The Standing Committee on Ethics
The Standing committee on Ethics was responsible for the revision of the ISBT Code of Ethics (2017). Find out more and download the ISBT Code of Ethics, available in 8 languages.
Terms of Reference
Members of the Standing Committee on Ethics
Mindy Goldman
Chair of the Standing Committee of Ethics, member of the Haemovigilance Working Party, Medical Director, Donation Policy and Studies, Canadian Blood Services, Canada.
Former ISBT Regional Director North Americas (2018-2022).
Gwen Clarke
Secretary General (2018-2026)
ISBT Secretary General, Chair of the Vox SC; Clinical Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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.
Marion Vermeulen
ISBT Regional Director Africa (2024-2028)
Marion Vermeulen is the Executive: Transfusion Medicine and Technical Services at the South African National Blood service (SANBS). She has worked for most of her 35 years in Transfusion Transmissible Infections. Her current role consists of the development of the SANBS strategy with direct responsibility for the donation screening, processing, crossmatching, issuing, transportation and logistics of 1 million donations per annum. She obtained her PhD from Stellenbosch University in advancements of transfusion safety with regards to Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTI). She is an active member of the international society for blood transfusion (ISBT) TTID working party and is the chairperson of the I TRY IT program that provides mentorship to young early career researchers through the ISBT.
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Arwa Al Riyami
Senior Consultant Hematopathologist at Department of Hematology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital.
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Shirley Owusu Ofori
Regional Director Africa (2020-2024)
Shirley Owusu-Ofori is currently Head of Transfusion Medicine Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Acting Director of Central Zonal Blood Center in Kumasi, Ghana. Her research interests span across blood donor care, voluntary donor activity and blood safety in resource-constrained economies. She is a member of the ISBT Academy Advisory Committee and Science Series Editorial Board. Shirley has been runner up for ISBT Award for Developing Countries (Individual) on two consecutive occasions; 2012 and 2014. She serves as the Medical Advisor to the Ghana Haemophilia Society. She is a keen advocate and trainer in blood safety and safe transfusion practices with a special interest in improving survival outcomes in Maternal and Paediatric patients. She has led clinical trials evaluating intervention methods to prevent disease transmission including novel diagnostic approaches and photochemical blood treatment systems to inactivate pathogens and white blood cells in blood products.
Jannison Karlly Cavalcante Ribeiro
Jannison Ribeiro is a Biomedical Scientist who graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in 2008 with a Master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. He obtained his PhD in Health Biotechnology at Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) in 2019. Jannison Ribeiro is also a specialist in Clinical Hematology, 2014 and Clinical Pathology 2019. Currently, he develops postgraduate activities in Hemotherapy and MBA in Health Service Management. Jannison is a professor at UECE and is the coordinator of advanced research in hematology and hemotherapy at Hemoce. He is interested in studying tissue bioengineering, gene therapy, CART cell therapy, complementary molecular diagnosis applied to hematological diseases and Patient Blood Management.
Nelson Hirokazu Tsuno
Nelson H Tsuno currently holds the positions of Deputy Director General of the Japanese Red Cross Kanto-Koshinetsu Block Blood Center, Senior Director of the Laboratory of the same blood center, Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University School of Medicine, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo. He has more than 20 years working experience in the transfusion medicine field, in both the university hospital and the blood service. He has chaired the ISBT Platelet Immunobiology WP with Dr Sentot Santoso and Prof. Ulrich J Sachs until 2021, and started activities of the WP in Asia by organizing training courses and workshops. He is also an active member of the ISBT Granulocyte Immunobiology WP and the Global Blood Safety WP. His research interests include platelets & granulocytes immunobiology, blood donors/donation, blood safety and donor testing. Presently, he is a section editor of the Vox Sanguinis.
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Satyam Arora
ISBT Regional Director South East Asia, Additional Professor, Transfusion Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Child Health (PGICH), Noida, India
Dr Satyam Arora, MBBS, MD (Transfusion Medicine), CABP (AABB) completed his MD in 2012 from the prestigious Post Graduate Institute Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He established a pediatric transfusion-focused academic transfusion medicine department at a stand-alone children’s hospital (under the Government) in India and currently working there as an additional professor. He is presently working to establish a dedicated pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant and cell therapy centre at the same institute.
He has done various international rotations (observerships) in hematopoietic stem cell transplants (Cleveland Clinic, USA) and Cell Therapy (Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor Medical Center, USA). He is a member of the Technical Resource Group (TRG) on blood transfusion services (BTS) under the Directorate General Health Services under the Government of India and an expert member of India's National Donor Vigilance Program. He has been a member of ISBT since 2012 and was a founder member, past chairperson and South-East Asia representative with the Young Professional Council (YPC) of ISBT. Presently he is secretary of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party, co-chair of the Pediatric Transfusions subgroup of ISBT and member of the Hemovigilance Working Party. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards such as “Dr Harold Gunson” Fellowship (2012), the ISBT TTID Working Party Travel Award for Young Scientists (2014), “Young Scientist Award” by the Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine 2021and “Narendra S Bagaria Award” by the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology (2022). His areas of interest are pediatric transfusions, hematopoietic stem cell transplants, apheresis science and hemovigilance.
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