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2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM/BE THE MATCH
2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION
Our mission: saving lives through cellular therapy
Our mission: saving lives through cellular therapy.
Chair
Members
Director, BMT
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, PA
University of California Los Angles
Los Angeles, CA
Immediate Past Chair
Branch Chief,
Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Health Resources & Services Administration
Rockville, MD
David L. Porter, MD
Lynn Abrahamsen
St. Paul, MN
Secretary
Melinda Caltabiano
Director of Apheresis Operations
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, LLC
Mount Vernon, NY
Vice Chair
Kimberly Kasow Wichlan, DO
Pediatric Medical Director
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
FY 2019 Board of Directors
Council Chair
Gary A. Goldstein
Business Manager, Stanford BMT Program
Stanford, CA
Judith Gasson, PhD
Shelley Grant, Ex Officio
Frank Holloman, Ex Officio
Deputy Director/Operations Director/
Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
Rockville, MD
Robert J. Hartzman, MD,
Captain, MC, U.S. Navy, (Ret.) Ex Officio
Director, C.W. Bill Young/
DOD Marrow Donor Program
Rockville, MD
Uri Herzberg, PhD
Bridgewater, NJ
Pankaj (P.J.) Kamani
Office Systems of CT, Inc.
ABC - Language Services
Rocky Hill, CT
Krishna Komanduri, MD
Kalish Family Chair in Stem Cell Transplantation
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and
Immunology
Director, Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Miami, FL
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Michael E. Lang
Robert J. Soiffer, MD
Minneapolis, MN
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Rebecca A. Lewis, Esquire, Emeritus
Pence & MacMillan, LLC
Steamboat Springs, CO
Robert D. (Denny) Lorentz, PhD, Emeritus
Laurie Strongin
Hope for Henry Foundation
Washington, DC
North Oaks, MN
Abigail (Abby) West
Miguel-Angel Perales, MD
Montclair, NJ
Deputy Chief, Adult BMT Service
Director, Adult Stem Cell Transplantation
Fellowship Associate Member
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Lori A. White
Brian J. Reithel, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, BMT Program
University of Florida – College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
Oxford, MS
Harpreet Sandhu
Chief Executive Officer
Stanford Blood Center
San Francisco, CA
David M. Schubert
Chief Operating Partner
Accelerator Life Science Partners
New York, NY
Edward L. Snyder, MD, Emeritus
Professor, Laboratory Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
Vice President of Government
McKesson Health Systems
Irving, TX
John R. Wingard, MD, Emeritus
C. Randal Mills, PhD
National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match
Minneapolis, MN
Guest of Board, Council Vice-Chair
Hope Guidry-Groves
Director, Cellular, Apheresis and Transfusion
Services
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
Houston, TX
2019 AMY SCHOLARS
AMY STRELZER MANASEVIT RESEARCH
PROGRAM
Chair
Members
David W. Pearce
Andrew Block
Minneapolis, MN
CEO, Purchasing Power
Atlanta, GA
Chief Human Resources Officer
ABM
New York, NY
William G. (Bill) Pomeroy
Anne McGeorge
Moneta, VA
Diana J. Carter
Antonio Prioletti
Secretary
Dennis L. Confer, MD, Ex Officio
Joseph M. (Trey) Loughran
Vice Chair
Roger P. Paschke
Vice President,
Chief Investment Officer
Hearst Corporation
New York, NY
Treasurer
Robert W. Sit, CFA
Vice President-Research and
Investment Management
Sit Investment Associates, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
Wayzata, MN
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation
Syracuse, NY
Alberona Iron Works
Orange, NJ
Chief Medical Officer
National Marrow Donor Program/
Be The Match
Minneapolis, MN
Richard P. Rieger
Scot A. Housh
Michael L. Rose, CFRE
Head of Corporate Risk & BrokingU.S. Midwest Region
Willis Towers Watson
Minneapolis, MN
Bruce S. Manasevit
Vice President,
Wealth Management Advisor
The Manasevit Group
Merrill Lynch Wealth and Investment
Management
Fairfield, CT
C. Randal Mills, PhD
National Marrow Donor Program/
Be The Match
Minneapolis, MN
Nicole Moore
Sanford, FL
Managing Director
Huron Consulting Group
Chicago, IL
Principal
McMillan Rose, LLC
Charlotte, NC
Michael L. Stewart
Regional Vice President
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Greenwood Village, CO
Thomas A. Teach
Chief Executive Officer
Century Foam/Exemplary Foam/
Great Western Eagle Packaging
Elkhart, IN
Be The Match Foundation has invested nearly
$9 million to support the career development of
41 emerging leaders in the field of transplant research
focused on the treatment and prevention of postcellular-therapy complications. The Amy Scholars
have leveraged this funding to win more than $110
million in additional funding to help more patients
live longer, healthier lives. Today, the Amy Program
is one of the largest and most coveted fellowships in
the field of transplantation.
Tessa M. Andermann, MD, MPH
Now at University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (formerly at Stanford University)
Modulation of CAR T-cell therapy efficacy
by the intestinal microbiome in patients with
leukemia and lymphoma (clinical)
Pavan Bachireddy, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Coevolution of leukemia and immune cells
during GvL response and resistance
(pre-clinical)
Noha Sharafeldin, MBBCh, MSc, PhD
University of Alabama
Impact of cognitive training on cognition after
allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation—
a randomized wait-listed clinical trial (clinical)
Nathan Singh, MD
Now at Washington University in St. Louis
(formerly at University of Pennsylvania)
Molecular interactions between T cells and tumor
cells that limit CAR T-cell cytotoxicity
and persistence (pre-clinical)
The generosity of our mission supporters makes
these awards possible. Together, we are advancing
blood stem cell transplant science to help thousands
of patients live longer, healthier lives.
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