• Founding Member of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, SABM Education Committee 2003-2007
• Consultant to the Western Australia Department of Health, 2007-2013
• Consultant to the Beijing Municipal Public Health Bureau and the Chinese Medical Association on the establishment of blood conservation programs in the People’s Republic of China, 2005
• Consultant to Departments of Health in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland on the development of Patient Blood Management and Patient Blood Management Programs.
• Co-authored the book Your Body, Your Choice – The layman’s complete guide to bloodless medicine and surgery. Singapore: Media Masters; 2000. Also published in Korean in 2005 and Russian in 2012)

Dr. David Faraoni

Institution

Hospital for Sick Children

Specialty

Transfusion Medicine/Hematology

Academic Affiliations

• University of Toronto

Brief Resume

• Graduated from Free University of Brussels, Belgium 2007, completed residency in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesia at the Free University of Brussels in September 2012.
• Employed as Assistant Professor, department of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital in Brussels until September 2014. Completed PhD thesis in June 2015: “Perioperative Management of Bleeding in Children undergoing Cardiac Surgery”.
• October 2014 – June 2016, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Research Associate in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.
• Joined the Hospital for Sick Children in July 2016 and completed cardiac anesthesia fellowship.
• From July 2017, staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children, and Associate Professor of Anesthesia in the department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at University of Toronto.
• Associate Scientist in the Department of Translational Medicine at the Sick Kids Research Institute. Associate Editor for Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, and Pediatric Anesthesia, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and the Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.
• Research program has focused on the understanding of coagulopathy in pediatric cardiac patients and the development of standardized transfusion algorithm.

Dr José Erce

Institution

University of Zaragoza

Specialty

Hematology and Hemotherapy

Academic Affiliations

• University of Zaragoza, Medicina, Psiquiatría Y Dermatología

Brief Resume

• Currently working Director of the Blood and Tissue Bank of Navarra
• Investigator of IDI-PAZ “Investigación en PBAM” and “Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud”
• Coordinator of the Working Group of the Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion
• Since 2011, Co-Coordinator of the Spanish Group for the study of Trombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (PTT) and the Spanish Registry of PTT, within the Spanish Group of Apheresis
• Representative of the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy in the Seville Document of Alternatives to Blood Transfusion
• 2010, Member of the “Debate Forum: Safety of Alternatives to Allogeneic Transfusion in the Surgical and / or Critical Patient” of the Update of the Seville Document. Member of the Latin American Consensus on the Management of Anemia in Surgery, Lima (Peru)
• Since 2006, Member of the Scientific Committee of the NATA (Network of Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives) (www.nataonline.com) Scientific Committee
• Co-founder and former secretary of Anemia Working Group-Spain
  Former Honorary Collaborating Professor of the University of Málaga
• 2005 to 2013 university teaching assistant at the University of Zaragoza, Autonomous University of Madrid and University of Malaga
• Since 2012, CASTYM Instructor and Collaborator of the CASTYM Course-Workshop
  Coordinator of the updating course in patient blood management. CASTYM Workshop (Advanced Control of Bleeding in Trauma and Major Surgery) of the Extraordinary Courses of the University of Zaragoza, 2016 and 2017 editions
• Teaching assistant of online courses of the Anemia Working Group Spain
  Member of the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy, the Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion and the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology.
• Co-author of more than 150 articles in indexed journals, 6 books, over 50 book chapters and more than 30 national or international papers
• Director of several Doctoral Theses and research Sufficiency works of the University of Zaragoza, and some Final Degree Projects of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Institution

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Specialty

Research – PBM strategies for tissue oxygen delivery using animal models of haemorrhagic shock and severe anaemia; appropriate clinical use of fractionated plasma products

Academic Affiliations

• School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

Brief Resume

• 1994 to present: Scientist, Senior Research Fellow; Research & Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Sydney.
• 2004 to present: Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow; Sydney Medical School and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney.

