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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, October 19, 2024
  • 6:30 AM - 7:00 PM  
    REGISTRATION
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  
    Cellular Therapy Subsections-All Group Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM  
    Corporate Partners & Foundation Office
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM  
    DEIA Community Lounge
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM  
    Prayer & Meditation Room
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM  
    VIP Corporate Partners & Foundation Lounge
  • 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM  
    Bookstore and AABB Central
  • 7:30 AM - 7:30 PM  
    Coat and Luggage Check
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    AABB Foundation Run for Research Packet Pick-up
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    The Importance of Mentors...or The Long and Winding Road (presented by LeeAnn Walker, Sally Frank Memorial Award recipient)
    Program Chair: Paul Mansfield, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross
    Award Presenter: Jayanna K. Slayten, MS MLS(ASCP) SBBCM (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Health
    Award Recipient: LeeAnn Walker, MEd, MLS(ASCP)SBB – The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    The Use of HLA-Typed Cellular Transfusions and/or Infusions for In Vivo Adsorption of Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies (DSAs) as a Desensitization Strategy for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients
    Speaker: Deanna C. Fang, MD – UC San Diego School of Medicine
    Speaker: Stefan Ciurea, MD – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
    Program Chair: Minh-Ha Tran, DO – AABB Member
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Laboratory Clinicians and Transfusion Medicine Specialist at the Center of Patient Safety
    Program Chair: Marisa Saint Martin, MD, ACC – Loyola University Medical Center
    Speaker: Kimberly Klein, MD – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    Speaker: James Kelley, MD, PhD – OneOme
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    RBC Transfusions for Patients with Hematologic Conditions: Hemoglobin Thresholds, Iron Metabolism
    Speaker: Monica B. Pagano, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Speaker: Kleber Y. Fertrin, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutch Cancer Center
    Program Chair: Katerina Pavenski, MD (she/her/hers) – Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto
    Hematology and Coagulation
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Preparing for the Data Deluge: Mitigating the Informatics Challenges of Expanded RBC Genotyping Data
    Speaker: John C. Spinosa, MD, PhD – Lantana Consulting Group
    Program Chair: Ross Fasano, MD – Emory University
    Speaker: Marianne E.M Yee, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    Information Technology and Informatics
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Oral Abstract - Infectious Diseases, Viruses
    Program Chair: Ralph R. Vassallo, MD FACP – Vitalant
    Program Chair: Tobias Cohen, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM  
    Enhance and Challenge Your Assessor Skills
     CE: 2.75 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 2.75 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM  
    Certified Advanced Biotherapies Professional (CABP) Exam Prep
    Speaker: Jennifer Chain, Dr – CSM Consulting, LLC
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 2 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 12:30 PM  
    THOR-AABB Collaborative Session: Hemostatic Resuscitation Practice for Women, Prehospital Programs, and International Implementation
    Speaker: Alyssa Ziman, MD – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Speaker: Phil Spinella, MD – University of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: Molly Sherwood – Allo Hope Foundation
    Speaker: Bryan A. Cotton, MD, MPH, FACS – Memorial Hermann Hospital
    Program Chair: Mark Yazer, MD – University of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: John B. Holcomb, MD – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Speaker: Audra Taylor – South Texas Blood &Tissue
    Speaker: Joanne Pink, MD, FRCPA, FRACP – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
    Speaker: Vanessa Agostini – IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino Genova
    Speaker: Daise Esswein Muller, MD – SAMU Aeromédico de Santa Catarina, Brasil
    Patient Blood Management
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 3.75 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Sterility Testing for Cellular Therapies: Updates and Challenges.  What should we be doing?
