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Board of DirectorsThe Suzanne Ledin Memorial Foundation currently has 8 directors. Board of Directors meetings are held twice yearly in conjunction with the AABB annual meeting in October and the CBBS annual meeting in April-May. Directors and Officers are elected for a yearly term. No Officers or Directors receive any compensation or reimbursements from the Foundation.
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Michael
Breard MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ) has many years of experience
in blood banking including transfusion service, donor center,
commercial manufacturing, project management and consulting. He is
an active member of the AABB and the Project Management Institute,
and a senior member of the American Society for Quality. Michael
received his BS in Medical Technology from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill,his Medical Technology Training at Duke University
and his MS in Medical Technology from California State University. He
participates as director and/or speaker in international, national,
state, regional and local conferences as well as serving on and chairing
various committees.
Nancy
Heddle MSc, F.C.S.M.L.S. (D) is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University and the Director of the McMaster Transfusion Research Program. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Pathology and in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is an Adjunct Scientist with Canadian Blood Services. She works collaboratively with clinicians and research faculty to address a wide variety of transfusion questions using quantitative, qualitative and mixed method techniques. She has published over 150 scientific papers, given numerous presentations nationally and internationally. She teaches and supervises residents in Hematology and Pathology and Fellows in Transfusion Medicine and Masters level students in Health Sciences. She has also served as a faculty member for the ASH Clinical Research Training Institute for the past 4 years. She has received over 15 national and international awards including the International Woman in Transfusion Award from the International Society of Blood Transfusion, the Emil von Behring Award given by the German Society of Blood Transfusion and most recently was the 2015 recipient of the Suzanne Ledin Lectureship.
Sue
Johnson MSTM, MT(ASCP)SBB is Manager of Immunohematology
Services at BloodCenter of Wisconsin, a non-profit organization widely
acclaimed as one of the top transfusion medicine organizations in
the world and a leader in diagnostic testing of blood, blood research
and blood collection. Sue also serves as Director of BloodCenter of
Wisconsin’s Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB) Program. She has
taken an active role in the education of Clinical Laboratory Science
students for over 20 years. She has been with BloodCenter of Wisconsin
since 1983.
George
Ledin, JD is Professor of Computer Science at the California
State University, Sonoma. He began his university career by doing
research on portions of the Apollo Project. He met Suzanne at the
University of San Francisco, where she was completing her undergraduate
education and working on laboratory experiments under his supervision,
married her in 1968, and supported her dedication to public health,
laboratory technology, and blood banking throughout her life.
Katya
Ledin, PhD MPH, HCLD(ABB) is currently Director of the Napa-Solano-Yolo-Marin County Public
Health Laboratory, which performs clinical, environmental and animal testing for a four-county service area with a population of 1.1 million residents. Katya is also the Northern Representative at Large for the California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors (CAPHLD) and co-chair of the CAPHLD Training Committee, which coordinates the state-wide Public Health Microbiology Training Program. She has worked in public health research and
disease control since 1994, specializing in vector-borne and zoonotic
diseases. Katya was inspired to pursue her career at an early
age by Suzanne Ledin’s lifelong enthusiasm for applying scientific
and medical knowledge to improve public health. 
Holli Mason, MD is is currently the Associate Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine, Medical Director of Core and Allied Laboratory and Laboratory Support Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She is also Clinical Professor of Pathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and chair of the Southern California ARC Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Mason was recently President of the California Blood Bank Society and past committee chair of the CBBS Scientific Program Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Southern California Region from 2002-08. She has given numerous talks on Transfusion Medicine to the blood banking community as well as to other medical specialists who utilize blood.
Paul
Ness, MD is director of the Transfusion Medicine Division
at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of Pathology, Medicine,
and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Ness was the CEO and medical director of the Greater Chesapeake
and Potomac Region of the American Red Cross Blood Services from 1983-1999.
He has been a member of the AABB Board of Directors for many years
and became President in 1999. He served on the editorial boards of
Transfusion and AABB Press and became editor of Transfusion in July,
2003. He has been a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists
Board of Registry Blood Bank examination committee and the FDA Blood
Products Advisory Committee. Dr. Ness has written many articles for
medical journals and is a co-editor of two comprehensive texts in
transfusion medicine.
W. Tait Stevens, MD, is Chief of Transfusion Medicine and Histocompatibility Sections of the Clinical Laboratory at Loma Linda University Medical Center, and Program Director of the Pathology Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics, and was the chair of both the AABB Information Systems committee and of the CBBS Website/e-Network Forum Committee. He received the AABB Baxter Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Award in 2005 and the California Blood Bank Society (CBBS) Upton-Hemphill Award in 2012.