Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Dr. Jonathan Waters’ areas of expertise primarily focus on transfusion management, blood salvage and obstetrics. He has been federally funded to support investigation in these areas with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and four books on the topic of blood management as well as a book on neurologic disease in pregnancy. In addition to conducting research, he has served on the editorial board of the journal Transfusion and is currently serving as an associate editor.

Dr. Waters is Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Director for the Acute and Interventional Pain Program at UPMC, Program Director of the Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesiology fellowship, as well as a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Heis also Medical Director of the Patient Blood Management Program at UPMC and Medical Director of the Blood Management Division for Procirca, Inc., which is a UPMC-owned Biomedical Engineering Company.

Dr. Waters is a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Blood Banks between 2011 and 2015. He co-chaired the blood management technical advisory panel for the Joint Commission from 2007 to 2011, which developed performance measures related to blood management. He now serves as Chair of a technical advisory panel to make these measures electronic continuous quality measures.

MARLENE S. WILLIAMS, MD, FACC

Dr. Marlene Williams is currently the director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center where she