    Program Chair: J. Wade Atkins, MS, MLS, SBB, CQA, CABP(H) – NIH/CC/DTM
    Speaker: Elizabeth Lessey-Morillon, PhD, RAC (she/her/hers) – Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; Office of Therapeutic Products; Office of Cellular Therapy & Human Tissue CMC; U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Debate: Liberal Versus Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (AABB/ISBT Joint Session)
    Program Chair: Simon J. Stanworth, DPhil, MD – University of Oxford
    Speaker: Jeffrey L. Carson, MD (he/him/his) – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Speaker: Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP, FASA – Englewood Health
    Patient Blood Management
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Coverage and Reimbursement Policy 101 for Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies
    Program Chair: Susan N. Leppke, MPH (she/her/hers) – AABB
    Speaker: Justin Halls, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Phoenix Children's Hospital
    Speaker: Richard R. Gammon, MD – Carter BloodCare
    Public Health, Policy and Ethics
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Oral Abstract - Storage Lesion
    Program Chair: Cristina Figueroa Villalba, MD – Yale School of Medicine
    Program Chair: John R. Hess, MD, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAAS – University of Washington School of Medicine
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Sickle Cell Disease Psychosocial Support and Advocacy
    Program Chair: Yvette C. Tanhehco, MD, PhD, MS, CABP(AABB) – Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Speaker: Yvette C. Tanhehco, MD, PhD, MS, CABP(AABB) – Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Speaker: Adrienne Shapiro (she/her/hers) – Axis Advocacy
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Transfusion Support for Xenotransplantation
    Speaker: Victoria Costa, MD (she/her/hers) – NYU Langone Health
    Program Chair: Timothy Hilbert, MD PhD JD – NYU Langone Health
    Speaker: Massimo Mangiola, PhD – NYU Langone Health
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Enhancing Laboratory Competency with AI: Meeting AABB Standards for Cell Processing Facilities and Blood Banks
    Program Chair: WANXING CUI, PhD – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    Speaker: Daisy Annette, MLS (ASCP) SBB – Our Blood Institute
    Speaker: Jyotiska Biswas – ThinkTrends
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Oral Abstract - Blood Donor Issues
    Program Chair: Eric Senaldi – New York Blood Center
    Program Chair: Gwendolyn Jones – Vitalant
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    AABB RBC and Platelet International Guidelines: What is new: Liberally Restrictive and Restrictively Liberal?
    Program Chair: Claudia Cohn, MD, Phd – University of Minnesota
    Speaker: Simon J. Stanworth, DPhil, MD – University of Oxford
    Speaker: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD – ARUP Labs and Utah School of Medicine
    Speaker: Monica B. Pagano, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Oral Abstract - Immunohematology
    Program Chair: Kathy Haddaway, MLS(ASCP)CMSBBCM – Johns Hopkins Hospital
    Program Chair: Tony S. Casina, CLS(ASCP)SBB – Independent Consultant - TSC Consulting
    Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells, leukocytes and platelets)
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM  
    Cellular Therapy Accreditation Committee Business Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Pediatric Transfusion Medicine Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Directors Subsection Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  
    Leadership and Administration Subsection Meeting
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM  
    New Member/First-Time Attendee Lunch
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM  
    AABB Foundation Research Symposium
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Technical Practices, Serology, and Genomics Subsection Meeting
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Case Studies: Cyber Threats in Healthcare
    Program Chair: Mandy F. O'Leary, MD, MPH – H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
    Speaker: Martin Grable – OneBlood
    Speaker: Sarah Harm, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Vermont Medical Center
    Speaker: Zach Nelson, CISSP GSOM GCTI – Health-ISAC, Inc.
    Speaker: Susan Robinson, MBBS, MDRes, FRCP, FRCPath (she/her/hers) – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Critical Role of an Assay Lifecycle in Analytical Development for Cell and Gene Therapy Products
    Program Chair: Scott Jones, PhD (he/him/his) – BioBridge Global
    Speaker: Scott Jones, PhD (he/him/his) – BioBridge Global
    Speaker: Brent Morse, MS – Dark Horse Consulting Group
    Speaker: Emmanuel Casasola (he/him/his) – BioBridge Global
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Cryopreserved Platelets: From Bench to Bedside
    Program Chair: DENESE C. MARKS, PhD – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
    Speaker: DENESE C. MARKS, PhD – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
    Speaker: Michael Reade, MBBS MPH DPhil DMedSc (he/him/his) – University of Queensland
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Ask the Standards
    Speaker: Audra Taylor – South Texas Blood &Tissue
    Program Chair: Chris Bocquet – AABB
    Speaker: Kate Brown, PhD (she/they) – CooperSurgical, Inc.
    Quality
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Cross-Cultural Conversations: Advancing Equity Through Interprofessional Education: A Template For Organizational Change (presented by Yvette Miller, Hemphill-Jordan Leadership Award recipient)
    Award Presenter: Arthur W. Bracey, MD
    Award Recipient: Yvette M. Miller, MD, ABIHM (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Multidisciplinary Massive Transfusion Protocol Simulations: Updates and Best Practices in Simulation Science
    Program Chair: TRISHA WONG, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
    Speaker: TRISHA WONG, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
    Speaker: Michelle Brown, PhD, MS, MLS(ASCP) SBB (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Education/Developing Curriculum
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Oral Abstract - COVID
    Program Chair: Mike Busch, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Vitalant Research Institute
    Program Chair: Freddy Nguyen, MD, PhD – Fellow - MIT
    Public Health, Policy and Ethics
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Oral Abstract - Blood Safety Evaluation
    Program Chair: Philip Norris, MD – Vitalant Research Institute
    Program Chair: Emily Coberly, MD – American Red Cross
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM  
    General Session
  • 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM  
    Exhibit Hall Open and Opening Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Book Launch-Getting Started in Processing for Biotherapies