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; and
- members of the general public.
Members
Voting Members
Amanda Salazar
Haledon, NJ 07508
Term End Date: 1/1/2023
Non-Voting Members (Ex Officio Members)
Frank Holloman
Division Director
Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, MD 20857
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
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, MD 20892
Sridhar Basavaraju, M.D.
Director-Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Atlanta, GA 30333
Safa Karandish
Consumer Safety Officer
Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
White Oak, MD 20993
Executive Secretary
Shelley Grant
Senior Advisor
Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
General Counsel Staff
Rina Hakimian, JD, MPH
Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mark McGinnis, JD
Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services