Spokesperson Biographies
Germán F. Leparc, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Florida Blood Services
As chief medical officer for Florida Blood Services (FBS), Dr. Leparc has medical oversight regarding the collection of more than 350,000 blood donations annually, which serve patients at 92 hospitals and other ambulatory healthcare facilities throughout 42 Florida, Georgia, and Alabama counties. He also is responsible for FBS laboratories, located in St. Petersburg, which provide donor blood screening services for more than 40 blood centers along the U.S. East Coast, making FBS the third largest donor testing service in the country. Dr. Leparc received his medical degree from the National University of La Plata in Argentina. He received postgraduate medical training in pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, as well as in blood banking/transfusion medicine.
He is a past president of the Florida Association of Blood Banks, and a past member of the AABB Board of Directors, and he has served on several standards and accreditation committees for the latter. He is also an associate clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Pathology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
Dr. Leparc has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers, as well as several abstracts and monographs on transfusion medicine.
