2019 AABB Annual Meeting On-Demand

2019 AABB Annual Meeting On-Demand

Topics And Speakers:

 

• • • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019
    • 08:30 AM – 05:00 PM

• New Assessor Training

• Bowie B
• Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 10:00 AM – 03:00 PM

• ASQ Certified Quality Auditor Exam

 

• Bowie C
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019
    • 07:30 AM – 03:30 PM

• AABB Board of Directors Meeting

 

• Republic
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 08:00 AM – 05:00 PM

• FR1-1 AABB-THOR Workshop on Hemorrhagic Shock Therapies

 

• Texas Ballroom D
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 08:30 AM – 04:00 PM

• FR1-2 AABB Assessor Continuing Education Program: Maintaining Positivity on the Roller Coaster of Life

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 09:30 AM – 11:30 AM

• Small Manufacturing Group (SMG) Meeting

 

• Seguin A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 12:00 PM – 04:00 PM

• AABB Interorganizational Disaster Task Force Meeting

 

• Seguin A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 12:00 PM – 05:30 PM

• FR1-3 Manufacturing Cellular Therapies: Challenges, Solutions and Creating Synergy for Success

 

• Texas Ballroom AB
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM

• Transfusion Medicine Subsection Coordinating Committee Meeting

 

• Crockett AB
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 06:00 PM – 07:30 PM

• Cellular Therapy Networking Reception (ticket required)

 

• Texas Ballroom C
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019
    • 07:00 AM – 07:50 AM

• CT Current and Emerging Topics (CT-CET) Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:00 AM

• Public Policy Strategy Committee Meeting

 

• Room 305
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:30 AM

• CoA-SBBT and SBB Program Directors Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM

• ST1-1 Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Debate on the Big Topics in Blood Use in Trauma Resuscitation

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-2 Red Blood Cell Storage: The Oxygen Paradox

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-3 Aplicación De Técnicas Especializadas En Desafíos Encontrados En El Laboratorio De Referencia En Inmunohematología – Enfoque Medico-Técnico

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-4 Paternity Testing & Human Identification: How methods developed for blood banking led to advances in criminal investigations and vice versa

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-5 How Severe Is This Donor Reaction? International Validation of a Severity Grading Tool-Putting It into Practice

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-6 Understanding Human Error for Improved Transfusion Safety

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-7 Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM):  Transforming Policies Around the Globe

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-8 Developing a Training Program for Future Cellular Therapy Professionals

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-9 Bioprinting: Translational Pathway to the Clinic (AABB/TERMIS-AM Joint Session)

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST1-10 Practical Considerations in Directing an Apheresis Service

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• ST2-11 Ask the Standards

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-12 A Practical Approach to Designing an Emergency Transport Transfusion Program

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-13 The Role of Transfusion Safety Officers: Tackling and Supporting Patient Blood Management

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-14 Practical Hemostasis in Transfusion Medicine: Applications of Point-of-Care Testing and Coagulation Assays to Difficult Bleeding Problems

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-15 Oral Abstract Session: Infectious Diseases

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-16 Oral Abstract Session: Donor Collection Issues

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-17 Clinical Applications for Adipose-Tissue Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (AABB/IFATS Joint Session)

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-18 Leadership Pearls of the Laboratory: Discovering, Engaging, and Maintaining Laboratory Leaders – Optimizing Laboratory Operation

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-19 Emerging Technologies in Continuous Cell Separation for Cellular Therapy and Sickle Cell Disease

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST2-20 Emergency Event Planning in the Transfusion Service

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 11:45 AM – 01:15 PM

• Immunohematology Reference Laboratories (IRL) Luncheon (invitation only) 

 

• Room 221A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• New Member/First-Time Attendee Luncheon (invitation only)

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST3-21 Apheresis Luncheon: Therapeutic Apheresis in Hyperviscosity Syndromes – Evidence, Practical Consideration, Limitations, and Alternatives

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST3-22 NBF Grant Recipients’ Lecture and Luncheon

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

• Clinical Hemotherapy Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Education Advisory Committee Meeting

 

