A/Prof Rhonda Holdsworth
2024 Prof. Alison Street AO
2023 Robert Flower
ANZSBT Awards
Award recipients for 2025
Ruth Sanger Oration
(inaugural) James Isbister Award (sponsored by National Blood Authority)
Dr Rena Hirani – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Formerly Peter Schiff Award
2024 Neil Waters
2023 Prof. Catherine Hyland
Presidential Symposium Award
Dr Sara Chiaretti – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Laboratory grown cord blood derived red cells display similarities to cord and neonatal red blood cells: preliminary findings from HEARTBEAT study
* New* Peter Schiff Award (sponsored by CSL Behring)
Dr Akmez Latona – West Moreton Health
Single vs Dual Platelet-Inhibited FIBTEM Assays: Defining the Right Fibrinogen Threshold for Bleeding Patients.
Travel Grant – Improvements within a Blood Bank Laboratory (sponsored by ParagonCare-Immulab)
Aust/NZ Mrs Michaela Spooner – SA Health
Reduction in alloimmunisation and transfusion requirements in myeloid neoplasm patients receiving Rhesus and Kell phenotype-matched red blood cells
APAC Prof Dolly Daniel – CMC, Vellore
Resource constrained settings and high-end technology – strange bedfellows? Implementation of a partially process modelled blood distribution system (BDS) & a 2 year lookback on efficacy and reliability
Travel Grant – Patient Safety and Haemovigilance
Aust/NZ Dr Allison Mo – Monash University
Longitudinal changes in transfusion practice in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS): a population data-linkage study
APAC Mrs Eurosia Cham – Timor Leste
The characteristics of Blood Donors at the Timor-Leste National Blood Bank and the proportion of Donations Positive for Transfusion-Transmissible Infections