Dr. Melissa Cushing

Institution

Weill Cornell Medicine

Specialty

Transfusion Medicine

Academic Affiliations

• Weill Cornell Medicine
• New York – Presbyterian Hospital

Brief Resume

• Undergraduate Degree: Duke University
• Medical Degree: Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Clinical Pathology Residency Training: Emory University School of Medicine
• Transfusion Medicine Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 2011 – present: Director of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapy
• 2014 – present: Associate Director of the Clinical Laboratory
• 2014 – present: Chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Patient Blood Management Program
• Lectures internationally on treatment of perioperative bleeding, viscoelastic testing algorithms, and patient blood management.
• Associate Editor of Transfusion and member of the Editorial Board for Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Prof. Christian Breymann

Institution

Centre for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Seefeld

Specialty

Haematological diseases in obstetrics, iron metabolism

Academic Affiliations

University of Zurich in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Perinatal Medicine

Brief Resume

• 1996 Research fellow: Mount Sinai Hematology & Nutrition Research Laboratory, New York
• Since 2003: Research Group Leader, ZKF – Centre for Clinical Research
• Since 2004: Private medical work, Attending doctor at the Hirslanden and Bethanien Clinics, Zurich
• Since 2005: Co-Leader of the Zentrum GGS (Centre for gynaecology and obstetrics, Seefeld, Zurich) together with Prof. P. Wyss
• 2007: Professor at the University of Zurich in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Perinatal Medicine
• 2009: Academic Board and Committee member of the European Life Sciences and Medical University
• 2011: Scientific Board member of “Auxocell” Stem Cell Inc., Boston / USA
• 2011: Honorary Professor, AAU-School of Medicine, Dept. Obetstrics and Gynecology, Adis Abeba/ Aethopia
• 2013: Co-Chairman of the First European Iron Academy, Spain
• 2014: Founding member of the International Stem Cell Society, Boston / USA
• Since 2014: Director Perinatal Institute Zurich/Hirslanden
• 2015: External Reviewer of updated WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Postpartum Anaemia
• 2015: Member NATA Expert Panel in the field of anaemia therapy in pregnancy and postpartum, Paris/ France
• 2016: Vice President and Co-Founder of the Swiss Ethiopian Health Professional Association (SEHPA)
• 2017: Principal Investigator in the Perinatal Stem Cell Banking Project with the “Wyss Translational Center”, Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich

Prof. Neil Blumberg

Institution

University of Rochester Medical Center

Specialty

Clinical Haematology

Academic Affiliations

Transfusion Medicine Division/Blood Bank, Dept. of Path. and Laboratory Medicine

Brief Resume

• Director of the Transfusion Medicine Division and Blood Bank of a 880 bed university hospital starting in 1980.
• BS and MD from Yale University in New Haven, CT.
• Residency training in laboratory medicine, hematology and blood banking at Yale New Haven Hospital.
• Particular interest in transfusion immunology having participated in research into the previously unappreciated immunologic effects known as transfusion immunomodulation.
• Clinical interests in the diagnosis and treatment of immune disorders such as autoimmune hemolytic anemia, autoimmune thrombocytopenia, supportive care for stem cell and solid organ transplantation, and use of use of minimally costly and simple techniques for mitigating transfusion side effects through leukoreduction, use of autologous transfusions and removal of stored supernatant through washing.
• Our group, co-led by Dr. Joanna M. Heal, MRCP has defined the benefits of ABO identical transfusions through clinical and laboratory research, and described the unfortunate ill effects of transfusing ABO incompatible soluble antigen and antibody. The combined use of leukoreduction, washing and ABO identical transfusions has reduced the mortality of younger patients with leukemia in our setting from 50% to 20% at five years post diagnosis. We have reduced the incidence of platelet refractoriness to close to zero through use of leukoreduction and avoidance of infusing ABO incompatible antigen and antibody. These strategies also reduce side effects such as inflammation, organ failure, transfusion reactions of all types, TRALI, TACO and alloimmunization to red cell antigens. Reducing unnecessary transfusions also mitigates these unfortunate and undesirable consequences of transfusion, including thrombosis.

Dr. Elvira Bisbe

Institution

Hospital del Mar

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Brief Resume

• Consultant Senior of Anethesiology
• Group of research in perioperative IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)
• President of Anemia Working Group España (www.awge.org).
• Member of the Board of directors of Scientific committee member
• Coordinator of “AULA AWGE”. An online platform on Transfusion medicine and Anaemia treatment courses
• Member of the Haemostasia and transfusional medicine section in the Spanish society of anesthesia (SEDAR)
• Member of the panel for the elaboration of “Documento “Sevilla” de alternativas a la transfusión alogénica”
• Coordinator of MAPBM project (Maturity Assessment Model for PBM)
• Vice-president of the Medical association of Barcelona (CoMB)
• More than 50 publications and 30 book chapters in perioperative anaemia of Patient Blood Management. Participation in 10 clinical assays in this topic (competitive research grants). She has given more than 100 invited lectures at national and international scientific meetings and 60 postgraduate courses in transfusion medicine and/or  perioperative anaemia.

