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Erica Wood is a former ISBT Board member and a member of ISBT Working Parties for clinical transfusion, haemovigilance, and transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases. From 2010-2014 she was ISBT regional director for the Western Pacific region and ISBT Past President from 2022-2024. Erica is head of the Transfusion Research Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a consultant haematologist at Monash Health and holds an honorary appointment at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Erica is president of the International Haemovigilance Network (IHN), past-president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT), and a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel in Transfusion Medicine. Erica has served as Chief Examiner (Haematology) for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and chair of the Joint Specialist Advisory Committee in Haematology.

She is a member of the Victorian Blood Matters program advisory committee and the expert group of its Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting (STIR) haemovigilance program. In 2013, Erica was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to support her practice and research in patient blood management.

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Former ISBT Regional Director Southern Americas (2018-2022)

Lilian Castilho obtained her Master and PhD degrees at Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil and performed post-doctoral studies in molecular immunohematology at the New York Blood Center, USA. She has worked in laboratories in Brazil and served as consultant for the American Red Cross in Philadelphia, USA. Lilian has experience in the area of immunology, with emphasis on immunohematology and genetics of blood groups. Currently she is a Professor at University of Campinas in Brazil, where she teaches and has an active research laboratory that supports both projects being carried out by graduate and post graduate students and collaborative research projects. She has served on numerous committees and has been the vice-chair of the ISBT working party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group terminology.