Penny is a Registered Nurse and NSW Blood Watch Program Lead. Penny has worked in blood management, patient safety and clinical governance since 2006, with a Master of Master of Quality Services (Health and Safety). Penny's current role focuses on improving patient safety outcomes in transfusion and hospital accreditation.

Rachel Githiomi is Principal Medical Laboratory Technologist/Scientist. She works with the MoH Kenya department of Policy and Research. She has completed her doctorate course in red cell varaints genotyping at MKU and awaits the awarding of this degree. She has over thirty five years of expreience in laboratory medicine

Suelyn is a University of Melbourne PhD student from the Haematology Research Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Insitute. During her PhD, she aims to identify predictors for babies more likely to bleed post-cardiopulmonary bypass and understand the underlying mechanisms to provide evidence for the use of new targeted therapies.

Dr Genghis Lopez is a Senior Scientist at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Brisbane. He received his PhD degree from Griffith University and has published several papers reporting novel red cell antigens and red cell antibodies associated with haemolytic transfusion reactions or haemolytic disease of the fetus and the newborn.

Dr Marsali Maclean is a haematology fellow working at the Cancer Clinical Trials Centre at Austin Health, predominantly in myeloma, myelodysplasia and leukaemia trials. She has a keen interest in transfusion medicine and improving outcomes for patients with the best evidence-based transfusion practice.