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  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    AM23-ST-05-L - 2023 AABB RBC Transfusion Guidelines Debate: Which Restrictive Hemoglobin Threshold?
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Program Chair: Monica B. Pagano, MD – University of Washington
    Speaker: Simon J. Stanworth, FRCP FRCPath DPhil – University Oxford
    Speaker: Jeffrey L. Carson, MD (he/him/his) – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    AM23-ST-06-L - Deciphering the Clinical Clues: Updates to Protocols and Procedures for Anti-CD47 Agents in Clinical Laboratories
    Location: Davidson Ballroom B
    Speaker: Christine Lomas-Francis, MSc, FIBMS – Immunohematology and Genomics Laboratory, New York Blood Center
    Speaker: Lynsi Rahorst, MHPE, MLS(ASCP)SBB – New York Blood Center Enterprises
    Program Chair: David Sallman, MD
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    AM23-ST-11-L - Perfusion, Not Transfusion: Providing Blood Products for Organ Perfusion Before Transplantation
    Location: Grand Ballroom A2
    Program Chair: Elizabeth S. Allen, MD – University of California San Diego
    Speaker: Heidi Yeh, MD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital
    Speaker: Laura D. Stephens, MD – University of California San Diego
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    AM23-ST-20-L - The Unextinct Dinosaurs, Whole Blood in Civilian Transfusion Practice
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A2/A3
    Speaker: Amit Tayal, MD (he/him/his) – West Virginia University School of Medicine and Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
    Program Chair: Richard Gammon, MD – OneBlood
    Speaker: Richard Gammon, MD – OneBlood
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    OA2-AM23-ST-23 - Early Convalescent Plasma Treatment Reduces Inflammation After Symptomatic COVID-19
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C1/2
    Presenting Author: Xianming Zhu, MHS (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Saturday, Oct 14th
    2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    OA2-AM23-ST-24 - Expanded Use of Liquid Plasma in Non-Emergency Transfusions
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A1
    Presenting Author: Joseph P. Connor, MD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    OA1-AM23-SN-05 - Canadian Pediatric Massive Hemorrhage Protocols: A Survey of National Practice and State-of-the-art Review
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Valerie Arsenault, MD (she/her/hers) – CHU Sainte-Justine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    OA2-AM23-SN-05 - Evaluation of O RhD-Negative Blood Use and Allocation Strategies: A Comprehensive Analysis of the REDS-III Database
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Abdullah Alswied, MD, PhD – National Institutes of Health
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    AM23-SN-06-L - Expecting the Unexpected: How Global Transfusion Services and Blood Centers Can Effectively Prepare for Unexpected Information System Downtimes
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A1
    Program Chair: Amit Tayal, MD (he/him/his) – West Virginia University School of Medicine and Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
    Speaker: Sarah Harm, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Vermont Medical Center
    Speaker: Yvette Tanhehco, PhD, MD, MS, CABP (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    AM23-SN-08-L - Intrauterine Transfusions: Transfusing the Tiniest, is it the Trickiest?
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C1/2
    Speaker: Elizabeth P. Crowe, MD PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology
    Program Chair: Cassandra Josephson, MD – Department of Pathology, Division Transfusion Medicine, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida.
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    AM23-SN-12-L - Pathogen Reduced Cryoprecipitate: Early Experiences and Inventory Management Outcomes
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Program Chair: Mrigender S. Virk, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Anil Panigrahi, MD PhD – Stanford University
    Speaker: Christopher Webb, MD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    OA2-AM23-SN-18 - Do doctors dream of electric blood bankers? Publicly available artificial intelligence chatbots make transfusion decisions with accuracy and precision.
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C1/2
    Presenting Author: Aaron S. Hess, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    AM23-SN-21-L - Massive Transfusion Protocols in Pediatric Patients
    Location: Room 209
    Program Chair: Nabiha Saifee, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's
    Speaker: Trisha Wong, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
    Speaker: Amir H. Navaei, MD (he/him/his) – Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    AM23-SN-25-L - Blood Bank Guy Essentials LIVE!
