ASTCT Public Service Award
The Public Service Award, presented at each year's Annual Meeting, recognizes an individual who has advanced the interests of the BMT and cellular therapy field or has given special service to the patients and families that we serve. The honoree receives a plaque, along with expenses to attend the Annual Meeting. View past recipients.
2025 Recipients: Mary E. Flowers, MD and Marcos de Lima, MD
About Dr. Mary E. Flowers
Dr. Flowers is a Professor Emerita of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and a Professor Emerita of Medical Oncology of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
After immigrating to Seattle in 1987 from Brazil, where she pioneered and established a public national hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) clinical and research program in Rio de Janeiro, she developed her academic career in United States focused in chronic GVHD and other late HCT complications, with more than 300 publications in this field. She also established a world class survivorship posttransplant long-term follow up clinical service at the Fred Hutchinson that has served as a model for training hundreds of HCT physicians and other multidisciplinary professionals from all continents, a major contribution to the survivorship field of transplantation.
Dr. Flowers has served on several national and international committees including Co-Chair of GVHD and Late Effects CIBMTR working groups, NIH Committee Consensus Development Project for Clinical Trials in Chronic GVHD, BMT CTN GVHD steering committee, Co-Chair of the 2020 Scientific Organizing Committee of the ASBMT and CIBMTR TCT meeting, co-founder and chair of International Affairs Committee of the American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT), founder and Co-Chair of the Brazilian Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation Research Working Committee on GVHD and Other Transplant Outcomes (SBTMO-GEDECO) among others.
Dr. Flowers is the recipient of many awards including, the ASTCT Survivorship SIG Lifetime Award, Fellow of the ASTCT, a Lifetime Award by the SBTMO for her pioneering and contribution to advance HCT in Brazil, an Emerita Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine at the University Federal of Ceará, Brazil, among others. Her passion and commitment to offer the best long-term care after HCT has inspired hundreds of trainees and benefited thousands of patients worldwide.