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Advisory Panel
In addition to the panel members below, Touch Briefings would like to thank
Gerry Dolan President, British Society of Haematology and Thrombosis (BSHT)
Pier Mannuccio Manucci Past President, International Society on
Thrombosis and Haematology (ISTH)
Willem E Fibbe
President, European Hematology Association (EHA)
Willem E Fibbe is President of the European Hematology Association (EHA), and a Professor of Haematology and
Stem Cell Biology and Head of the Department of Immuno-haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Leiden
University Medical Centre, The Netherlands. His previous positions at the same institution include Head of the
Bone Marrow Transplantation Programme and Head of the Centre for Stem Cell Therapy. Professor Fibbe is a
member of several scientific societies, including the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
(EBMT), the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the EHA. ■
Robin Foà
President Elect, European Hematology Association (EHA)
Robin Foà is President Elect of the European Hematology Association (EHA), and a Professor of Haematology and
Head of the Institute of Haematology at ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome. He has also worked in the MRC
Leukaemia Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, London and at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New
York. Professor Foà is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Group for Adult Haematological Diseases
(GIMEMA) and co-ordinates the current protocols for acute lymphocytic leukaemia and chronic lymphocytic
leukaemia. He is also a member of the Research Committee of the Italian Ministry of Health. ■
Brenda ES Gibson
President, British Society for Haematology (BSH)
Brenda ES Gibson is President of the British Society for Haematology (BSH), and a Paediatric Haematologist
at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. She is Chairperson of the United Kingdom Childhood
Leukaemia Working Party and an Executive Member of the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group. Dr
Gibson is a former member of the Standing Advisory Committee in Haematology of the Joint Committee for
Higher Medical Training, which is responsible for higher specialist training in haematology, and a member of
the Council of the Royal College of Pathologists, which is responsible for the exit examination for higher
specialist training in haematology. ■
Eliane Gluckman
President, European School of Haematology (ESH)
Eliane Gluckman is President of the European School of Haematology (ESH), and Medical Co-ordinator for the
Department of Haematology/Oncology at Hospital Saint-Louis in Paris, France. She is also the Laboratory Director
at Paris University. Professor Gluckman has established a reputation as a leading physician and researcher. She
has been conducting stem cell transplantations for over 30 years and performed the first ever successful umbilical
cord transplantation on a patient suffering from Fanconi anaemia. Professor Gluckman is an international
instructor in haematology, transplantation and immunology, with over 500 scientific publications. ■
Luigi D Notarangelo
Past President, European Society for Immune Deficiencies (ESID)
Luigi D Notarangelo is Past President of the European Society for Immune Deficiencies (ESID), and Jeffrey
Modell Chair of Paediatric Immunology Research and a Professor of Paediatrics and Pathology at Harvard
Medical School. He co-chairs the Primary Immunodeficiency Committee of the International Union of
Immunological Societies. His main interests are in the characterisation of the molecular and cellular bases of
human congenital immunodeficiencies and haematopoietic cell transplantation and gene therapy for these
disorders, and he has authored more than 370 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Professor
Notarangelo trained at the University Medical School in Pavia, where he obtained his MD in 1980. ■
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