• Room 305
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Global Transfusion Forum Steering Committee Meeting

 

• Room 207A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Technical Practices and Serology Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

• Standards Program Committee Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Cellular Therapies Section Coordinating Committee (CTSCC) Meeting

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Transfusion Transmitted Diseases Committee Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Pediatric Transfusion Medicine Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM

• AABB Hemovigilance Committee Meeting

 

• Room 305
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:30 PM – 02:15 PM

• Membership Committee Meeting

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:30 PM – 03:00 PM

• ST4-24 Graft Engineering for Cell-Based Therapies: Before and Beyond CAR T Cells

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-25 Evidence Based Guidelines: Toward Optimizing and Standardizing Transfusion Care

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-26 ASBP Mission Critical: How Warfighter Readiness Demands a Focus on Lifesaving Innovation and Collaboration

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-27 AABB Standards and Accreditation in Plain English

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-28 Oral Abstract Session: New Concepts in Transfusion-Mediated Immunization and Inflammation

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-29 Oral Abstract Session: Red Blood Cell Preparation and Storage

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-30 Contemporary (and Interactive) Bioethics in Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-31 Cases and Lessons Learned from Serological and Molecular Cases in Patients with Ethnic Diversity

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• ST4-32 Bringing Animal Models, Human Studies and Epidemiology Together to Understand RBC Alloimmunization

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM

• Annual Meeting General SessionKeynote Speaker: Yancey Strickler, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter

 

• Stars at Night Ballroom 2-4
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 05:30 PM – 07:00 PM

• Global Transfusion Forum Meet & Greet

 

• Exhibit Hall 2-3
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM

• Exhibit Hall Opening Reception

 

• Exhibit Hall 2-3
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2019
    • 07:00 AM – 08:00 AM

• CT subsections: Quality, Regulatory and Management (QRM) | Cord Blood | Asia Pacific Group Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• NEW! Reach Out for Research Yoga (advance registration; ticket required)

 

• Texas Ballroom D
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:15 AM

• Biolog-id Industry Workshop: From DATA to INSIGHT to IMPACT. Leveraging Data Analytics in Trasfusion Medicine.

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Cerus Corporation Industry Workshop: Are you ready for FDA’s Bacterial Contamination Guidance?

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Grifols Industry Workshop: Improving Transfusion Safety: Scalable Solutions for Routine to Molecular Blood Typing

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Immunohematology Reference Labs (IRL) Accreditation Committee Meeting

 

• Room 222
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• LightIntegra Technology Industry Workshop: Understanding the Value of Platelet Activation Status Testing to Reduce Refractory Patients and Improve Platelet Utilization While Providing Individualized Patient Care for Improved Clinical Outcomes

 

• Lone Star Ballroom A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:30 AM

• BBTS Accreditation Committee Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Donor History Task Force Meeting

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TRANSFUSION Editorial Board Meeting

 

• Room 221A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 09:00 AM

• NBF Run for Research (advance registration; ticket required)

 

• Historic Sunset Station
• – Sunset Station

• • • 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM

• NBF Wellness Breakfast (NBF Run, NBF Yoga, and Sleep-in participants only)

 

• Texas Ballroom A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM

• Hemovigilance Education and Analytics Committee Meeting

 

• Room 222
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM

• SN1-1 Trasplante De Células Progenitoras Hematopoyéticas Para El Paciente Hispano: Avances y Retos Para Encontrar Un Donador Compatible

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-2 Blood Bank Mythbusters

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-3 Under the Hood of the CAR: Progress, Practical Considerations, and Product Quality Aspects of CAR-T Cell Development

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-4 From Research to Action: Implementation of Different Strategies to Mitigate for Donor Iron Deficiency

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-5 Blood Centers and Cellular Therapy: Time to Tango

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-7 Liver Transplantation – Blood Product Utilization and Perioperative Therapies

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-8 The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA: An Overview of Regulatory Review, Research, and Policy Activities

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-9 How to Do More With Less? Enhancing Value & Quality of Care With Fewer Resources & Other Challenges for Physicians

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-10 How To Do More With Less? Enhancing Value & Quality of Care with Fewer Resources & Other Challenges for Healthcare Professionals (For Non-Physicians)

