J. Wade Atkins MS, MLS, SBB, CQA, CABP(H)

J. Wade Atkins is an MT ASCP with a Specialty in Blood Banking, is credential as a Certified Advanced Biotherapies Professional, a certified Quality Auditor through the American Society for Quality and has a Master’s of Science in Health Care Administration. For 21 years he has been associated with quality assurance and regulatory affairs for the Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) in the Clinical Center for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland and is currently supervising a staff of 8 quality associates. He has responsibilities for ensuring compliance with standards and regulations for manufacturing high quality products. The DTM is a full-service blood bank with a licensed collection facility and a full transfusion service and maintains an active HCTP manufacturing facility that supports roughly 80 protocols and 35 or more of those are regulated by IND at the FDA. The Blood establishment and Center for Cellular Engineering employee about 200 staff. He serves the blood and cell therapy communities as: • A member of the AABB Cellular Therapy Standards Committee • A member of the AABB Cellular Therapy Accreditation Committee • A member of the ISCT North American Regulatory Affairs Committee • A member of the FACT Quality Committee • The Chief Editor of the FACT Quality Handbook