British Blood Transfusion Society's Kenneth Goldsmith Award. He also co-founded the NHSBT Clinical Studies Unit, its Systematic Reviews Initiative for Transfusion Medicine and the Transfusion Evidence Library.

His work using technology to improve transfusion practice has won numerous national awards and is an exemplar for the NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) initiative. Dr. Murphy chaired the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on transfusion published in November 2015. He is current Chair of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative and Vice President of the American Association of Blood Banks.

PAUL N. NESS, MD

Director of the Transfusion Medicine Division, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Professor of Pathology, Medicine and Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Ness received his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His postgraduate work includes a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, fellowship training in hematology-oncology at the University of California San Francisco, and a transfusion medicine fellowship at Irwin Memorial Blood Bank in San Francisco.

From 1972-1974, Dr. Ness was a staff associate in the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been a member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Board of Directors for many years and became President in 1999. He served on the editorial boards of Transfusion and AABB Press and became editor of Transfusion in July, 2003. Dr. Ness