    Location: Grand Ballroom A2
    Program Chair: D. Joe Chaffin, MD – Loma Linda University
    Speaker: Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH – Childrens National Hospital
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 15th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    AM23-SN-27-L - 2023 Landsteiner-Alter Award and Lectureship
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C1/2
    Moderator: Brian Gannon – Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
    Speaker: Jeffrey L. Carson, MD (he/him/his) – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Speaker: Paul Herbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC – University of Montréal
    Speaker: Nancy Heddle, MSc, FCSMLS(D), MSc, FCSMLS(D) – McMaster University
    Speaker: Ian Roberts, MD – University of London
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    AM23-MN-03-L - Hyperhemolysis Syndrome: Recognition and Current Management Strategies of a Potentially Fatal Transfusion Complication
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A1
    Program Chair: Laura D. Stephens, MD – University of California San Diego
    Speaker: Jeremy W. Jacobs, MD, MHS – Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    Speaker: Ross Fasano, MD – Emory University
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    OA2-AM23-MN-12 - Quality of Platelet Aliquots Prepared as a Contingency Measure for Inventory Shortages
    Location: Grand Ballroom A2
    Presenting Author: Kyle Forsythe, MLS(ASCP)cm – Greater Baltimore Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    OA4-AM23-MN-12 - Use of Low-Dose Platelets Does Not Increase Transfusion Requirements During Major Cardiac Surgeries
    Location: Grand Ballroom A2
    Presenting Author: Caitlin M. Raymond, MD/PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    AM23-MN-09-L - Platelet Refractoriness Management - How to Treat Refractory Patients When Nothing Else Works
    Location: Room 209
    Program Chair: Jennifer J. O'Brien, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic Florida
    Speaker: Chancey Christenson, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic Florida
    Speaker: Deanna C. Fang, MD – UCSD School of Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    AM23-MN-17-L - 2023 Hemphill-Jordan Leadership Award and Lectureship
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A1
    Speaker: Ljiljana Vasovic, M.D., MD – Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.0 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    OA1-AM23-MN-23 - Clinical outcomes in hospitalized plasma and platelet transfusion recipients prior to and following periods of blood donor SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination
    Location: Room 209
    Presenting Author: Nareg Roubinian, MD – University of California San Francisco
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    AM23-MN-26-L - ASHI/AABB Joint Session: The Problem with Platelets: How Perspectives of Various Practitioners Involved in Platelet Support of Refractory Patients Has Led to Continuing Controversies
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C1/2
    Program Chair: Sharon Adams, n/a – N/A
    Speaker: Sandhya R. Panch, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    Speaker: Patricia M. Kopko, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California San Diego
    Speaker: Harold Cliff Sullivan, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Ralph R. Vassallo, MD – Vitalant
    Program Chair: Lesley Kresie, MD – Carter BloodCare
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    AM23-MN-27-L - How to Build a Pre-Hospital Transfusion Program Between Emergency Medical Services and a Hospital-Based Transfusion Service Versus a Blood Center.
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Program Chair: Magali J. Fontaine, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Speaker: Magali J. Fontaine, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Speaker: Hillary Brown, BS, MLT – Massachusetts General Hospital Cellular Therapy Lab (CTTL)
    Speaker: Vahe Ender, FP-C, C-NPT – Boston Medflight
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    AM23-MN-28-L - Wizardry School of Antigens and Antibodies
    Location: Grand Ballroom A2
    Speaker: Rebecca Coward, MLS(ASCP)SBB – WakeMed
    Speaker: Monica Kalvelage, MTSM, MLS(ASCP)MB, SBB – LifeShare Blood Center
    Speaker: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBBcm (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Health
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    OA2-AM23-MN-36 - A Re-evaluation of Washing Practice in the Chronically Transfused: Clinical and Laboratory Impact
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Tait Huso, MD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Monday, Oct 16th
    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    OA3-AM23-MN-36 - Implementation Of 100% Pathogen-Reduced And Extension Of Shelf Life Of Platelet Concentrates In France: A Retrospective Study On Impact On Platelet Issuing
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Pascale Richard – Etablissement Français du Sang
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Tuesday, Oct 17th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    AM23-TU-02-L - Designing and Optimizing Massive Hemorrhage Protocols
    Location: Davidson Ballroom A1
    Program Chair: Kerry OBrien, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Andrew Petrosoniak, MD – University of Toronto - St. Michael's Hospital
    Speaker: Katerina Pavenski, MD – University of Toronto - St. Michael's Hospital
    Speaker: Richard L. Haspel, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Tuesday, Oct 17th
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    OA1-AM23-TU-13 - Defining the Utility and Frequency of Repeat Antibody Identification Panels in Previously Alloimmunized Patients
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Cindy Tay, MD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Tuesday, Oct 17th
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    OA3-AM23-TU-13 - Platelet Transfusion in Critical Care: A new method to analyze transfusion practice based on decision time intervals
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Kristen Ruby, DO, MPH (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Tuesday, Oct 17th
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    OA4-AM23-TU-13 - Retrospective Study of Pediatric Granulocyte Transfusions
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Yembur Ahmad, MD (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern California
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero
  • Tuesday, Oct 17th
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    OA5-AM23-TU-13 - The Effect of Machine Perfusion Versus Cold Storage on Blood Product Usage During Liver Transplantation
    Location: Davidson Ballroom C3
    Presenting Author: Jacinda Garcia, BB(ASCP) (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic
    Transfusion Service
     CE: Zero