Dr. Ivo Beverina

Institution

Legnano General Hospital, Milan, Italy

Specialty

Haematology

Brief Resume

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery at University Statale of Milan (1989)
• Fellow at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan – Blood Transfusion Center (1990 – 1992)
• Postgraduate specialization in Hemathology at University Statale of Milan (1993)
• Medical assistant at E. Morelli Hospital, Sondalo – Blood Transfusion Center (1993 – 1994)
• Chief resident at Busto Arsizio Hospital – Blood Transfusion Center (1995 – 2001)
• Head of Blood transfusion Center at Tradate Hospital (2001 – 2010)
• 2010 to present: Head of Blood transfusion Center “Outpatient Department” – ASST West Milan, Legnano General Hospital
• Experience in patient blood management, peripheral stem cell transplantation and immunohematology.
• Member of board of ANEMO
• Member of the of Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunoemathology (SIMTI)
• Member of the Italian society of haemapheresis and cellular manipulation (SIdEM)
• Elected member of regional board (Lombardy) of Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (SIMTI)
• Scientific Director of the congress: “Patient Blood management: from theory to practice” (Legnano, 2018)
• Scientific director and speaker of courses and congresses on patient blood management, transfusion risk, intravenous iron therapy, transfusion therapy in Emergency Department, author of several publications on peer-per view journals.
• Reviewer for; Transfusion and Apheresis Science, PLOS-ONE, Internal and Emergency Medicine (IAEM), Scientific Reports – Nature, Blood Transfusion , Nutrition and Metabolic Insights

Dr. Michael Auerbach

Institution

Auerbach Hematology and Oncology Associates, Inc.

Specialty

Haematology and Oncology

Academic Affiliations

• Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC

Brief Resume

• Dr. Auerbach earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.
• Completed his fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Harlem Hospital Center in New York, New York, where he went on to do a research fellowship in thrombosis and hemostasis at Columbia. He is board-certified in internal medicine and in the subspecialties of hematology and medical oncology.
• Has authored or coauthored over 180 journal articles, books, chapters and meeting abstracts, most recently focusing on intravenous iron supplementation in pregnancy and in patients with RLS.  He is an author of the Treatment of Iron Deficiency in Adults, Anemia in Pregnancy, and Diagnosis and Causes of Iron Deficiency for UpToDate.
• Member of numerous professional organizations, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and Honorary Emeritus member of the American Society of Hematology. Currently serves on the scientific board of the Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives, advises the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management and is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Hematology, Blood Transfusion and Expert Review of Hematology.
• In 2010, along with three colleagues, he participated in the first educational session ever delivered on the use of intravenous iron, at the American Society of Hematology’s annual meeting and in 2016 presented another on complete replacement dosing in an initial, brief, single visit.
• In December, 2017 he was the principal author of the first prospective study of intravenous iron in pregnancy performed in the United States which was published in the American Journal of Medicine.

Prof. Oluş Api

Institution

Vehbi Koc Foundation, American Hospital Department of Women’s Health, Perinatology Unit

Specialty

Obstetrics, Gynecology/Perinatology

Academic Affiliations

•  Perinatal Medicine Foundation

Brief Resume

• Graduated in 1997 at Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul.
• 1997-2002 at Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Teaching Hospital.
• 2002, Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Teaching Hospital as the Chief Assistant at the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics and Department of Perinatology.
• 2010, Associate Professor at Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Teaching Hospital. Worked at the Royal Brompton Fetal Cardiology Clinic for 6 months as a fellow and increased her experience at fetal cardiology.
• Lecturer and the Head of Perinatology Department at Yeditepe University Hospital until 2017.
• Between 2017 and mid 2019, worked as a lecturer and the head of Perinatology Department at Medipol University Hospital.
• 2019, Vehbi Koc Foundation American Hospital as a perinatologist.
• Has over 100 scientific publications and she is actively taking part in many international & national medical journals’ advisory boards. Main interest is fetal cardiology, prenatal diagnosis and maternal anemia.
• Has held many positions at various societies including past president of Turkish Perinatology Society between 2015-2017, currently a board member.
• President of Turkish Obstetric & Gynecological Ultrasound Society.
• Member of Perinatal Medicine Foundation and World Association of Perinatal Medicine (WAPM).