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Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center

Oral Abstract - Blood Donor Issues

Saturday, October 19, 2024
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
Location: 372
CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)

    Program Chair(s)

  • ES

    Eric Senaldi

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer
    New York Blood Center
    Ft. Lee, New Jersey, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • GJ

    Gwendolyn Jones

    Vice President
    Process Design and Improvement Services
    Vitalant

    Disclosure information not submitted.

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Learning Objectives:

  • Strategies to deal with mosquito borne infections of transfusion transmitted diseases when there is no screening test
  • Developing and validating variables for machine models to predict return ferritin and hemoglobin levels in donors
  • Donor behavior and resultant hemoglobin and ferritin levels in next time donations after hemoglobin deferral and notification of low ferritin levels
  • Effects of genetic variants of low and high testosterone levels on the transfusion effectiveness and storage characteristics of donated red blood cells from these male donors

Presentations:

  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    A Non-Testing Strategy For Protecting The Blood Supply From Mosquito-Borne Infections In Florida

    Presenting Author: Rita A. Reik, MD FCAP (she/her/hers) – OneBlood

  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    External Validation of Machine Learning Models Predicting Iron Recovery After Blood Donation

    Presenting Author: W. Alton Russell, PhD (he/him/his) – McGill School of Population and Global Health

  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Ferritin Testing of Adult Donors with a Prior Low Hemoglobin (Hb) Deferral

    Presenting Author: Ralph R. Vassallo, MD FACP – Vitalant

  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Genetic Determinants of Plasma Testosterone in Male Blood Donors Impact Red Blood Cell Characteristics and Survival in Cold Storage and After Transfusion

    Presenting Author: Tamir Kanias, PhD – Vitalant Research Institute