Alison Street, MD elected WFH vice-president medical
Alison Street, MD, of Melbourne Australia has been elected as the World Federation of Hemophilia’s (WFH) new vice-president medical. She was elected at the WFH’s General Assembly on 6 June, at the Hemophilia 2008 World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Street will succeed Paul Giangrande, MD of Oxford, England who has served in this position for the past eight years. As vice president medical, Dr. Street will chair the WFH Medical Advisory Board and guide the medical programs of the Federation. This is the head medical position within the WFH, and provides important leadership on behalf of the WFH to improve standards of care and achieve Treatment for All around the world.
Dr. Street has been a member of the WFH executive committee since 2002, and was vice-president programs from 2006 to 2008. A practicing hematologist, Dr Street is the centre director of the Ronald Sawers Hemophilia Centre at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Street also works closely with Australian government and regulatory authorities in developing hemophilia and transfusion policy, and was the Chief Examiner in Hematology from 2001 to 2006.
Mark Skinner, Washington, D.C. USA and Rob Christie, Plympton, South Australia, were both unanimously re-elected as President and Vice President Finance respectively for another four years.
Additional members of the WFH Executive Committee elected by the General Assembly include:
Paula Bolton-Maggs, MD, Manchester, England; Aris Hashim, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia; Dr. Johnny Mahlangu, MD, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Carlos Safadi, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition, Alok Srivastava, MD, Vellore, India; and Eric Stolte, London, Ontario, Canada were selected by the WFH Executive Committee.
Returning members of the Executive Committee include: Gordon Clarke, Belfast, UK; Nigel Key, MD, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Angelika Batarova, MD, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Cesar Garrido, Caracas, Venezuela; and Claudia Black, Montreal, Canada.
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Mark Skinner, from Washington, DC, was re-elected for a second term as WFH president. Under his leadership, the WFH has expanded its visibility, programs and services around the world. It also launched a new strategic plan with the vision of Treatment for All, which has expanded services to those with von Willebrand disease, rare factor deficiencies and inherited platelet disorders. |
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Dr. Alison Street was elected as vice-president medical. A member of the WFH executive committee since 2002, Dr. Street was vice-president programs from 2006 to 2008. During her tenure, the Global Alliance for Progress (GAP) program experienced considerable developments in the range of activities and number of participating countries. A practicing hematologist, Dr Street is the centre director of the Ronald Sawers Hemophilia Centre at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Under her leadership the centre became a WFH International Hemophilia Training Centre and has trained doctors, nurses, and medical technologists from many countries in Asia. |
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Rob Christie, of Plympton, South Australia, was re-elected as vice president finance. Since first elected in 2004, Mr. Christie has drawn on his professional experience in business management and has played a key role in improving the financial position of the WFH. Mr. Christie is a past president and long-time board member for Haemophilia Foundation Australia. |
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Dr. Paula Bolton-Maggs, of Manchester, United Kingdom, was re-elected as an executive member. A member of the executive committee since 2004, she is a hematologist at the Manchester Comprehensive Care Haemophilia Centre with an interest in rare coagulation disorders. She chairs the WFH Rare Bleeding Disorders and Von Willebrand Disease and the Data and Demographics committees. |
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Aris Hashim, of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, was elected as an executive member. Mr. Hashim was an executive committee member from 2004 – 2006. He is president of the Haemophilia Society of Malaysia and a management trainer by profession. He has been a facilitator at numerous WFH trainings for national patient organizations and authored two publications on capacity building. |
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Dr. Johnny Mahlangu, of Johannesburg, South Africa, was elected as an executive member. Dr. Mahlangu is currently the director of the Adult Hemophilia Comprehensive Care Unit at Johannesburg Hospital, and the president of the South African Society of Haematology. He was principal co-author of the South African Guidelines on Haemophilia in 2008. He has been a key WFH volunteer in the South African region and parts of West Africa. |
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Carlos Safadi, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected as an executive member. Mr. Safadi has been a board member of the Argentinean Hemophilia Foundation since 1995 and vice president since 2002. A lawyer specializing in constitutional law, Mr. Safadi has been a facilitator at WFH trainings for national patient organization leaders. |
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Dr. Alok Srivastava, of Vellore, India, was co-opted to the executive committee and appointed vice-president communications and public policy. He was instrumental in developing the WFH guidelines for treatment of hemophilia and in the creation of web-based training modules to develop core expertise for care of people with hemophilia. Dr. Srivastava also played a key role in developing the WFH’s International External Quality Assurance Scheme to monitor and improve laboratory performance in hemophilia treatment centres worldwide. |
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Eric Stolte, of London, Ontario, Canada, was co-opted to the executive committee as an executive member. Mr. Stolte has served as president and vice-president of the Canadian Hemophilia Society (CHS) where he chaired the Resource Development committee and had a key role in the creation of a national fundraising strategy. He is president of an international non-profit organization in Canada, where he is extensively involved in fundraising. |
About the WFH
The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with hemophilia and related bleeding disorders. Since it was established in 1963, the WFH has grown into a truly global network with member organizations in 113 countries and official recognition from the World Health Organization.
Last updated July 2008
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