AUTHORS
ARYEH SHANDER
Aryeh is Emeritus Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Pain Management and Hyperbaric Medicine at Englewood Hospital & Medical Center in Englewood, NJ.
He is also Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Medicine and Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as well as Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in NJ. He is the Executive Medical Director of The Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Englewood Hospital, and Past -President of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management. He serves as the director for education for TeamHealth. Dr. Shander lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of topics related to anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and patient blood management and his publications have appeared in several prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals.
IRWIN GROSS
Irwin is former Chief of Pathology at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor Maine, U.S.A. Dr. Gross was also Director of Transfusion Services and the Coagulation Laboratory at Eastern Maine Medical from 1987 through 2015.
Irwin’s interest in patient blood management began at the bedside of bleeding patients as he consulted with surgeons and intensive care specialists in his hospital. New ideas aren’t of much value unless you put them to use, so he founded the Eastern Maine Medical Center PBM Program in 2006 and served as Medical Director until 2015. As a member of the Board of the Society for Advancement of Patient Blood Management, he chaired the SABM Standards Committee. Dr. Gross is a Scientific Associate of the International Foundation for Patient Blood Management, and currently serves as Co-Chair of a World Health Organization (WHO) committee charged with developing international Guidelines for the implementation of PBM. In 2019, he received the Dr. Kathleen J Sazama Award (USA) “For Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Patient Rights and Patient Blood Management.”
SHANNON FARMER
Shannon is an academic researcher and a consultant and pioneer in Patient Blood Management, having been in the field for over 30 years.
He is a Doctor of Health Science and has appointments as Adjunct Associate Professor, Discipline of Surgery, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow in Haematology, Department of Haematology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He is a medical journal peer-reviewer, and serves on several PBM committees and guidelines expert working groups. In 2021 he was invited to serve on the World Health Organization External Working Group to develop a WHO Policy Brief and Guidelines for the implementation of PBM. He has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers, is a regularly invited lecturer, and has consulted to national and international health authorities. In 2014 he received the Dr Kathleen J Sazama Award (USA) “For Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Patient Rights and Patient Blood Management.”
48 CONTRIBUTORS
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Professor Michael Auerbach MD FACP Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA
Dr Ivo Beverina MD Legnano General Hospital, Italy
Dr Elvira Bisbe MD PhD Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Spain
Professor Neil Blumberg MD University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Professor Matteo Bolcato MD University of Padua, Italy
Dr Roger Browning MBChB (Otago) MCR (UWA) FANZCA King Edward Memorial Hospital, Australia
Professor Ángel Augusto Pérez Calatayud University of Mexico and General Hospital of Mexico Dr Eduardo Liceaga, Mexico
Alana Delaforce BN GCertPeriopN MN PhD(Cand) MACORN MANZSBT AFHEA Mater Health, Australia
Dr Wayne B Dyer PhD Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Australia
Professor Wendy N Erber MBBS (Syd) MD (Syd) DPhil (Oxf) PhD (Camb) FRCPA FRCPath FAHMS The University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Jochen Erhard MD Dr Med Klinikum-Niederrhein, Germany
Dr Manuel Estioko MD Transfusion Free Medicine and Surgery Center, Good Samaritan Hospital, USA
Professor David Faraoni MD Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Professor Patricia Ford MD Pennsylvania Hospital, USA
Dr Arnold Friedman MD Maimonides Medical Center, USA
Professor Bernd Froessler MD PhD FANZCA Lyell McEwin Hospital and University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr Ian Gilfillan MBChB FRCS(Ed) & C/ Th & DMI FRACS Fiona Stanley Hospital, Australia
Professor Hans Gombotz MD General Hospital Linz, Austria
Associate Professor Susan Goobie MD FRCPC Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor Jeffrey M Hamdorf AM MBBS PhD FRACS The University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Nabil E Hassan MD Children’s Hospital and University of Illinois, USA
Associate Professor Joanna M Heal MBBS MRCP University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Professor Axel Hofmann Dr rer medic ME The University of Western Australia and Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland.
Professor James P Isbister MBBS BSc(med) FRACP FRCPA The University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Nicolas Jabbour MD University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, USA
Dr Pradeep Jayasuriya MBBS, M Hlth Serv Man WA Iron Centre, Australia
Professor Hongwen Ji MD PhD Fuwai Hospital and Peking Union Medical College, China
Dr Kasandji Freddy Kabambi MD FCA (SA) Mmed(anesth) Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
Professor Young-Woo Kim MD PhD FRCS National Cancer Center, Korea
Professor Michael F Leahy MBChB FRACP FRCP FRCPath Royal Perth Hospital and The University of Western Australia, Australia
Mr Matthias Lucas MD Helios Klinikum, Germany
Dr Hamish Mace MBChB (Otago) FANZCA DRANZCOG Fiona Stanley Hospital and The University of Western Australia, Australia
Associate Professor Rudolf Mair MD Kepler University Hospital, Austria
Professor Nolan McDonnell BHB MBChB FANZCA MClinRes Grad Dip Clinical King Edward Memorial Hospital and The University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr Julie McMorrow PharmD FPS Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Professor Lena Napolitano MD FACS FCCP MCCM University of Michigan Health System and University Hospital, USA
Sherri Ozawa RN Englewood Health, USA
Dr Petra Seeber MD Helios Klinikum, Germany
Professor Donat R Spahn MD FRCA University and Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Bruce Spiess MD FAHA University of Florida College of Medicine, USA
Dr Jackie Thomson MD South African National Blood Service, South Africa
Dr Kevin Trentino MPH PhD East Metropolitan Health Service and The University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Fiona M Wood FRACS AM Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth Children’s Hospital and The University of Western Australia, Australia
Associate Professor Michael Wren MBBS FRACS The University of Notre Dame and Curtin University, Australia
Professor Christoph A Zenger LL.M. (Harvard) University of Bern, Switzerland
Blood Works is 100% funded by Human Touch Media Foundation. All authors donated their work to “Blood Works: An Owners Guide”. All proceeds will be used to: (1) cover the cost of developing the project; (2) scale the project by means of marketing and translation; (3) make the book accessible to patients and academics in developing countries with limited resources. No compensation has been paid to the lead authors or contributors. All support staff have donated their time and efforts to the Blood Works project in support of Patient Blood Management education.
