Chairs and Members

The EHA SWG commenced in 2020, but initial work was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We therefore started in 2021, in preparation for a (successful) SWG meeting in 2022.

Terms of existing members and plans for new members will be reviewed in 2024.

Chair (term: 2021–)

Simon Stanworth, NHS Blood and Transplant/Oxford University Hospitals NHST Trust/University of Oxford (UK)

Co-chair (term: 2021–)

Olga Lopez-Villar, University Hospital of Salamanca (Spain)

SWG Steering Committee members (term: 2021–)

  • Hendrik Feys, Belgian Red Cross Flanders, Transfusion Research Center, and Ghent University (Belgium)
  • Cynthia So-Osman, Sanquin (The Netherlands)
  • Matea Vinkovic, Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine (Croatia)
  • Allison Waters, Irish Blood Transfusion Service (Ireland)

General advisory members (term: 2021–)

  • Andreas Buser, Blutspendezentrum SRK (Switzerland)
  • Sasha Zeerleder, Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern (Switzerland)
  • Daniele Prati, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale, Maggiore Policlinico (Italy)
  • Miquel Lozano, Hospital de Clinic Barcelona (Spain)
  • Linda Larsson, Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden)
  • Panaglotis Christoforou, National and Kappdrstrian University of Athens (Greece)
  • France Pirenne, INSERM U955 Transfusión and red blood cell disease (France)