Our Leadership
Northeastern Pennsylvania Region
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E. Mary O’Neill, M.D. Dr. Mary O’Neill is Vice President for the American Red Cross Blood Services, Northeast Division, which includes the Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York-Penn, Northeastern Pennsylvania and Northern New England Regions. The Northeast Division collects approximately 953,000 units of whole blood and 117,500 platelet products on an annual basis, supplying blood to more than 338 hospitals. Dr. O’Neill was appointed Vice President of the Northeast Division in December of 2004; in March 2007, the Northeast Division merged with the former Empire-Keystone Division. Prior to her appointment, Dr. O’Neill served as CEO and Medical Director for the former New England Region. Dr. O’Neill has a medical degree from the University College Cork Medical School in Cork Ireland. She was a Resident in anatomical pathology at The Mallory Institute of Pathology in Boston, Massachusetts and clinical pathology, at the University Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. O’Neill served as the Registrar for the Blood Transfusion Service Board in Cork, Ireland and was a Fellow in clinical chemistry at the University Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. O’Neill is board certified in Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. She is a Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, and had served an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Hitchcock School of Medicine in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Dr. O’Neill serves on a wide range of committees, contributing to more than 23 publications, and serving as a reviewer on industry journals. |
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Maria Elena Geyer Maria Elena Geyer was named Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross, Northeastern Pennsylvania Blood Services Region in August 2012. A visionary and innovative strategist with a proven record of improving operation efficiencies, Maria Elena will lead region-wide activities, focusing on the expansion of efficient collections, continuous quality improvement and enhancing customer and donor satisfaction. She will oversee the development and execution of the operational plan, in line with regional and divisional goals, and establish active relationships with the Board, chapter executives and community leaders, ensuring that the Red Cross is successfully integrated into community activities. Over the course of her career, Maria Elena has amassed more than 22 years of experience in blood bank leadership. During her tenure as Director of Donor and Volunteer Resources at Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, Washington, she implemented programs that resulted in a dramatic increase in blood donations while operations costs decreased. She created nationally recognized inventory blood models and secured funding to launch new recruitment technology: text messaging in partnership with AT&T wireless, the first nationally. As Executive Vice President, Marketing and Community Affairs, Maria Elena increased tissue product availability by developing new educational initiatives to increase donor recoveries, resulting in tremendous growth in product distribution. She also developed a team that experienced outstanding sales growth, implemented successful community awareness campaigns and established new recognition, recruitment and retention programs for donors, resulting in greatly increased donation frequency. An accomplished author and consultant, Maria Elena has served on and chaired numerous boards and lectured at many blood banking conferences. She holds a B.A. in Biology, Pre-Med and a B.S. in Art from Jacksonville University in Florida. |
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Patricia Pisciotto, M.D. Dr. Patricia Pisciotto joined the American Red Cross - Connecticut Blood Services Region as the medical director on November 1, 2005 and was appointed chief medical officer, Northeast Division in January 2007. Prior to joining the American Red Cross she served as the clinical director of Laboratory Medicine and Blood Bank/Hematology at the University of Connecticut Health Center - John Dempsey Hospital. She held the academic title of professor and interim chair for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Dental Medicine and presently maintains the title of professor emeritus. Dr. Pisciotto received her BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. and her M.D. from Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y. She completed her training in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospital, in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and in Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She has pursued a career in transfusion medicine with special interest in pediatric transfusion therapy. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. |
