Medical Director, Laboratory Stewardship
Dr. Ford currently serves as Director for both the Peripheral Stem Cell Transplant Program and the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She is also a Founding Member and Past President of the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM). Additionally, she has authored numerous publications about Patient Blood Management.
Dr. Ford received her doctorate from the University of Miami, completed her residency at the Graduate Hospital, and fellowship at Fox Chase Cancer Center. She was recognized in Philadelphia magazine’s annual Top Docs issues for 2018 and 2019, by America’s Top Doctors for 2017, and Best Doctors in America from 2005-2018.
Irwin Gross is Senior Medical Director at Accumen Inc. Dr. Gross is a nationally recognized speaker and published author in Patient Blood Management and Transfusion Safety. Prior to his role as Senior Medical Director at Accumen, Dr. Gross served as the Chief of Pathology at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC, where he started the patient blood management program in 2006), Medical Director of Laboratories at Affiliated Laboratories, Inc., and as Medical Director of Transfusion Services from 1987 through 2014.
Dr. Shander is one of the world’s leading experts on bloodless medicine and patient blood management. He is Emeritus Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Hyperbaric Medicine at Englewood Health in Englewood, NJ as well as an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Medicine and Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Shander is a founding member, Advisory Director, and Past President of the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM). In addition, he currently lectures nationally and internationally on topics related to patient blood management and his more than 200 peer reviewed publications have appeared in several prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals.
For more than 10 years, Dr. Tibi has been an internationally and nationally recognized leader in Patient Blood Management. He is currently Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Yavapai Regional Medical Center and Managing Partner at Phoenix Cardiac Surgery in Arizona. Previously, he served as President of the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) and he is now a member of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Tibi was also lead author with several renowned cardiac surgery professionals on the groundbreaking “Society of Thoracic Surgeons/Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists/American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management,” published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Tibi completed his surgical residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, received his doctor of medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and his BS in neuroscience from the University of Rochester.