Tuesday April 28, 2009 -- Whittier Room:
9:00 – 9:50: “The Deadliest Ties That Bind: Malaria and the Immunohematology of the Blood Groups” 598-001-09 Level: Intermediate
Christine M. Cserti-Gazdewich, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Transfusion Medicine & Clinical Hematology, University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital, Canada
9:50 – 10:40: “The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Humoral GVHD after Solid Organ Transplantation, Manifesting as Hemolytic Passenger Lymphocyte Syndromes” 598-002-09 Level: Advanced
Christine M. Cserti-Gazdewich, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Transfusion Medicine & Clinical Hematology, University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital, Canada
10:40 – 11:00: Morning Break / Exhibits
11:00 – 11:50: “Pediatric Blood Banking” 598-003-09 Level: Basic
Steven R. Sloan, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Pediatric Transfusion Medicine
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch / Exhibits
[all afternoon lectures are in Regency I]
Tuesday April 28, 2009 -- Regency I:
9:00 – 9:50: Karen Tiegerman Memorial Lectureship
“Documents: Is There Control?” 598-004-09 Level: Basic
Marianne A Silva, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ)
Consultant, AABB Consulting Services Division
Bethesda, MD
9:50 – 10:40: “Transfusion-Transmitted Babesiosis” 598-005-09 Level: Intermediate
ARC Sponsored Lecture
Patricia T. Pisciotto, MD
Chief Medical Officer, ARC, Northeast Division
Farmington, CT
10:40 – 11:00: Morning Break / Exhibits
11:00 -11:50: “A Case-based Session on Bleeding Disorders” 598-006-09 Level: Basic
Elizabeth Van Cott, MD
Director, Coagulation Laboratory; and Medical Director, Core Laboratory
Mass. General Hospital, Boston, MA
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch / Exhibits
1:30 – 2:20: “TRALI Reduction in Rhode Island” 598-007-09 Level: Basic
Carolyn T. Young, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Vice-President, Rhode Island Blood Center
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Brown Medical School
Providence, RI
2:20 – 2:50: Afternoon Break / Exhibits
2:50 – 3:40: “Auditing your Quality Program” 598-008-09 Level: Intermediate
Marianne A. Silva, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ)
Consultant, AABB Consulting Services Division
Bethesda, MD
3:40 – 4:30: “Unrelated Marrow/Stem Cell Transplantation” 598-009-09 Level: Intermediate
Patricia Lang, MS, MT(ASCP)
Director, Marrow Donor Program, Rhode Island Blood Center
Providence, RI
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Wednesday April 29, 2009 -- Whittier Room:
9:00 – 9:50: “Cancer Vaccines from the Bench to the Bedside and Back” 598-010-09 Level: Advanced
David Avigan, MD
Hematology, Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
9:50 – 10:40: [Stem Cell Topic, TBA] 598-011-09 Level: Intermediate
Steven L. McAfee, MD
Clinical Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Mass. General Hospital, Boston, MA
10:40 – 11:00: Morning Break / Exhibits
11:00 – 11:50: “GTPs -- Four Years Later: How have we Changed our Validation, Environmental Monitoring and Quality Programs?” 598-012-09 Level: Intermediate
John D. McMannis, PhD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Cell Therapy Lab
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
12:00 – 1:30:
Lunch / Exhibits
Morten Grove-Rasmussen Award Recipient: Leslie E. Silberstein, M.D.
[all afternoon lectures are in Regency I]
Wednesday April 29, 2009, Regency I:
9:00 – 9:50: “DAT Negative Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: Fact or Fiction?” 598-013-09 Level: Intermediate
Ricky Darnell Grisson II, MD, MBA
Pathology Resident, Mass. General Hospital
Boston, MA
9:50 – 10:40: “Implementation of a Blood Management Program by a Transfusion Service” 598-014-09 Level: Intermediate
Ellen O. LaChance, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB
Transfusion Service Manager, Eastern Maine Medical Center/Affiliated Laboratory, Inc.
Bangor, ME
10:40 – 11:00: Morning Break / Exhibits
11:00 – 11:50: “Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in the Leukemias and Lymphomas” 598-015-09 Level: Intermediate
Daniela Krause, MD, PhD
Blood Bank Fellow
Mass. General Hospital
Boston, MA
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch and Awards
1:30 – 2:20: Angelyn Konugres Lectureship
“Evidence and Decision Making in Apheresis Medicine” 598-016-09 Level: Advanced
Robert Weinstein, MD
Chief, Division of Transfusion Medicine
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, MA
2:30 – 2:50: Afternoon Break / Exhibits
2:50 – 3:40: “Hereditary Hemochromatosis” 598-017-09 Level: Basic
Frederic D. Gordon, MD
Director of Hepatology, Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
Lahey Medical Center, Tufts Medical School
Burlington, MA
3:40 – 4:30: “Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Donor Selection” 598-018-09 Level: Basic
Jennifer E. Verbesey, MD
Chief Resident, General Surgery
Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA
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2009 Annual Meeting -- List of Exhibitors
The Maine Blood Center
