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Steering Committee

About

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:

  • Define the objectives of the network
  • Create a framework for tracking progress in meeting the objectives and re-calibrating if required
  • Create and implement the organizational structure for the network
  • Evaluate the network’s achievements regarding research output, recruitment and funding on a quarterly basis
  • Help identify funding opportunities and projects/investigators for the submission
  • Identify priority themes for research
  • Review and approve membership of the CTTG SC and WGs in conjunction with the directors.
  • Determine a process for selection of dedicated research themes

People Listing

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. Oksana Prokopchuk-Gauk

Transfusion Medicine, Hematology, University of Saskatchewan

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, University of British Columbia

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