Mail Ballot Deadline is Jan. 28
for Annual Election of Officers and Directors

Ballots were mailed on Dec. 28 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 Monday, Jan 28.

As is customary, two candidates have been nominated for each open position.  The successful officer and director candidates will take seats on the Board as of the close of the BMT Tandem Meetings next month in San Diego.  The new Vice President will become President-Elect in 2009, and then President in 2010.

Appearing on the mail ballot are the following nominees:

Vice President

• A. John Barrett, MD – National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 
• Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, New York

Secretary

• Edward D. Ball, MD – University of California San Diego, LaJolla, California

• Roy B. Jones, MD, PhD – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Director/Community or Clinical Practice

• Edwin P. Alyea, III, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

• Steven M. Devine, MD – Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio

Director/Laboratory Science

• Kenneth R. Cooke, MD – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio
• Laurence J.N. Cooper, MD, PhD – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Director/At Large

• H. Joachim Deeg, MD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
• Richard T. Maziarz, MD – Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon

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