Program Faculty
Program Chairs
Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Mary J. Laughlin, M.D., Cleveland Cord Blood Center
John McMannis, Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Lawrence D. Petz, M.D., StemCyte International Cord Blood Center
CME Activity Director
Mary Eapen, M.D., M.S., Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Presenters
Graça Almeida-Porada, M.D., Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Juliet N. Barker, M.B.B.S., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Catherine Bollard, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Michael Boo, J.D., National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Claudio G. Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Mitchell S. Cairo, M.D., New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Linzhao Cheng, Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Robert Chow, M.D., A.M., StemCyte International Cord Blood Center, Covina, CA
Dennis Confer, M.D., National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
Colleen Delaney, M.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Manuel N. Fernández, M.D., Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jonathan A. Gutman, M.D., University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Gero Hütter, M.D., University Heidelberg,
Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Mannheim, Germany
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Tang-Her Jaing, M.D., Chang Gung Children’s Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Ellen Lazarus, M.D., The Division of Human Tissues in the Office of Cells, Tissues and Gene Therapies, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Rockville, MD
Shinn-Zong Lin, M.D., Ph.D., China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Navneet Majhail, M.D., M.S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
John McMannis, Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Jeffrey S. Miller, M.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
John P. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
William V. MIller, M.D., St. Louis Cord Blood Bank, St. Louis, MO
Derek A. Persons, M.D., Ph.D. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Lawrence D. Petz, M.D., StemCyte International Cord Blood Center, Covina, CA
Doris Ponce, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Mariusz Ratajczak, M.D., Ph.D., D. Sci., James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Donna Regan, St. Louis Cord Blood Bank, St. Louis, MO
Vanderson Rocha, M.D., Ph.D., Hôpital St. Louis, Paris, France
Paul Sanberg, Ph.D. DSc., University of South Florida, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Tampa, FL
Andromachi Scaradavou, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / New York Blood Center, New York, NY
Kevin Shoulars, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Cladd Stevens, M.D., New York Blood Center (retired), New York, NY
Paul Szabolcs, M.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Tsuneo A. Takahashi, D.Sc., New York Blood Center, New York, NY
Daniel Weisdorf, M.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Peter Wernet, M.D., NETCORD, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D., Rutgers University Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Piscataway, NJ