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The Committee includes 14 public members, selected from state and local organizations, patient advocacy groups, provider organizations, academic researchers, ethicists, physicians, surgeons, scientists, risk communication experts, consumer advocates, and from among communities of persons who are frequent recipients of blood or blood products or who have received tissues or organs. Public members are Special Government Employees and are subject to conflict of interest laws and regulations.
After finishing her Transfusion Medicine fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Cohn joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota where she is Medical Director of the Blood Bank, Associate Medical Director of the HLA lab and Associate Head of Labs. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of the AABB (formerly American Association of Blood Banks).
Dr. Cohn conducts research in the field of transfusion medicine and her major interests include platelet support for stem cell transplant patients, hemovigilance and appropriate use of blood components. She is Editor-in-Chief of current AABB Technical Manual (20th edition), and Associate Editor of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Science Series. Dr. Cohn has served on the AABB Clinical Transfusion Medicine committee, Transfusion Standards committee and the Transfusion Transmitted Disease committee. She has a doctorate degree in immunology and infectious diseases from Johns Hopkins University and medical degree from Louisiana State University.
Ms. Wilson is the Chief Operating Officer of Community Blood Center / Community Tissue Services based in Dayton, Ohio. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing from Everett Community College, her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Phoenix, and her Masters of Science in Nursing and Health Administration from the University of Phoenix.
Ms. Wilson has served as a member of various committees with the American Association of Tissue Banks. She currently serves on the AATB Accreditation committee. She serves on many tissue and organ procurement boards. She is the current Chair of the Joint Restoration Foundation Board. She has served as the President of the American Association of Tissue Banks. In her current position as COO she oversees all the blood and tissue operations.
As the Executive Director of the Infectious Disease Research Center, Dr. Goodrich has responsibility for oversight of the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Academic Resource Center (BioMARC), the Regional Biocontainment Labs (RBL) and the Research Innovation Center (RIC). He holds a faculty appointment as a tenured Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University and an adjunct position as a Professor of Chemistry at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Goodrich has worked in medical research for over 30 years in the fields of transfusion, transplantation medicine, and pathogen reduction technologies. He holds over 50 patents and has co-authored 200 peer-reviewed publications. His most recent work funded by the NIH, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and Department of Defense and DOD is focused on the development of new methods for vaccine production. He is a 2018 honorary recipient of the Order of Military Medical Merit (O2M3) for his work on programs of importance to the US Army Medical Command. Dr. Goodrich has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from The Ohio State University and doctorate degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Gordon is Professor in the Department of Surgery and Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She trained as a medical anthropologist and clinical ethicist, using interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches to advance patient-centered care. Dr. Gordon has been conducting research in bioethics and health services research for nearly 25 years, with over 170 peer-reviewed publications. She specializes in ethical and empirical research on organ donation and transplantation and conducts multi-site clinical trials to evaluate interventions designed to facilitate informed consent for transplantation and to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in access to kidney transplantation.
Dr. Gordon serves as the Chair of the American Society of Transplantation's Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice, member of the NHLBI DSMB, and as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation. She is the former Chair of the OPTN/UNOS Ethics Committee. Dr. Gordon has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a doctorate degree in medical anthropology from Case Western Reserve University, and a master's of public health degree focusing on community health from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Gordon completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical medical ethics at The University of Chicago.
Dr. Gorlin is the Vice President of Medical and Quality Affairs for Memorial Blood Center and Nebraska Community Blood Bank divisions of Innovative Blood Resources. He is also an associate clinical professor of laboratory medicine at University of Minnesota and the co-director of Transfusion Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center and Children's Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN.
Dr. Gorlin has authored over 60 journal articles and a dozen chapters in various blood banking texts has provided expert consultation to AABB, CDC, and NIH for blood collection capacity building projects in Africa and Central Asia. He is the 2019 recipient of the John Elliott Memorial Award from the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). Dr. Gorlin has served on the board of AABB and the National Blood Foundation, acted as the AABB liaison to several professional medical associations for obstetric hemorrhage, and served as the America's Blood Centers liaison to AABB Transfusion Transmitted Diseases committee. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, master's degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota, and a medical degree from Yale University and trained in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology at Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Ness is Senior Director of the Transfusion Medicine Division at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Professor of Pathology, Medicine, and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland; he served as Director from 1979-2018. He has extensive experience in transfusion related research with an emphasis upon transfusion related complications. Dr. Ness has served as the Principal Investigator for the Johns Hopkins site of the Transfusion Medicine Hemostasis Clinical Trial Network, funded by NHLBI. He was also the co-PI for a project funded by the NHLBI REDS III program to study donor virus epidemiology and blood utilization issues in China. Dr. Ness has served as a consultant to the coordinating centers of REDS II, REDS III, and REDS IV. From 1972-1974, Dr. Ness was a staff associate in the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the NIH in Bethesda.
As a long-time member of the AABB Board of Directors, he became President in 1999. Dr. Ness has written over 250 articles for medical journals, three texts, and served as editor of Transfusion from 2003-2018. He received an undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a medical degree from the SUNY Buffalo. His postgraduate work includes residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, fellowship training in hematology-oncology at the University of California San Francisco, and transfusion medicine fellowship at Irwin Memorial Blood Bank in San Francisco.
The Committee includes nine voting representative members who are designated to serve by the blood, tissue and organ professional organizations and/or business sectors. Representative members are selected from the AABB, American Association of Tissue Banks, the Eye Bank Association of America, the Association of Organ Procurement Organization, and either the American National Red Cross or America's Blood Centers on a rotating basis. The Committee composition can include four additional representative members. These members are not regular government employees (federal employees) or special government employees.
Dr. Lynne Uhl is the Vice Chair, Division of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Her areas of interest include evidence-based clinical transfusion practice, hematopoietic stem cell transplant and immune-based cellular therapies, and therapeutic apheresis. She is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and has subspecialty certification in blood banking and transfusion medicine.
As Vice Chair of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Dr. Uhl is responsible for physician oversight of clinical laboratory operations (blood bank, hematology, clinical chemistry, and microbiology), ensuring operational compliance with regulatory organizations, overseeing quality assurance programs and quality initiatives, participating in clinical resource activities, and strategic planning.
In addition to her administrative duties, Dr. Uhl devotes a considerable portion of her time to Harvard Medical School teaching activities and participates in national and international organizations within her area of expertise. She previously served on the AABB Board of Directors and as President of AABB in 2015. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Bucknell University, master's degree in nutrition science from Pennsylvania State University, and medical degree from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Uhl completed residency training in pathology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Lou Barnes is a thirty-four (34) year veteran of the tissue banking industry. Mr. Barnes worked with leading tissue banks from technician to executive management positions with for-profit and not-for-profit companies. Mr. Barnes holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and graduate degree from the University of Alabama as well as designation of Certified Tissue Bank Specialist. Lou was elected to the American Association of Tissue Banks Board of Governors Chair for a six-year term which ended October 2021.
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