Community Tissue Services Wins National Award

DAYTON, OH - Community Tissue Services (CTS) is pleased to announce Diane Wilson, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Community Tissue Services, and Lesley Lang, Interim Director of Community Tissue Services – Northwest Ohio received national awards at the American Association of Tissue Banks’ (AATB) annual meeting.

The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a scientific, not-for-profit, peer group organization founded in 1976 to facilitate the provision of transplantable cells and tissues of uniform high quality in quantities sufficient to meet national needs.

Ms. Wilson is the recipient of The Kenneth W. Sell Memorial Award. This award is given annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development of tissue banking standards, the inspection and accreditation of tissue banks, and/or the education and certification of tissue banking personnel to ensure the quality, safety and availability of cells and tissue for transplantation.

Ms. Wilson has a long history of outstanding service to the AATB in a number of major roles. As the present Chair of the Standards Committee, she is directing the next major revision of AATB’ Standards for Tissue Banking. She served on the Board of Governors as Member at Large and after a several year absence, was recently elected to the Board for another term. A previous chair of the Membership Committee, Ms. Wilson has also chaired the Tissue Bank Council and co-chaired the Council of Accredited Tissue Banks (CATB), with which she has been actively involved since its inception. She also served as a member of and as the Board’s liaison to the Accreditation Committee.

In addition, Lesley Lang won two awards in the Promotional Tools Contest (PTC), Best in Category, Printed Tools and Budget Award, Printed Tools. Ms. Lang created a funeral director brochure explaining tissue donation. The purpose of the Promotional Tools Contest is to recognize outstanding promotional tools and communications programs, and to share ideas in communications with fellow AATB members.

Community Tissue Services (CTS), an independent, not-for-profit organization, is ISO 9001:2000 Registered. Community Tissue Services serves the public through recovery, processing and distribution of human tissue donations used for transplantation. Community Tissue Services is comprised of eight regional offices: Dayton, Ohio (Corporate Headquarters); Fort Worth, Texas; Fresno, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Toledo, Ohio with satellite offices in Boise, Idaho, Medford, Oregon and Connersville, Indiana.

For more information about Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services, visit www.cbccts.org or contact Amy Moeder, PR/Marketing Coordinator at 937-461-3364.

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