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN1-11 2019 Emily Cooley and Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Awards and Lectureships

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• SN2-11 Wizardry School of Antigens and Antibodies

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-12 Picture This: Instances and Images from Transfusion Medicine (& History!) Illustrated

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-13 An Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, and a Glimpse into the Future

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-14 New Concepts in Erythropoiesis in Health and Disease

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-15 Oral Abstract Session: Molecular and Other Testing: New Alleles, Antigens and Methods

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-16 Oral Abstract Session: Novel Information on Predictors and Outcomes in Transfusion Medicine

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-17 Chronic Work-Related Stress and Burnout: The High Cost of Ignoring Stress in the Workplace

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-18 Rompecabeza De Casos Clinicos Que No Siguen Las Caracteristicas Reportada En La Literatura

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-19 Using Umbilical Cord Blood for Spinal Cord Injury

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN2-20 Basics of HLA for Apheresis Practitioners

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

• Accreditation Program Committee Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Continuing Education Advisory Council Meeting

 

• Room 210A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Global Transfusion Forum Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Therapeutic Apheresis Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 207B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 01:45 PM

• National Blood Exchange (NBE) Lunch (invitation only)

 

• LDR Room
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• AABB Information Systems Committee Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Donor Health and Safety Committee Meeting

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Exhibit Hall Lunch Sunday

 

• Exhibit Hall 2-3
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

• Sanofi Genzyme Product & Innovation Theater: A Breakthrough in aTTP Treatment

 

• Product & Innovation Theater
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM

• SN3-21 Cellular Therapies (CT) Sizzling Topics Luncheon – Create A Spark- Discussion on Current Cellular Therapy Topics

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Abstract Authors’ Poster Presentations

 

• Exhibit Hall 2-3
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Education Program Committee Meeting

 

• Room 210A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Transfusion Medicine Subsection Coordinating Committee Business Meeting and Lunch

 

• Room 207A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:15 PM – 02:00 PM

• Terumo BCT Product & Innovation Theater: The Return of Whole Blood For Transfusion and How Institutions Are Reimplementing Its Use

 

• Product & Innovation Theater
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM

• Cellular Therapies Section Business Meeting

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-22 Antibody Mediated Disease in the Fetus and Neonate, What Transfusion Medicine Specialists and Obstetricians Need to Know

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-23 AABB Meet “AI”BB: Artificial Intelligence and Systems Biology in Transfusion Medicine

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-24 To Tell the Truth: FDA Reportable or Not?

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-25 Recent Studies from the Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (BloodNet)

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-26 Current Challenges Facing Transfusion Medicine Leadership

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-27 Mechanisms and Treatment for Hyper Hemolysis in Sickle Cell Disease

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-28 FDA Recommendations You Love to Hate: An Update on Babesia Testing and Bacterial Risk Control Strategies

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-29 Transfusion Medicine Informatics for Patient Blood Management

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN4-31 Flipped Classroom in Action: See One, Do One, Go out and Teach One!

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 02:00 PM – 05:30 PM

• SN4-30 2019 Sally Frank Memorial Award and Lectureship

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM

• Physician Leadership Roundtable (invitation only)

• Room 305
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-32 What Is Standard of Care for Transfusing Cancer Patients? Comparing Practices Among Leading Cancer Centers

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-33 Research and Progress (RAP) Session: A Whole New World: If Whole Blood is the “New” Transfusion Therapy, then How Do We Manage WB Inventories?

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-34 Research and Progress (RAP) Session: The Role of Viscoelastic Testing in Bleeding Patients: Precision Transfusion Therapy, Imprecision at its Finest, or Somewhere in Between?

