ofessor of Pathology and Internal Medicine at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His
career in HLA started as a research scientist and
extended to directing clinical HLA laboratories. He
currently directs a full-spectrum blood banking/
transfusion service (blood donor center, blood bank
lab, apheresis, stem cell processing lab, and outpatient
transfusion services) and a clinical HLA lab. He
teaches and trains clinical pathology residents and
hematology/oncology fellows during their transfusion medicine rotations.
Mary E Clay MS
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical Medical School
Box MMC 198, Room D242 Mayo Building
420 Delaware Street S. E.
Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
Email: clayx002@umn.edu
Mary Clay is the Director of the Transfusion Medicine
Research and Development Program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. She has over 32 years of experience in
transfusion medicine with 27 years focusing on
conducting, managing and administering transfusion
medicine R & D projects directed toward the
production, clinical use and evaluation of standard
and investigational hematopoietic stem cell and
somatic cell products. She has special expertise in
conducting clinical trials and the administrative
management of cord blood banks.
John Crosson MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical Medical School
Box MMC 609
420 Delaware Street S. E.
Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
Email: cross008@umn.edu
And
Blood Bank
Department of Pathology
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Email: John.Crosson@co.hennepin.mn
Dr Crosson is a Professor, Laboratory Medicine and
Pathology, and the director of the residency training
program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine
and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical
School. He directs the blood bank at the Hennepin
County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota and
is a pathologist with special expertise in kidney
pathology.
David Dennison MD
Head, Department of Hematology
Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
PO Box 35, Al Khod
Muscat, Oman
Email: davjden@yahoo.com
Dr Dennison was graduated fron the Christian
Medical College, Vellore, India, where he also trained
in Internal Medicine. He completed hematology and
oncology fellowship training at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska and was
professor of medicine in the hematology department
at the Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore
until 1998. He is currently head of the department of
hematology and director of the bone marrow
transplant program at the Sultan Qaboos University
Hospital in Oman. His program has special interests
in hereditary disorders prevalent in Oman such as
beta thalassemia, immune system disorders and other
rare hematologic disorders.
Neelam Dhingra MD
Ag Coordinator
Blood Transfusion Safety
Essential Health Technologies
World Health Organization-Headquarters
Avenue Appoa 20
CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
Email: dhingran@who.int
Ted Eastlund MD
Co-director, Division of Transfusion Medicine
Department o