NK Resident Tapped To Lead Blood Center

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI - From Rhode Island Blood Center: Scott J. Asadorian was recently named Executive Director of the Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC).

Asadorian began his career with RIBC’s former parent organization Vector Health Systems in 1991, serving as Strategist and Risk Manager before joining RIBC in 1995 as Vice President and COO. His role since has focused on strategic planning for the organization, including all aspects of blood center operations and local and regional hospital-customer business development. Additionally, he led the donor and blood drive sponsor recruitment aspects of RIBC that helped ensure its mission of providing a safe, plentiful and cost-effective blood supply to patients in the local and regional hospitals.

Asadorian, a native of Warwick and current resident of North Kingstown, has served as a Board member for America's Blood Centers, a national network of independent community non-profit blood centers. He holds a BA in Management and an MBA, both from the University of Rhode Island.

Asadorian, succeeds Lawrence Smith, who joined the RIBC/Vector Health Systems in 1989 and served as the Chief Executive Officer of the center for the past 29 years. Smith is taking on a new role serving in the Office of the President of the New York Blood Center Enterprise, which the Rhode Island Blood Center joined forces with this past summer. The partnership created the largest state-of-the-art infectious disease testing laboratory in the Northeastern United States bringing new jobs to RIBC’s Providence based headquarters.

Smith said, “It’s been a privilege leading the blood center for 29 years, and I’m looking forward to my new role developing growth opportunities for all blood center members of the New York Blood Center system, including the Rhode Island Blood Center. “I also have every confidence that RIBC will continue to fulfill its life-saving mission under Scott’s experienced and capable leadership.”

About Rhode Island Blood Center

The Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC) was founded in 1979 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit community blood center. For over 35 years, RIBC has been the primary supplier of blood and blood products to patients being cared for in hospitals throughout Rhode Island and in neighboring states. Our mission is to help save lives by ensuring a safe, plentiful and cost-effective blood supply. RIBC is part of the National Marrow Donor Program and collects stem cells for transplant at its Providence location. RIBC provides therapeutic treatments for patients in local hospitals. Its state-of-the-art blood safety testing laboratory is the largest of its kind in the Northeast and conducts human leukocyte antigen (HLA) histocompatibility and red cell typing, immunogenics, as well as DNA and relationship testing. RIBC is also involved in a variety of local and national research programs in an effort to improve all aspects of the blood supply. RIBC is part of the New York Blood Center Enterprise.

Photo courtesy of Rhode Island Blood Center