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  • Sunday, October 20, 2024
  • 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM  
    REGISTRATION
  • 6:45 AM - 8:30 AM  
    AABB Foundation Run for Research
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  
    Coding and Reimbursement Committee Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  
    Industry Workshop presented by QuidelOrtho
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  
    Industry Workshop presented by WellSky
  • 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM  
    Transfusion Editorial Board Breakfast
  • 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 - 6:00 PM  
    Bookstore and AABB Central
  • 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM  
    Coat and Luggage Check
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Operationalizing Delivery of Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
    Speaker: Stella Chou, MD (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker: Yan Zheng, MD/PhD (she/her/hers) – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Speaker: Janet Kwiatkowski, MD, MSCE – CHOP
    Program Chair: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD – ARUP Labs and Utah School of Medicine
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    The Future of Cellular Therapy Using Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Dendritic Cells
    Program Chair: Wen Lu, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Speaker: Jacques Galipeau, MD – University of Wisconsin in Madison
    Speaker: Michael P. Gustafson, PhD – Mayo Clinic in Arizona
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    New Directions in Coagulation Management and Transfusion Practice with Viscoelastic Testing in the OR
    Speaker: Timothy C. Carll, MD (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Speaker: Katherine Forkin, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
    Program Chair: Zhen W. Mei, MD – David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles
    Patient Blood Management
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    What Does the Transfusion Service Need to do to Implement an ABO Incompatible Pediatric Heart Transplant Program?
    Program Chair: Andrea Pelock, MT(ASCP) – Advocate Christ Medical Center
    Speaker: Kristen Nelson-McMillan, MD (she/her/hers) – Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn
    Speaker: Jamie Moore, MLS (ASCP), SBB – Atrium Health
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Ensuring Blood Availability for Mass Casualty Events
    Program Chair: Nelson Hellwig, MBA – ACTS / Blood Emergency Readiness Corps
    Speaker: Belinda A. Flores, MA – South Texas Blood and Tissue
    Speaker: Amanda Hess, MBA (she/her/hers) – ImpactLife
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Blood Donor Center Staffing Analysis – Armed Services Blood Program
    Program Chair: Leslie Riggs, MS, MT (ASCP), SBB – Armed Services Blood Program
    Speaker: Mary Ann Spott, PhD, MPA, MSIS, MBA (she/her/hers) – Defense Health Agency, J-3/5/7, Armed Services Blood Program Division (ASBPD)
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    The Changing Landscape of Managing a Rare Blood Frozen Inventory
    Speaker: Sandy Wortman, MLS (ASCP) SBB – Carter Bloodcare
    Speaker: Margaret A. Keller, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
    Program Chair: Claribel Resto, MLS(ASCP) SBB – OneBlood
    Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells, leukocytes and platelets)
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 8:15 AM - 3:00 PM  
    SBB/BB Exam Review 2024
    Program Chair: Jayanna K. Slayten, MS MLS(ASCP) SBBCM (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Health
    Speaker: Kaitlyn Taylor, SBB(ASCP) – LifeShare Blood Center
    Speaker: Michelle Lodermeier, MBA, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
    Speaker: Natasha M. Leon, MLS(ASCP)SBBCM – Versiti
    Speaker: Wyenona Hicks, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Self
    Speaker: Diana L. Riddle, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)cmSBBcm – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Speaker: Sarah Burnett-Greenup, MS, MLS(ASCP)CMSBBCM – The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
    Speaker: Paul Mansfield, MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross
    Speaker: Kathy Haddaway, MLS(ASCP)CMSBBCM – Johns Hopkins Hospital
    Speaker: Traci Paige, MT(ASCP)SBBcm (she/her/hers) – The National Institutes of Health
     CE: 4.25 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 4.25 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Plenary Oral Abstract Session
    Program Chair: Melissa M. Cushing, MD (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM  
    AABB Foundation Booth
  • 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM  
    Exhibit Hall
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Curated Posters Tour: Translational Science
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Science & Innovation Theater presented by Abbott
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM  
    Book signing with Marion Reid,PhD, FIBMS, DSc(Hon), Bernard Fantus Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  
    Biotherapies Sizzling Topics Lunch
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  
    Hemovigilance Committee and Sub-Groups
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  
    IRL Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Annual Meeting Education Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Meet the Poster Author
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  
    Attendee Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    AABB Interorganizational Disaster Task Force Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Transfusion Medicine Subsection Coordinating Committee (TMSCC) Meeting
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Curated Poster Tour: Clinical Transfusion Medicine
  • 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM  
    International Meeting/Panel Discussion
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Global Transfusion Forum Meeting
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM  
    Science & Innovation Theater presented by Sanofi
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM  
    SBB Program Open House
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Houston-Area Attendees Networking Event
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM  
    Open-mic Session-Maintaining and Retaining a Qualified Cell Therapy Workforce
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    AABB Foundation Scholars on Stage
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Blood donation, Race and Transfusion Medicine: Looking Back to Move Forward
    Program Chair: Patricia Brunker, MD, DPhil (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Speaker: Richard L. Haspel, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: Yvette M. Miller, MD, ABIHM (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Why is My Blood Product Being Quarantined? Investigations that Happen Behind the Scenes
    Program Chair: Shraddha Patel Babariya, MD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
    Speaker: Saqib Alvi, MD (he/him/his) – American Red Cross- Baltimore, MD
    Speaker: Barry Siegfried, MD – American Red Cross
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Lesson's Learned Onboarding Cell and Gene Therapy Vendors and Clients in the 21st Century
    Program Chair: Kevin J. Land, MD – Vitalant
    Speaker: Melissa Marlowe, CHS, MBA – Vitalant
    Speaker: Kate Brown, PhD (she/they) – CooperSurgical, Inc.
