11.1 List of contributors

Dr Guenther J Wittauer, Head of Blood Services,
Austrian Red Cross Blood Services; Head of Administration,
Austrian Red Cross Blood Donation Centre for Vienna,
Lower Austria and Burgenland, AUSTRIA

Dr Christof Jungbauer, Head of Laboratories,
Austrian Red Cross Blood Donation Centre for Vienna,
Lower Austria and Burgenland, AUSTRIA

Dr Petr Turek, Head of National Blood Transfusion Committee,
Thomayer Teaching Hospital, Prague, CEZCH REPUBLIC

Dr Jiri Masopust, Vice President of the Czech Society for
Transfusion Medicine / Head of Department of Transfusiology,
Masaryk Hospital Usti nad Labem, CEZCH REPUBLIC

Dr Lenka Walterova, Chief, Department of Haematology,
Liberec Regional Hospital, Liberec, CZECH REPUBLIC

Dr Riin Kullaste, Director of Blood Centre, North Estonia Medical Centre, ESTONIA

Dr Georges Andreu, Medical and Scientific Director,
National Institute of Blood Transfusion, FRANCE

Dr Genevieve Gondrexon, Establissement Francais du Sang Lorraine Champagne, FRANCE

Professor Christian Seidl, Vice-Medical Director,
Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology,
German Red Cross, GERMANY

Dr Olga Marantidou, Scientific Director,
Greek National Blood Centre, GREECE

Dr Eleftheria Zervou, Blood Bank Director,
University Hospital of Loannina, GREECE

Dr Eleni Theodori, Blood Bank Director, University Hospital of Patras, GREECE

Dr Vincenzo de Angelis, Director,
Transfusion Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-
Universitaria, ‘S. Maria della Misericordia’- UDINE (Italy)

Dr Stefan Laspina, Consultant in Transfusion Medicine,
Mater Dei Hospital, MALTA

Dr Magdalena Letowska, Deputy Director for Transfusion
Medicine, Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine,
POLAND

Dr Margarida Amil, Chief of Service of Imunohemoterapia,
Centro Hospitalar do Porto, PORTUGAL

Dr Fatima Nascimento, Chief of Service in Transfusion
Medicine and member of the Board of Portuguese Blood
Institute, Portuguese Blood Institute, PORTUGAL

Dr Laura Castro, Director of the Regional Blood Centre of Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Dr Erika Deak, Assistant Professor,
Department of Physiology and Immunology,
University of Medicine and Pharmacy,
Victor Babes Timisoara, ROMANIA

Dr Alina Debrota, Director, Regional Blood Transfusion Centre
of Constanta, ROMANIA

Dr Andy Rosin, Director of Transfuziology Center, International
Collaborations, ROMANIA

Dr Dragoslav Domanovic, Director of Blood Supply
Department, Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia, SLOVENIA

Professor Rene R P de Vries, Head of Blood Transfusion
Service and President of the International Haemovigilance
Network (IHN), Leiden University Medical Centre,
THE NETHERLANDS

Dr Kieran Morris, Acting Medical Director, Northern Ireland
Blood Transfusion Service, NORTHERN IRELAND

Dr Simon Stanworth, Consultant Haematologist, National Blood
Authority and Oxford Radcliff Hospitals NHS Trust, ENGLAND

Dr Shubha Allard, Consultant Haematologist, National Blood
Authority and Barts and the London NHS Trust, ENGLAND

Dr Brian McClelland, Strategy Director, Scottish National Blood
Transfusion Service, SCOTLAND

Professor Ian M Franklin, Medical and Scientific Director,
Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, SCOTLAND

Liz Pirie, Transfusion Education Specialist, Scottish National
Blood Transfusion Service, SCOTLAND

Advisory Board
Dr Dragoslav Domanic,
Director of the Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia

Professor Ian Franklin,
Medical and Scientific Director of the Scottish National Blood
Transfusion Service

Ms Lynda Hamlyn,
Chief Executive of NHS Blood and Transplant, UK

Mr Angus Macmillian, Douglas,
Former National Director of the Scottish National Blood
Transfusion Service

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Erhard Seifried,
Ärztlicher Direktor und Medizinischer Geschäftsführer -
Instit für Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhämatologie Frankfurt a. M.

Project Team
Professor Ian Franklin
Medical and Scientific Director

Dr Brian McClelland
Consultant

Mrs Elizabeth Pirie
Transfusion Nurse Specialist, Better Blood Transfusion
Programme

Mrs Shirley Russell
Project Support Officer