Board Members

Board of Directors

CBCC is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, representative of the communities we serve. They are business leaders and medical experts, responsible for making organizational decisions to benefit patients and donors in the greater Charlotte community.

Martin Grable	President & CEO, Community Blood Center of the Carolinas
Todd Davis	Vice President Medical Affairs, Caromont Health
Claudia Douglass	Piedmont Healthcare System, Chief Operations Officer
Scott Gollinger (Chair Person)	Vice President of Clinical Services, CMC-Northeast
Robert H. Hammer III	Attorney at Law, Robert H. Hammer III, P.C.
Mike Hummer (Vice Chair Person)	Executive Director, Charlotte 49ers Athletic Foundation
Eric S. Jenkins (Treasurer)	Resident Controller, Comag Marketing Group, LLC
Scott Leighty	Senior Vice President, Carolinas Healthcare System
Ned Lipford, MD	Carolinas Medical Center Laboratory
Mark C. Patafio	Vice President, Metro Charlotte Sales Leader, Wachovia
Linda Swayne, PhD	Chair and Professor, Dept. of Marketing, UNC-Charlotte

Medical Advisory Committee

The medical advisory committee, compromised of local professionals, counsels our Board of Directors about medical concerns. The team of experts, business and medical, are entrusted as stewards of local healthcare resources, ensuring that our community gets the most value possible for its healthcare dollars.

Beth Curtis	Blood Bank Specialist, CMC-NorthEast
Lynn Crow	Chief Operations Officer, Community Blood Center of the Carolinas
Ned Lipford, MD	Carolinas Medical Center Laboratory, Medical Director CBCC
Barbara McElhiney	Manager, Transfusion Services, Carolinas Laboratory System, Carolinas Healthcare System
Beth Prichard, MD	CMC-NorthEast Department of Pathology
Rita Tate	Technical Director, Community Blood Center of the Carolinas
Rob Thomas, MD	Piedmont Medical Center
Wayne Foster	Laboratory Director, Piedmont Medical Center
Theadrea Gordon	Blood Bank Coordinator, Piedmont Medical Center
Anne Howell	Director of Training/Development, Community Blood Center of the Carolinas
Martin Grable	President & CEO, Community Blood Center of the Carolinas