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
We will announce new members in the future.
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
Senior Policy Advisor
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