BGS Big Names Date Speaker Topic 1984 Peter Issitt, South Florida Blood Service Rh blood group system 1984 Tadakazu Suyama, Green Cross Corporation, Japan Perfluorochemical plasma expander       1986 Malcolm Beck, Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City Laboratory investigations of anomalous reactions. Solid phase adherence assays 1986 George Garratty, American Red Cross Blood Services, Los Angeles Mechanisms of immune red cell destruction       1990 Frits Kothe, Red Cross Blood Bank, Rotterdam Image Analysis 1990 Lawrence Petz, University of California, Los Angeles Autologous & designated donor transfusions       1993 William Wagstaff, RTC, Sheffield EEC – One year on (product liability)       1996 Douglas Voak, East Anglian Blood Centre, Cambridge Quality control in transfusion medicine       1998 John Judd, Pathology, University of Michigan Computer cross match       2000 George Garratty, American Red Cross Blood Services, Los Angeles The DAT positive patient       2002 Alan Potter, Chief Executive, IBMS The new healthcare professions council 2002 Catherine Marino, University Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Bloodless Hospitals – A view from the USA       2004 Bill Chaffe, East Kent Hospital Trust Transfusion Practitioners       2006 Joan Jones, Hospital Transfusion Practitioner Scheme, Wales Electronic Issues 2006 W (Sonny) Dzik, Boston, USA INR values & the use of FFP       2008 Robert Fallis, Canadian Blood Services, Winnipeg, Manitoba Restructuring of Canada’s blood service       2010 Joyce Poole, IBGRL, Bristol Blood groups – Ss 2010 John Hess, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Is old blood poisonous?