News Release July 17, 2007

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Julie Scott

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Bonfils Blood Center

BonfilsBlood CenterAnnounces Staff Additions

New Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs and Transfusion Medicine Fellow join blood center staff

DENVER(July 17, 2007) – Mark Allen recently joined Bonfils Blood Center as

vice president of quality assurance and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Bonfils, Allen was the director of quality assurance and regulatory affairs for NetRegulus, Inc. in Denver where he was responsible for developing quality, regulatory and clinical software applications for the life sciences. Allen has also worked as a regulatory/quality consultant for many top medical device firms in addition to operating his own medical device company. 

Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Metropolitan State College in Denver. An active member of both the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society and the American Society for Quality, Allen possesses a regulatory affairs certification and a quality manager certification from each organization respectively.

Bonfils selected its new Transfusion Medicine Fellow Roberto Gianani, MD, a native of Rome, last month. During his one-year fellowship with Bonfils, Dr. Gianani will receive hands-on practical and clinical laboratory training in the areas of transfusion medicine and blood banking which will include rotations both in the blood center and at four of Bonfils' partner hospitals in the Denver Metro area.

After earning his degree in medicine in 1989 and subsequent specialization in endocrinology and metabolic diseases in 1994 from the University of Rome School of Medicine, Dr. Gianani came to Denver where he completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) followed by a two-year fellowship in pediatric pathology at The Children's Hospital, Denver.  He was also named research fellow, and later, assistant professor in the department of pathology and a faculty member of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, an affiliate of the UCDHSC. Dr. Gianani's interests include storage of blood cells and tissue for transplantation.  

Bonfils Blood Center supplies blood to more than 200 healthcare facilities and needs to collect 4,350 blood donations weekly to meet the needs of the community and to be prepared for any unexpected events. For information about Bonfils Blood Center please call 303.341.4000 or visit www.bonfils.org.