Hua Shan

Dr. Shan has served as a member of the Board since July 2022. Dr. Shan is a Professor and Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine Service at Stanford University Medical Center. Previously Dr. Shan practiced transfusion medicine at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Dr. Shan is a leading expert on international transfusion practice and blood transfusion safety. She has led several large education and research programs on blood availability, blood safety and effective clinical transfusion practice. Dr. Shan directed Johns Hopkins University’s U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Blood Safety Program from 2000 to 2007. From 2004 to 2008, she was the Principal Investigator for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) sponsored Retroviral Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS–II) International China Program. From 2009 to 2018, Dr. Shan served as the Principal Investigator for NHLBI’s Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) International-China Program. Dr. Shan is a member of editorial boards of several leading international journals including Transfusion and Transfusion Medicine Review. Dr. Shan is a member of the ISBT’s Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party and AABB’s Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee. Dr. Shan has contributed to over one hundred publications in the field of blood transfusion practice.