The National Human Leukocyte Antigen Advisory Committee (NHLAAC) provides a forum for improving and standardizing HLA laboratory practices in support of national registries and, in general, organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Canada.
Dr. James Lan (Co-Chair) | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of British Columbia, Director, Immunology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kidney Transplant Program, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dr. Robert Liwski (Co-Chair) | Head, Division of Hematopathology, Medical Director, HLA Typing Laboratory, NSHA - QEII Health Sciences Centre Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr. Steven Paraskevas (KTAC Chair representative) | Associate Professor of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, Québec
Dr. Paul Keown | Director, HLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, VCH/PHCA - Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dr. Noureddine Berka | Clinical Director, Calgary Laboratory Services Tissue Typing Laboratory, Program Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab (HIL) Training Program, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta
Dr. Patricia M. Campbell | Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory, AHS - University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
Dr. Ahmed Mostafa | HLA Lab Director, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Lab Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Dr. Qingdong Guan | Director, HLA Laboratory Cancer Care Manitoba | Winnipeg, Manitoba
Dr. Peter Nickerson | Dean, Vice Provost (health sciences), Max Rady College of Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Dr. Christine Ribic | Division Director of Nephrology, Associate Professor of Medicine- Staff Nephrologist, Medical Director of Transplant, Histocompatibility Head Of Service/Laboratory Director -Renal Transplant, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, McMaster University, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario
Dr. Abubaker Sidahmed | HLA Lab Director, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
Dr. Jinguo Wang | Associate Director, UHN Regional HLA Lab Laboratory, UHN - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Graeme R. Quest | Hematopathologist, Director of Transfusion, Medicine and Laboratory Immunology, KHSC - Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario
Dr. Jianping Li | Director, HLA Laboratory Hematopathology & Transfusion Medicine, DNA/Tissue Typing Lab, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
Dr. Lucie Richard | HLA Director, Héma Quebec, Saint-Laurent, Québec
Dr. Claude Daniel | Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory, MUHC - Transfusion Services (Clinical Laboratories), Montreal, Quebec
Dr. Chee Long Saw | Scientific Director, HLA Laboratory, MUHC - Transfusion Services (Clinical Laboratories), Montreal, Quebec
Dr. Marie-Christine Meunier | HLA Director, Molecular Biology Laboratory / HLA, Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital, Montréal, Québec
Dr. Eric Wagner | Director, Immunology and Histocompatibility Laboratory, CHU de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec
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Catherine Butler, Director, Organ and Tissues Donation Transplantation
Fatima Dharsee, Program Manager, Listing and Allocation, OTDT
Last updated May 2024