Governance & Policies

The 2025 AABB Annual Business Meeting is presented as a prerecorded video. AABB invites members to view the video below and welcome our Association's new president: Jose Cancelas, MD, PhD, CABP.

AABB is governed by its Board of Directors composed of the president, president-elect, past president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, as well as elected at-large directors, appointed directors, and directors who serve ex-officio.

Consistent with its commitment to optimal standards of care for patients and donors, the Association closely adheres to operating principles and practices that promote ethics and transparency.

2025-2026 AABB Board of Directors

Jose Cancelas, MD, PhD, CABP

President

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH

Past President

Children’s National Hospital

Richard Schäfer, MD, FRSB

President-Elect

University of Freiburg

Delisa English, MBA

Vice President

The Blood Connection

Sally A. Campbell-Lee, MD, CABP

Secretary

University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics

John Hagins

Treasurer and At-Large Director Position 2

The Community Blood Center

Pampee Young, MD, PhD

At-Large Director Position 1

American Red Cross

Dawn Ward, MD, CABP

At-Large Director Position 3

UCLA Health, David Geffen School of Medicine

Don Siegel, PhD, MD

At-Large Director Position 4

University of Pennsylvania

Raymond Goodrich, PhD

At-Large Director Position 5

Colorado State University

Melissa Cushing, MD

At-Large Director Position 6

Weill Cornell Medicine

Caroline Wesonga Wangamati, MSc, MA, BCom

At-Large Director Position 7

Coalition of Blood for Africa

Harpreet Sandhu, CLS (AAB), MBA, MS

At-Large Director Position 8

Stanford Blood Center

Rob Van Tuyle

At-Large Director Position 9

Vitalant

Suzanne Thibodeaux, MD, PhD, CABP(H)

At-Large Director Position 10

Washington University School of Medicine

Wen Lu, MD

Director (Transfusion Medicine Section Representative)

Mayo Clinic

Ronit Reich-Slotky, PhD, MSc, CABP

Director (Cellular Therapies Section Representative)

Hackensack University Medical Center

José Mauro Kutner

Appointed Director

Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Albert Einstein

Nancy Dunbar, MD

Appointed Director

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Debra BenAvram, FASAE, CAE

Ex-Officio Director

AABB