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-35 Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Review Session for Trainees

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-36 Oral Abstract Session: New Innovations, New Techniques and New Technologies

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-37 Oral Abstract Session: Blood Component Innovation

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-38 Great Expectations for High-Resolution HLA Genotyping By Second- and Third-Generation Sequencing

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-39 CT Research and Progress (RAP) Session: Natural Killer Cell Generation and Novel Applications

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• SN5-40 ASTCT/AABB Joint Session on Adoptive Immunotherapy

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

• Annual Meeting Education Committee Meeting

 

• Room 207A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM

• Welcome Happy Hour hosted by PEP (invitation only)

 

• Republic
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2019
    • 07:00 AM – 08:00 AM

• Coding and Reimbursement Committee Meeting

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Spanish Language Subsection (SLS) Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:15 AM

• Bio-Rad Industry Workshop: CAP Frequently Asked Questions and Checklist Challenges: Transfusion Medicine

 

• Lone Star Ballroom D
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• Grifols Industry Workshop: Transfusion Transmission Infectious Agent Threats: Known and Unknown

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• inno-train Diagnostik Industry Workshop: Round Table Discussion with Experts: Impact of Rapid Red Cell Genotyping in Patient Care

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Perioperative Accreditation Committee Meeting

 

• Room 210A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Verax Biomedical Industry Workshop: Mitigating the Risk of Bacterial Contamination of Platelets – Recent Developments

 

• Lone Star Ballroom A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• WellSky Industry Workshop: Novel Cellular Therapies Derived from Cord Blood Monocytes

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:30 AM

• Publications Committee Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 09:00 AM

• Regulatory Affairs Committee Meeting

 

• Room 222
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM

• NBF Strategy Input Session

 

• Room 205
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM

• AABB Donor Hemovigilance Working Group

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM

• MN1-1 Evidence Based Approach to Newer Coagulation Products:  Andexanet (anti-Xa agent reversal), Fibrinogen Concentrate & Freeze Dried Plasma

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-2 Can Platelet Availability and Safety be Improved By Using Paid Donors and Pathogen Reduction Technologies?

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-3 Recent Advances on the Role of Complement in Adaptive Immunity

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-4 What’s New with Reimbursement and Coding for Blood Products, Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies?

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-5 The “Coopetition” Advantage: The Case for Cooperation between Competing Companies

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-6 Navigating the Challenges of Monoclonal Antibodies and Transfusion Therapy

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-7 You Too Can be a Superhero: Internal Audits to the Rescue!

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-8 Solve It! Scenarios in Cellular Therapy

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN1-9 Evidence-Based Apheresis Treatment Guidelines and ASFA “Choosing Wisely” Best Practice Recommendations

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 08:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• MN1-10 BB/SBB Exam Review: 2019

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• NBF CORD Summit (Council on Research and Development) – “Learning from the Past to Shape the Future – Adapting the Industry to Advancements in Science and Technology”  

 

• Room 221A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• MN2-11 Ask the FDA and CMS

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-12 Improving Patient Outcomes through Implementation of a Preoperative Anemia Program:  A How-to Guide

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-13 The ‘Un’Usual Suspects: Out of the Ordinary Transfusion Reactions

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-14 Gene Editing Technologies and Their Practical Applications for Cellular Therapies

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-15 Oral Abstract Session: Transfusion Medicine: Surveying Practices and Trends

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-16 Technical Challenges in Pediatric Apheresis: Priming, Anticoagulation and Electrolyte Replacement

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-17 From Transfusions to Thrombosis: Is There a Link?

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-18 Hemostasis on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Therapy

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-19 2019 Hemphill-Jordan Leadership Award and Lectureship

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN2-20 Information Technology Validation and Beyond

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

• Audit & Ethics Committee Meeting

 

• Room 222
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Donor & Blood Component Management Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Leadership & Administrative Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Patient Blood Management & Transfusion Safety Officer Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 207B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Circular of Information Task Force Meeting

 

• Room 218
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee (CTMC) Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Exhibit Hall Lunch Monday

 

• Exhibit Hall 2-3
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Molecular Testing Standards Committee Meeting

 

• Room 209
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Selection of Abstracts Committee Meeting

 

• Room 207A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

• bioMeriéux, Inc. Product & Innovation Theater: Delayed-Sampling Large-Volume Culture of Platelets: Experience of One Blood Establishment

 

• Product & Innovation Theater
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Member Mingle hosted by PEP (member only event)

 

• Broken Crust Café
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Quality & Regulatory Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Directors Subsection Meeting

 

• Room 206B
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM

• NBF Board of Trustees Meeting

 

• Room 210A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM

• MN3-21 Prothrombin Complex, Fibrinogen,and FXIII Concentrate Use in Non-Hemophilia Patients: What’s Happening Around the World?

