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A
Acronyms
AABB
American Association of Blood Banks
ABC
American Blood Commission
ABRA
American Blood Resources Association
AIDS
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ALT
alanine aminotransferase
ARC
American Red Cross
ASWBPL
Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory
CBER
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
CCBC
Council of Community Blood Centers
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CJD
Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease
CUE
confidential unit exclusion
FDA
Food and Drug Administration
HBV
hepatitis B virus
HBcAB
hepatitis B core antibody
HCV
hepatitis C virus
HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
HTLV
human T-lymphocyte virus
MI
myocardial infarction
NIH
National Institutes of Health
OBI
Oklahoma Blood Institute
RBC
red blood cells
STS
serologic test for syphilis
USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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B
Workshop Participants
(Speakers and Forum members are listed separately on pages iii and iv)
Deidra Abbott
College of American Pathologists
Maj. Janine Babcock, U.S. Army
The Blood Research Detachment
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Steve Bradshaw
Executive Vice President
Lifeblood
Eileen Church
American Association of Blood Banks
Donald Colburn
American Home Care Federation
Richard J. Davey, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
American Red Cross
Garth Granrud
Marketing Research
American Red Cross
Liz Hudak
American Red Cross
David E. Jenkins, Jr.
American Red Cross
Louisville Regional Blood Center
Kurt Kroemer
U.S. General Accounting Office
Karen Shoos Lipton, J.D.
Chief Executive Officer
American Association of Blood Banks
Peter Logue
Coral Therapeutics
Jane Mackey, MBA
President
American Association of Blood Banks
James L. MacPherson
Executive Director
Council of Community Blood Banks
Jean Otter, MT (ASCP), SBB
American Association of Blood Banks
Rob Purvis
Blood Center of Southeastern
Wisconsin
James Reilly
Executive Director
American Blood Resources Association
Ernest Simon, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Blood Systems, Inc.
Jennifer Thomas
American Society of Clinical Pathologists
Robert Travis
President and CEO of the Blood Bank of Delaware