From MGH: Zofia Walczak, Margaret Leger (MABB President), and Carol Milbury (Carol has been employed at MGH for 50 years)
Karen Snow, First Vice President/P.A.C.E. Coordinator, and Matthew Longval, Second Vice President/Corresponding Secretary
Student and Tech Poster Presentations
From left to right: Leonard Ventura (MABB Treasurer), Marilyn Yavanian (MABB Exhibit Committee), Sue Croteau (MABB Past President), Kathleen Cardillo (MABB Recording Secretary).
Pictures of MGH attendees
From left to right: Eugene M. Berkman, M.D. (recipient of the MABB’s Morten Grove-Rasmussen Award in 1977), Jorge Rios, M.D. (Medical Director, American Red Cross/New England Region), Yanhua Li, M.D. (UMass Memorial Medical Center), and Carolyn Young, M.D. (Vice President and Chief Medical Officer/Rhode Island Blood Center).
From left to right: Olive Sturtevant (MABB Board Member), Karen Snow (MABB First Vice President), and Denise Harmening, PhD (MABB 2008 Karen Tiegerman Award Recipient)
Karen Tiegerman Award lecture by Dr. Harmening: “Cord Blood Transplantation: Current Status and Future Prospects.”
UMass Lowell student presenters (in alphabetical order: Mai Drew, Andrea Graham, Ching-Ju Lu, Arthur McGee, Emily Rene, and Aaron Stella); professional presenter Linda Martin; Dr. Kay Doyle (UMass Lowell) and Dr. Denise Harmening (Department of Medical and Research Technology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore).
Mai Drew: "Intrauterine Transfusion" Andrea Graham: "Cord Blood Banking" Ching-Ju Lu: "West Nile Virus: Transfusion
Transmission"
Arthur McGee: "Hemoglobin Substitutes" Emily Rene: "TRALI" (poster competition winner) Aaron Stella: "Enzyme Converted Type O
Blood"
Judges for the student and professional presentations: Dr. Jorge Rios, Janet Kilbride and Bev Marotto
2008 MABB Morten Grove-Rasmussen Award lecture: “Biovigilance at the Bedside: Enhancing Blood Safety in the Hospital … and Beyond” by Dr. Chet Andrzejewski, Jr.
Dr. Kay Doyle: “The Clinical Laboratory Scientist Shortage: What You Can Do About It!”
“How Malaria Determined Your Blood Type,” by Dr. Sunny Dzik (MGH)
Dr. Joann Moulds: “Blood Group Genotyping: The Future is Now”
Dr. Harmening signing a copy of her book, Modern Blood Banking And Transfusion Practices
From Quincy Medical Center: Gale Martell (MABB Photographer) and Krystyna Skrinyaz
Photos from MABB seminars, past and present.
