John Hess, MD, MPH

Professor, Transfusion Medicine

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

University of Washington

Objectives:

1. Recognize the appeal and long history of blood substitutes.
2. List some toxicities that limited earlier generations of blood substitutes.
3. Appraise claims for the current generation of blood substitutes.

Speaker disclosures: Dr. John Hess discloses financial relationships with Medcura, Inc. (stocks), Hemerus, LLC (consulting), UpToDate (royalties/patent) & AABB Press (royalties/patent) within the past 24 months. All conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

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Grant Acknowledgment: None

2024-2025 Planning Committee Disclosures:

The following members have not had any financial relationships with any ineligible entities in the past 24 months:  Kenn Chen, DO, PhD; Kate Crawford, MD, PhD; Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD; Nabiha Huq Saifee, MD, PhD; Hsuan-Chieh (Joyce) Liao, PhD, DABCC; Sean Murphy, MD, PhD; Brian Shirts, MD, PhD; Rebecca Treger, MD, PhD.

The following members disclose financial relations with ineligible entities within the past 24 months: Susan Fink, MD, PhD Variant Bio (consulting);  Hamilton Tsang, MD Embecta, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, & Roche (stock holder). 

All relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated.

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