Community Blood Center Leadership

Dr. Jay E. Menitove
Executive Director and Medical Director

Jay E. Menitove, M.D. is the Executive Director and Medical Director of the Community Blood Center and has served in this leadership role since 1997. He is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the  University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Clinical Professor of  Pathology at the Kansas University School of Medicine. He received  his M.D. at New York University School of Medicine and completed  internal medicine training at Baltimore City Hospitals and Johns  Hopkins Hospital. He was a hematology fellow at Case Western  Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland and completed a blood banking fellowship at the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Blood Banking.

Dr. Menitove serves on the Protocol Review Committee for the Transfusion Medicine/Hemostasis Clinical Research Network (NIH). He is the President-elect of AABB. He chaired the Blood Banks and Transfusion Services Standards Program Unit that produced the 18th and 19th editions of AABB Standards.

CBC Board of Directors

President, Mark A. Schmidtlein
Probiotic Holdings, LLC

Vice-President, 
The Honorable Betty Keim
Public Member

Vice-President, 
W. Mark Meierhoffer
Meierhoffer Business Advisors

Treasurer, Garry K. Kemp
Secretary-Business Manager
Executive Officer
Greater Kansas City Building &
Construction Trades Council,
AFL-CIO

Secretary, Robin Rollins Harrold
Senior Vice-President
Shawnee Mission
Medical Center

Bob Belt, M.D.
Kansas City Cancer Centers

R. Don Blim, M.D.
Public Member

Thomas L. Davidson
President
Davidson 2000, LLC

Jeff DeWolf
Director Organization and
Human Performance Sprint

Joe Fiorella
Chief Operating Officer
Tradebot Systems, Inc.

Art Glassman
Sloan, Eisenbarth, Glassman
McEntire & Jarboe LLC

Lisa White Hardwick
Applellate Judge
Missouri State Court House

 

James W. Lacy
President/CEO E.C.A.

Anita K. Parran
Associate State Director for
Public Affairs A.A.R.P.
Missouri State Office

Tammy Peterman*
Executive VP, COO
& Chief Nursing Officer
KU Medical Center

Joshua Sosland
Editor, Sosland Publishing

Holly M. Swyden
Public Member

Steve Wilkinson*
President and CEO
Menorah Medical Center

Pamela L. Winterman
Director of Compensation
and Employee Policy Embarq

Tammy Peterman*
Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Nursing Officer
University of Kansas Hospital

Ralph Reid
Executive Director Sprint 
Foundation Vice President, 
Corporate Social Reponsibility

Josh Sosland*
Editor Sosland Publishing

Stann Tate
Director Community Relations
AMC Entertainment

Steve Wilkinson*
President and CEO
Menorah Medical Center

*Community Blood Center Board Member

CBC 50th Anniversary Event Leadership

Karen Pletz
President and CEO
Kansas City University
of Medicine & Biosciences
Honorary Co-Chair

Bob Regnier
President and CEO
Bank of Blue Valley
Honorary Co-Chair
Steering Committee
Steering Committee Chair

The Honorable Betty Keim*
Community Leader
and Former Mayor,
Mission Hills

Dr. Terry Callaway
President
Johnson County
Community College

Katie Gerson
Past President
Missouri Junior League

 

Greg Graves
President and CEO
Burns & McDonnell

Joan J. Horan
VP Human Resources
DST Systems Inc.

Michael Kelley
Vice President
Community Relations
and Governmental Affairs
YRC Worldwide

Dan Lowe
Managing Partner
RED Development

Greg Maday
Managing Partner
GEM Holdings