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Steering Committee

The Steering Committee (SC) consists of members with expertise in Transfusion Medicine with broad representation from across Canada. SC members will include partners from the blood providers (Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec), academic and community hospitals, methodologists/biostatisticians, basic scientists, physicians from high blood loss specialties, as well as patients and blood donor partners. The role of the SC is to guide the strategic direction of the network, along with the co-directors with advice from the Scientific Advisory Committee. In particular, the SC will:

1) Define the objectives of the network

2) Create a framework for tracking progress in meeting the objectives and re-calibrating if required

3) Create and implement the organizational structure for the network

4) Evaluate the network’s achievements regarding research output, recruitment and funding on a quarterly basis

5) Help identify funding opportunities and projects/investigators for the submission

6) Identify priority themes for research

7) Review and approve membership of the CTTG SC and WGs in conjunction with the directors

8) Determine a process for selection of dedicated research themes

 

For more information about the roles, responsibilities, and structure of our Steering Committee, please refer to our Terms of Reference here.

Information Box Group

Dr. Jason Acker

Transfusion Medicine, Basic Science
University of Alberta
Canadian Blood Services

Dr. Richard Cook

Biostatistics, Methodology
University of Waterloo

Dr. Keyvan Karkouti

Anesthesia, Clinical Trials, Hemostatic Resuscitation
University of Toronto

Ken Kennedy

Donor Representative

Dr. Na Li

Statistics, Data Modelling, Machine Learning
University of Calgary

Dr. Johnny Mack

Transfusion Medicine, Hematology
University of Ottawa
Canadian Blood Services

Silvia Marchesin

Patient Representative

Dr. Kusum Menon

Critical Care Research, Clinical Trials
University of Ottawa

Dr. Susan Nahirniak

Transfusion Medicine, Hematopathology
University of Alberta

Dr. Ishac Nazy

Transfusion Medicine, Basic Science
McMaster University

Dr. Sheila O'Brien

Transfusion Medicine, Epidemiology
University of Ottawa
Canadian Blood Services

Dr. Nancy Robitaille

Transfusion Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
Héma-Québec

Dr. Nadine Shehata

Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Trials
University of Toronto

Dr. Andrew Shih

Transfusion Medicine, Hematopathology, Data Analytics
McMaster University

Dr. Ziad Solh

Transfusion Medicine, Hematology, Knowledge Translation
University of Western Ontario

Dr. Alan Tinmouth

Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology
University of Ottawa

Dr. Kathryn Webert

Transfusion Medicine, Hematology
Canadian Blood Services