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Words of Cynthia
Cynthia So-Osman
ISBT Vice President (2024-2028)
Cynthia So-Osman finalized her specialism in Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty training in Haematology (2000) and in Transfusion Medicine (2002). She obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Clinical Epidemiology (2008) and obtained her PhD with a thesis titled: “Patient Blood Management in Elective Orthopaedic Surgery” in 2012.
Since 2002, Cynthia is a Clinical Consultant in Transfusion Medicine at Sanquin Blood Bank at the Department of Transfusion Medicine in the Netherlands, and she actively participates in Patient Blood Management and COVID-19 related studies. As a Haematology Consultant, she works at Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, NL. She is the past chair of the ISBT Clinical Transfusion Working Party, she is a member of the International Collaborative on Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG) and a member of the BEST Collaborative.
Words of Erica
Erica Wood
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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Background
The World Health Organization developed Educational Modules on Clinical Use of Blood in partnership with the International Society of Blood Transfusion Clinical Transfusion Working Party in 2021. A collaboration that provide accessible learning materials for prescribers of blood and other staff involved in clinical transfusion to make appropriate clinical decisions on transfusion and contribute to wider efforts to optimize clinical practice of transfusion.
