Eye and Tissue Data Committee (ETDC)

The Eye and Tissue Data Committee (ETDC) supports the collection, reporting and sharing of data by the Canadian eye and tissue banking community and provides insight into the supply of and the demand for allografts in Canada. 

Eye and Tissue Data Committee Members

TBD | Chair | 

TBD | Vice-Chair

Ivan Yan | Head Technologist, Eye Bank of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia 

Ryan Funk | Senior Tissue Specialist Southern Alberta Tissue Program  Foothills Medical Center Calgary, Alberta 

Anna Cruz | Unit Manager, Southern Alberta Organ and Tissue Program, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta

Christopher Murray | Manager, Southern Alberta Organ and Tissue Program, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta

Michael Bentley | Program Manager, Give Life Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta 

TBD | Saskatchewan 

Michelle Tomiuk | Director, Tissue Bank Manitoba, Shared Health Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Alison Halliday | Senior Technologist, Ontario Professional Firefighters’ Skin Bank, Toronto, Ontario 

 Christine Humphreys | Director, Eye Bank of Canada (Ontario Division) Toronto, Ontario 

Sasha Rice | Tissue Recovery Manager, Trillium Gift of Life/Ontario Health Authority, Toronto, Ontario 

Balram Sukhu | Manager, Mount Sinai Allograft Technologies, Toronto, Ontario 

TBD | NB Organ and Tissue Program, Horizon Health Network, Saint John, New Brunswick 

Gayatri Mamidanna | Quality Lead, Regional Tissue Bank, Halifax, Nova Scotia 

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES REPRESENTATION

Catherine Butler | Director, Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation

Peggy John | Associate Director, Program Operations, OTDT, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, British Columbia

Last updated May 2024