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Memberships and Honors

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood website is a member since 2001 of the international Health on the Net (HON) Foundation (click to verify), a not-for-profit international organization which sets ethical standards for medical and health Web sites. The HON Code of Conduct is a list of 8 ethical management principles. This site adheres to the HON code.

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation has served as a consumer advisor to the Association of Family Cord Blood Banks since its inception.

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation serves on the steering committee of the Coalition for Regenerative Stem Cell Medicine.

Since June 2007, Dr. Frances Verter serves on the Scientific/Medical Advisory Panel of the New Jersey Cord Blood Bank at Community Blood Services.

Dr. Frances Verter has also been a research consultant for Community Blood Services between June 2008 and Nov. 2009. She collaborated with the scientific staff on studies of the optimum laboratory methods for handling and processing cord blood stem cells. The work has no bearing on the marketing of their services and the consulting contract explicitly states that the lab expects no influence on their portrayal on this website.

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