International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC)
The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) meets once a year during a congress. The committee is chaired by the immediate Past President and includes all the chairpersons of the ISBT Working Parties together with the Secretary General and the Scientific Secretary.
Terms of Reference
Members of the International Scientific Advisory Committee
Martin L. Olsson
Past President (2020-2022)
Martin L. Olsson is a full Professor of Transfusion Medicine since 2006 and also the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (2018- ) at Lund University in Sweden. He received his M.D. (1991) and Ph.D. (1997) in Lund where he also heads up a large research group on red blood cell biology. Since 2001, he is the Medical Director of the Nordic Blood Group Reference Laboratory, part of healthcare in Region Skåne, Sweden. He was a Visiting Scientist at IBGRL/BITS in Bristol, UK (1996) and a Visiting Associate Professor/Lecturer at Harvard Medical School (2003-2008). His main clinical and research interests involve the biochemistry, genetics and function of red cell surface molecules with a special emphasis on their roles in hemolysis, hematopoiesis and hemostasis. Prof. Olsson has received numerous awards from different organisations including ISBT, BBTS and AABB and is currently a Wallenberg Clinical Scholar (2016-2026), appointed by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation after selection by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He previously served on the ISBT Board as Regional Director for Western Europe (2006-2008) and was ISBT’s first Scientific Secretary (2011-2015).
Gwen Clarke
Secretary General (2018-2022)
Gwen Clarke is a physician with training at the University of Alberta and at Emory University. She has clinical and research interests in perinatal immunohematology and experience as a hospital transfusion medicine physician and with the Canadian blood supplier. Her current role with Canadian Blood services includes medical leadership for perinatal and immunohematology reference laboratories, consultation in donor testing and for the Rare Blood Program. Gwen is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Alberta. She is a former program director for residency training in Hematopathology and an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Gwen has recently completed a term as president of the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine.
