Science & Innovation Forum - Pros & Cons of Big & Small Data in RBC Biology Followed by: Perspectives on A New Innovation in RBC Processing and Storage

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• Intended Audience: CEOs, COOs, Directors, Donor Recruitment Staff, Facilities that perform molecular testing, Hospital Blood Banks, Hospitals, Immunohematology Reference Labs (IRL’s), Laboratory Staff, Medical Directors, Nurses, Perfusionists, Physicians, Research Scientists, Residents/Fellows, Scientists, Technologists, Transfusion Safety Officers

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  Faculty

  Moderator: Paul Ness, MD
  Prior director of the Division of Transfusion Medicine, Program
  Director of the Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins

  Dr. Ness has served as director of the Division of Transfusion Medicine and program director of the Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins for 38 years. He also served as editor of Transfusion, a globally recognized journal of medicine, for 15 years, and is former president of the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies. Dr. Ness received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed a fellowship in Hematology-oncology at the University of California San Francisco.

  
  

  Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD
  Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Director of the Metabolomics Core, Director of Mass Spectrometry - Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  Dr. Angelo D’Alessandro is a Professor, Director of the Metabolomics Core, and Director of Mass Spectrometry at the Colorado Cancer Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. D’Alessandro received his PhD at the Tuscia University (Italy) under the aegis of the Italian National Blood Center. His postdoctoral career focused on Mass Spectrometry-based Omics technologies at Bruker Daltonics (Bremen, Germany), Cancer Metabolism at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Center (Glasgow, Scotland) and Metabolomics in Transfusion Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver (Aurora, USA). He also serves as Linda Crnic Investigator for the Linda Crnic Institute of Down Syndrome. Dr. D’Alessandro is a founder and CSO of Omix Technologies Inc. and Altis Biosciences LLC. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Blood Transfusion, Frontiers in Physiology, and Molecular Cell Proteomics. In 2019 he edited a thematic book on High-Throughput metabolomics for the Springer Nature series in Methods in Molecular Biology. Dr. D’Alessandro has been awarded the 2015 Scott Murphy lectureship by the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) group, the Early Career grant by the National Blood Foundation (2016) and the 2017 Webb-Waring Early Career grant by the Boettcher Foundation. He is a National Blood Foundation Scholar (2018).

  
  

  Steven Spitalnik, MD
  Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
  Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

  Dr. Steven Spitalnik, MD is the Co-Director of the Laboratory of Transfusion Biology, which pursues NIH-funded research aimed at improving transfusion practice. Dr. Spitalnik is a Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). As the Medical Director of the Clinical laboratories on the CUMC campus of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, he coordinates the clinical service, educational, and scholarly activities of the Division. He is a long-standing member of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians & Scientists, serving as its President in 2002-03 and, in 2005, receiving its Gerald T. Evans Award for outstanding leadership and service to the Academy. In addition to being board certified in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Dr. Spitalnik is a member of the Editorial Boards of Transfusion, Transfusion Medicine Reviews, and Current Opinion in Hematology, and is the lead author of Clinical Pathology Board Review.

  
  

  Susanne Marschner, PhD
  Vice President, Co-Director, Vitalant Research Institute Denver Senior Investigator
  Vitalant, Denver, CO

  Dr. Susanne Marschner is the Co-Director and Senior Investigator at the Vitalant Research Institute at its campus extension in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Marschner received her BS and MS from the University of Würzburg, and her PhD from the University of Colorado in collaboration with the University of Würzburg.

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