NAAC Board Members
President
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Vice President/President Elect
William B. Ershler, MD
Immediate Past President
Richard K. Spence, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Sherri Ozawa, RN
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Ileana Piña, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Sherri Ozawa, RN
NAAC At-Large Member
Clinical Director, The Institute for
Patient Blood Management
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Specialty: Critical Care Nursing
Sherri Ozawa, RN, has been dedicated to the field of patient blood management for the last thirteen years. She has been the Clinical Director of Englewood’s Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine and Surgery since its inception in 1995. She has been instrumental at implementing hospital wide efforts at the detection and prevention of anemia, as well as creating an organized approach to anemia management in all hospitalized patients. Her background in critical care nursing enabled her to help create one of the largest multidisciplinary blood management programs in the world. She has lectured throughout the United States and internationally, with a particular focus on the nursing aspects of anemia and patient blood management. She has published numerous articles on the subject, and continues to be actively involved in research in the field.
Last Updated: January 26, 2009
