Conference Speakers

Victor Baum MD

Lead Physician, Division of Blood Components and Devices, Office of Blood Research and Review (OBRR), CBER, FDA

Victor Baum joined OBRR as a Medical Officer in 2014, reviewing primarily modified blood products and he is currently Lead Physician in the Division of Blood Components and Devices. Prior to joining FDA Vic was the F.A. Berry Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Professor of Pediatrics, Executive-Vice Chair of Anesthesiology and Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at the University of Virginia. He has been board certified in Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care, and has authored many papers and book chapters and three editions of a book on anesthesia and genetic and dysmorphic syndromes. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe and Asia and remains on the editorial boards of several journals.

At FDA, Vic additionally sits on the Pediatric Review Committee (PeRC) and at CBER he is a member of the Pediatric Working Group and the Rare Disease Coordinating Committee.

Presented by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis