New president of AABB begins term
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Beth H. Shaz, MD, has started her 2019-2020 term as president of AABB.
Shaz is executive vice president and chief medical and scientific officer at New York Blood Center. She oversees scientific and medical activities throughout the center’s enterprises, which include Lindsey F. Kimball Research Institute, a hemophilia service, transfusion services, cellular therapy, perioperative autologous transfusion and clinical apheresis.
Shaz has been an AABB member since 2002.
“I am truly thankful to the membership for giving me an opportunity to serve as AABB board president and help ensure the future success of the association,” Shaz said in a press release. “AABB provides a platform to bring all these wonderful individuals from different subspecialties, in different stages of their careers, with different expertise, and from all over the world together to improve the fields of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.”
AABB — a nonprofit organization formerly known as American Association of Blood Banks — includes physicians, nurses, scientists, researchers, medical technologists, administrators and other health care providers.
Other officers include president-elect David Green, MSA; vice president Dana Devine, PhD; and secretary Steven Sloan, MD, PhD. The group also elected Clifford Numark, JD, Jerry Holmberg, PhD, MT(ASCP)SBB, and Jose Cancelas, MD, PhD, as at-large directors. Shaz also appointed Colleen Delaney, MD, to the board.