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Mail Ballot Deadline is Jan. 24
for Annual Election of Officers and Directors


Ballots will be mailed during the first week of January to ASBMT members for the annual election of officers and directors. Completed ballots must be received in the ASBMT Executive Office by the close of business on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

As is customary, two candidates have been nominated for each open position, except for candidates nominated for a second term.  The successful officer and director candidates will take seats on the Board as of the close of the BMT Tandem Meetings next month in Honolulu.  The new Vice President will become President-Elect in 2007, and then President in 2008.

Appearing on the mail ballot are the following nominees:

Vice President

  • Helen E. Heslop, MD – Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 
  • Julie M. Vose, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

Treasurer

  • C. Frederick LeMaistre, MD – Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, Texas
    [for re-election to a second term] 

Director/Community Practice

  • Roy A. Beveridge, MD – Fairfax-Northern Virginia Hematology-Oncology, Fairfax, Virginia
  • H. Kent Holland, MD – Northside Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

Director/Laboratory Science

  • Robert B. Levy, PhD – University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
  • William J. Murphy, PhD – University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada

Director/At Large

  • Neena Kapoor, MD – Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
  • Patrick J. Stiff, MD – Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois

Voting in the annual election is limited to those who have full Member status in the Society.