Sandra J. Nance MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB

Sandra Nance is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and faculty at the Diego Portales University, Chile. She provided leadership to the American Rare Donor Program, American Red Cross National Laboratories Blood Group Serology, HLA, Molecular Testing, Neutrophil and Specialized Testing. She nationalized the American Red Cross SBB Program. She holds an MS in Pathology from the University of Maryland and SBB from the Johns Hopkins. She was named ASCP and the AABB Halls of Fame and is an AABB Foundation Scholar. She was Editor in Chief of the Immunohematology Journal. She developed the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) for serologic testing and the monocyte monolayer assay (MMA) used by the NRLBGS. She initiated the NRLBGS' International MMA Training Classes. Ms. Nance held leadership positions in the AABB, ASCP, ICII, and ISBT. She reeived the John Elliott, President's and Sally Frank awards from AABB, Mastership Award from ASCP, Ron Dubin Memorial Lectureship from the Hospital Blood Bank Supervisors of New York, the Kay Beattie Memorial Lectureship from the Michigan Association of Blood Banks, the Pettaway-Shepherd Award of the North Carolina Association of Blood Banks, the John Moulds Memorial Lectureship from the South Central Association of Blood Banks and the Jean Stubbins Memorial Lectureship from the University of Texas Medical Branch. She was named a Health Manpower Development Plan Expert of the Singapore Ministry of Health and Technical Expert by the IANZ in New Zealand. Her career positions include Lead Technologist at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Immunohematology Research Associate in Dr Garratty's Research Laboratory. She was faculty for University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, NIH and American Red Cross. She has authored or co-authored over 50 papers, 200 abstracts and edited 9 books as well as giving over 250 invited lectures for local, national and international societies.