About and Activities

Christine Lomas-Francis

Former Chair of the Rare Donors Working Party 2014-2022, Formal Technical Director, FIBMS, New York Blood Centre, Lab Immunohaematology & Genomics, New York, USA

ISBT Award Winner 2023

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Sandra Taddei Nance

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA, Member of the ISBT Immunohaematology WP, Former chair of ISBT Rare Donors WP, Former Senior Director, National Laboratories and Editor Immunohematology Journal, American Red Cross

Sandra Nance is Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine & Therapeutic Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a guest lecturer at the post-graduate program at the Diego Portales University in Chile. She co-chairs the AABB Awards Committee, is a member of the Standing Committee of the ISBT Academy and Working Party on Immunohematology and also is a mentor in the ISBT Mentoring Program and an advisor to the ISBT Working Party on Rare Donors. She provided leadership to the American Rare Donor Program, American Red Cross National Laboratories including Blood Group Serology, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Molecular Testing, Neutrophil and Specialized Testing. She engineered the nationalized American Red Cross SBB Program.  Her master’s degree in Pathology is from the University of Maryland and her SBB from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. She is named to Halls of Fame by the ASCP and AABB. Ms. Nance is a former Editor in Chief of the Immunohematology Journal of Blood Group Serology and Molecular Genetics. She developed polyethylene glycol (PEG) method for serologic testing and the monocyte monolayer assay (MMA) used by the National Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Serology (NRLBGS) to predict in vivo survival of transfused incompatible red cells. She initiated the International MMA Training classes at the NRLBGS.

Active in education, she has been faculty for American Red Cross, Diego Portales University, National Institutes of Health, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Thomas Jefferson Medical School, University of Maryland, and University of Pennsylvania, She has authored or co-authored over 50 papers, over 200 abstracts, edited 9 books and given over 250 invited lectures for local, national and international societies.

Graeme Woodfield

Former Associate Professor, University of Auckland · Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology and Former Medical Director, Auckland Regional Blood Services, New Zealand

Delores Mallory

Former Director, National Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Serology and Editor Immunohematology Journal, American Red Cross, Rockville, MD