Defining Competency to Empower Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy Quality Management Professionals in Healthcare

Blood and marrow transplant (BMT) programs worldwide frequently employ a quality management professional who is charged with securing quality and maintaining regulatory requirements. Although many BMT programs employ an individual to oversee quality management, there are no standard definitions of the education, training, and core competencies needed to successfully perform this role. The goal of this article is to propose the required qualifications and responsibilities of the BMT professional who oversees quality management and to elicit discussion to standardize such a role in BMT and cellular immunotherapy programs. Our results could serve as a model for quality managers in other complex healthcare environments. The recommendation and findings are primarily limited to cell therapy centers in North America.