Membership structure
The Council membership includes:
- Representatives of marrow donor centers and marrow transplant centers
- Representatives of cord blood banks and participating birthing hospitals
- Recipients of a bone marrow transplant
- Recipients of a cord blood transplant
- Persons who require such transplants
- Family members of such a recipient or family members of a patient who has requested the assistance of the Program in searching for an unrelated donor of bone marrow or cord blood
- Persons with expertise in bone marrow and cord blood transplantation
- Persons with expertise in typing, matching, and transplant outcome data analysis
- Persons with expertise in the social sciences
- Basic scientists with expertise in the biology of adult stem cells
- Ethicists, hematology and transfusion medicine researchers with expertise in adult blood stem cells
- Persons with expertise in cord blood processing
- Members of the general public
Members
Voting members
Navneet S. Majhail, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.S. – Chair, ACBSCT
Deputy Physician-in Chief of Blood Cancers
Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Network
Nashville, TN 37203
Term End Date: 11/6/2024
Juliet Barker, M.B.B.S.
Director, Cord Blood Transplantation Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY 10065
Term End Date: 11/6/2024
Ann Richardson Berkey
Chief Executive Officer
The Berkey Group
San Francisco, CA
Term End Date: 12/4/2024
Marcie Finney, M.B.A.
Executive Director
Cleveland Cord Blood Center
Westlake, OH 44145
Term End Date: 11/6/2024
Eapen K. Jacob, M.D.
Medical Director, Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Term End Date: 12/4/2024
John Levine, M.D., M.S.
Director of Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Research
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York 10029
Term End Date: 11/6/2024
Richard Maziarz, M.D.
Medical Director
Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant & Cell Therapy Program
Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR 97239
Term End Date: 12/4/2024
Filippo Milano, M.D., Ph.D.
Director Cord Blood Transplantation Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA 98109
Term End Date: 11/6/2024
Ex-officio (non-voting members)
Nancy L. 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
Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, MD 20892
Dr. Max Grogl
Head DoD Bone Marrow Program
Naval Medical Research Center
United States Navy
Department of Defense
Rockville, MD 20852
Frank Holloman
Division Director
Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, MD 20857
Hanh M. Khuu, M.D.
Medical Officer
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
White Oak, MD 20993
Executive Secretary
Shelley Tims Grant
Policy Advisor
Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
General Counsel staff
Mark McGinnis, J.D.
Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel
Department of Health and Human Services
Alexandra Slessarey, J.D.
Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel
Department of Health and Human Services