    Speaker: Laura Staller, MHA, MLS(ASCP) – NMDP
    Speaker: Robert Marriott – Vitalant
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Point-of-care Transfusion Services With Remote, "Smart" Refrigerators Can Alleviate Laboratory Staffing Emergencies
    Program Chair: Melissa M. Cushing, MD (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Robert A. DeSimone, MD – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Stephanie Kinney, MD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Diagnostic Blood Loss: An Ignored Component of the Multidisciplinary Pillar of Patient Blood management
    Patient Blood Management
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Oral Abstract - Blood Donor Testing
    Program Chair: Jean Stanley, MBA, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CMQ/OE(ASQ)CQA – Roche Diagnostics Solutions
    Program Chair: Rim Abdallah, MD – Vitalant
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Oral Abstract - Donor Adverse Events
    Program Chair: Todd Nishimoto, MD – Blood Bank of Hawaii
    Program Chair: Sarah Vossoughi, MD, RN (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center Enterprises
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    A Quality Bootcamp for Facility Compliance and Conformance to AABB Standards and Federal Regulations
    Quality
     CE: 2.75 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 2.75 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
    Blood Bank Guy Podcast LIVE Recording with Dr. Jeff Carson
  • 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM  
    Open-mic Session-Utilization of Generative AI in Regulatory and Quality GXP Systems
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Sickle Cell Disease: Inching towards Transfusion Independence. Exploring the Journey from Chronic Transfusions to the Novel Biotherapeutics
    Speaker: Ross Fasano, MD – Emory University
    Program Chair: Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD – Emory University
    Speaker: Ruchika Goel, MD, MPH, CABP (she/her/hers) – Vitalant and Johns Hopkins University
    New Innovations, New Techniques and New Technologies
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Transfusion Thresholds in Apheresis—Evidence or Art? Current Practice and Interactive Discussion
    Program Chair: Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD – Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan
    Speaker: Jensyn Cone Sullivan, MD – Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan
    Speaker: Kyle Annen, DO, CABP, QIA (ASCP) (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology, University of Colorado-Anschutz School of Medicine
    Program Chair: Kyle Annen, DO, CABP, QIA (ASCP) (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology, University of Colorado-Anschutz School of Medicine
    Therapeutic Apheresis
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Viral Vector Systems and Cellular Therapy
    Program Chair: Patrick Conley, MS, CBSP, NREMT (he/him/his) – Merrick and Company
    Speaker: Patrick Conley, MS, CBSP, NREMT (he/him/his) – Merrick and Company
    Speaker: Anderson Reuben, PE, LEED AP – Merrick
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Ultimate Test Your Blood Bank Knowledge 2024
    Program Chair: Jayanna K. Slayten, MS MLS(ASCP) SBBCM (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Health
    Speaker: LeeAnn Walker, MEd, MLS(ASCP)SBB – The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
    Speaker: Sydney Klausing, MSTM MLS(ASCP)SBB – American Red Cross
    Education/Developing Curriculum
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Beyond Gender-Based Sexual Activity Blood Safety Rules - Outcomes and Next Steps
    Program Chair: Isra Levy, MB,BCh, MSc, FRCPC (he/him/his) – Canadian Blood Services
    Speaker: Katy Davison, MSc (she/her/hers) – Blood Safety, UK Health Security Agency London, England, United Kingdom
    Speaker: Joanne Pink, MD, FRCPA, FRACP – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
    Speaker: Mindy Goldman, MD, FRCPC (she/her/hers) – Canadian Blood Services
    Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Review Session for Trainees
    Speaker: Lance Williams, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Program Chair: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH – NMDP
    Speaker: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH – NMDP
    Speaker: David Oh, MD, MHA (he/him/his) – Hoxworth Blood Center
    Education/Developing Curriculum
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Crisis in the Rural Hospital Without Access to Blood Transfusion: Innovative Strategies to Address Global Blood Deserts and the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition
    Program Chair: LINDA S. Barnes, DrPH, MHA, RAC, CABP(H) (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: Nakul P. Raykar, MD MPH FACS (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: Asma Aliawadh, MBBS, MHM, MIPH (she/her/hers) – Langata and Kibera Sub-Counties, Kenya
    Speaker: Andrew Cap, MS, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
    Speaker: Caroline Wesonga Wangamati, MSc MA (she/her/hers) – Coalition of Blood for Africa
    Speaker: Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko, MD MPH PHD – National Blood Service Ghana
    Public Health, Policy and Ethics
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Oral Abstract - SPOTLIGHT Extended Blood Storage
    Program Chair: Angelo D'Alessandro – University of Colorado Denver
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Hospital-Based Blood Collectors Roundtable
  • 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM  
    Research and Progress Session (RAPS) - Apheresis and Stem Cell Processing for Novel Biotherapies
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM  
    Social Media Happy Hour
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM  
    AABB Volunteer Celebration: Recognize Our Volunteers & Learn How to Get Involved