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#AABB24: Meet the 2024 Social Media Champions

September 03, 2024

Whether you are beginning your career or a seasoned professional, social media is a powerful tool to connect with peers, ask questions, share knowledge, and discuss emerging issues in transfusion medicine and biotherapies.

Social media will once again play an important role at the 2024 AABB Annual Meeting, taking place Oct. 19-22 in Houston, Texas. This year, AABB is partnering with 10 social media champions from across the blood and biotherapies community to help Annual Meeting attendees expand their learning during #AABB24.

Follow the social media champions for their insight on this year’s can’t-miss sessions, practice-changing research, networking, special events and Annual Meeting fun. AABB also encourages attendees to join the discussion ahead of and during the Annual Meeting using the #AABB24 hashtag.

Meet the 2024 champions:

  • Jasem Albasri, MSTM, SBB(ASCP)CM, blood bank supervisor at Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Albasri will be posting on X (@sharkj2000).  
  • Asawari (Asa) Bapat, MBBS, DPB, CPS, PGDHHM, CABP) (H), DABRM, FABRM, clinical pathologist; global biotherapies consultant, AABB Consulting Services; founder and CEO, Questar. Bapat will be posting on X (@AsawariBapat).
  • Chloe Homich, MLS(ASCP)CM, SBBCM, supervisor of an immunohematology reference laboratory; adjunct faculty at University of Delaware, Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences. Homich will be posting on X (@chloeirena), LinkedIn, and Instagram (@chloeirena).
  • Vasiliki E. Kalodimou, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CABP(H), director, flow cytometry-research and regenerative medicine department, IASO Maternity-Pediatric and Research Hospital, Athens, Greece. Kalodimou will be posting on X (@DKalodimou).
  • Shaughn Nalezinski, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, MLS(AMT), lead medical laboratory scientist, Concord Hospital Health System, Concord, N.H. Nalezinski will be posting on LinkedIn.
  • Juan Vitelio Rodríguez, MD, FASCP, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, Department of Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. Rodríguez will be posting on X (@jvrodriguez_MD).
  • Aaron D. Shmookler, MD, QIACM, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and medical director of Blood Bank, Cellular Therapies and Coagulation Laboratories, UK HealthCare, Lexington, Ky. Shmookler will be posting on X (@AShmooklerMD).
  • James Utley, PhD, CABP, MSc, MLS(ASCP), chief scientific officer at Auragens, Panama City, Panama. Utley will be posting on LinkedIn and Instagram (@Dr.James.Utley). 
  • Homayemem (Homa) Weli, MD, PhD, MSc, clinical pathology resident at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Weli will be posting on X (@Homaweli1).
  • Nalan Yurtsever, MD, assistant professor of laboratory medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. Yurtsever will be posting on X (@NalanYurtsever1).