Negrin Installed as President;
Heslop Elected Vice President

Robert Negrin, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation at Stanford University, has been installed as president of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Helen Heslop, MD, professor of medicine and of pediatrics and director of adult stem cell transplantation at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, is the newly elected and installed vice president, to become president in 2008.

The installation of officers and directors occurred at the BMT Tandem Meetings in February in Honolulu.  The election was by mail ballot among members of the Society in January.

C. Fred LeMaistre, MD, of the Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, was re-elected treasurer.

Newly elected and installed directors are:

• H. Kent Holland, MD, of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Group of Georgia at Northside Hospital in Atlanta
• William Murphy, PhD, of the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno
• Neena Kapoor, MD, of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Robert Soiffer, MD, was elevated to president-elect and will assume the presidency in 2007.  He is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and co-director of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The new ASBMT president, Dr. Negrin, earned a bachelor of arts in biochemistry at the University of California-Berkley, and his medical degree cum laude in 1984 at Harvard Medical School.  He was an intern, resident and fellow in hematology at Stanford University Medical Center.  In 1990 he joined the faculty at Stanford University. 

Dr. Negrin has been a member of the ASBMT Board of Directors since 2002 and has chaired its Committee to Study the ASBMT Mission.  He is an associate editor for Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and was scientific program chair for the 2004 BMT Tandem Meetings in Orlando.  He is a former president of the International Society for Cellular Therapy.