Agenda THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion Symposium

8:25– 8:30 Opening remarks/house-keeping
TBA

Session 1: Blood Components / Moderator: K Alcorn, MD
New Products, New Uses, and New Issues

8:30– 9:00 Preparation and storage of pools of platelet-rich plasma-derived platelet concentrates
Gary Moroff, PhD

9:00– 9:30 Stem Cells for Cardiac repair
Ron Waksman, MD

9:30– 10:00 When to stop using rare blood in hematopoietic cell transplant
Sandra Nance, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB

10:00– 10:30 Break

Award Lecture: Moderator / HK Klein, MD

10:30– 11:15 Transfusion support in severe AIHA
Paul M. Ness, MD

11:15– 11:30 Transfusion Medicine Clinical Case
Sumithira Vasu, MD

11:30 – 11:45 Q&A for all morning speakers

11:45– 1:00 Lunch


Session 2: Blood Donors / Moderator: D Stroncek, MD
Iron and Antibodies

1:00– 1:40 Strategies to reduce the incidence of TRALI
Richard Benjamin, MD, PhD

1:40– 2:20 Iron Deficiency in Blood Donors - I.R.O.N (Iron Replacement or Not)
Barbara J. Bryant, MD, MT(ASCP)SBB

2:20– 2:45 Break

Session 3: Transfusion Transmitted / Moderator: R Benjamin, MD Infectous Diseases

2:45– 3:30 Hepatitis 2007: What's New?
Theo Heller, MD

3:30– 4:30 Transmission of babesiosis by a blood donor
Susan F. Leitman, MD and David A. Leiby, PhD

4:30 Adjourn