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-22 Red Cell Exchanges for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: Automated RBC Exchange, Depletion-Exchange and Plasma-to-Red Cell Exchange

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-23 So You Think You’ve Found a New Allele

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-24 Test Your Blood Bank Knowledge 2019:  Blood Bank Game of Games

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-25 Oral Abstract Session: Transfusion Outcomes & Patient Safety

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-26 Proficiency Testing: The Who, What, When, and Why

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-27 Revolutionizing Cellular Therapy (AABB/NMDP Joint Session)

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-29 Gender Identification Challenges and Blood Donation: Education, Regulation and Experience

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-30 Burned out in Transfusion Medicine: How to Keep Cool and Carry on?

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• MN3-31 Current Update on Next Generation Blood Products for Treatment of Mass Casualty, Military or Pre-hospital Trauma Resuscitation

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM

• NBFRET Board of Trustees Meeting

 

• Room 210A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM

• MN4-32 Plenary Oral Abstract Session

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 06:00 PM – 07:30 PM

• NBF Reception (invitation only; ticket required)

 

• Texas Ballroom A
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM

• Immucor Corporate Satellite Symposium: Seeing Beyond Limits: Autoverification & Automation

 

• Lone Star Ballroom BC
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • 07:30 PM – 09:30 PM

• President’s Reception (invitation only)

 

• Texas Ballroom DE
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio

• • • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2019
    • 07:00 AM – 08:00 AM

• Cellular Therapies Education Committee (CTEC) Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 07:00 AM – 08:30 AM

• TU1-1 PBM Certification and Standards Clarification: The Journey from Good to Great

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-2 Will Rare Blood be There When Needed? Meeting Exquisitely Rare Blood Requests, One Patient at a Time,American Rare Donor Program and Collaborators

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-3 Document and Change Control: It’s Not Easy, but Everybody’s Gotta Do It!

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-4 HLA Epitope Matching: Towards Precision Medicine in Transfusion and Transplantation

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-5 How Human Factors Engineering Can Save Your Lab

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-6 How Do We Improve Our Vigilance for Malaria While Retaining Donors?

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-7 Principles and Troubleshooting of Apheresis: Understanding How It All Works with As Little Math As Possible

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-8 Leading at the Speed of Trust – Using the 13 Behaviors to Develop, Restore, and Extend Smart Trust in Your Key Relationships and Your Organization

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-9 New Concepts on the Role of Monocytes in Health and Disease

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU1-10 From Transmutation to Rejuvenation: Transfusion in Popular Culture

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM

• TU2-11 Back to the Future: Setting up and Managing a Whole Blood Transfusion Program

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-12 Challenges of Terminology and Bioinformatics for Blood Group Systems (AABB/ISBT Joint Session)

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-13 Update Your Critical Appraisal Skills: Apply a Critical Approach to Appraising the Medical Literature to Massive Hemorrhage Studies

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-14 Is a Physicians’ Group and Outpatient Clinic a Good Fit for Your Blood Center?

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-15 Oral Abstract Session: Advances in Cellular Therapies

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-16 Oral Abstract Session: Emerging Trends in Transfusion Practice

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-18 Challenges and Opportunities for Developing and Implementing Global Transfusion Standards

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-19 Beyond Conventional: Controversial Uses of Blood Components

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU2-20 Quality Risk Assessment in Cellular Therapy Laboratory

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• TU2-17 2019 Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and Lectureship

 

• Room 214AB
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

• TU3-21 Mentorship: How to Cultivate Talent and Promote from Within Your Organization

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom I
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-22 In Search of the Golden Donors: Finding Special Donors for Special Blood Products

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom II
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-23 Positives, Pitfalls and Perfections in the Selection, Implementation and Validation of New Automation for the Blood Bank

 

• Hemisfair Ballroom III
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-24 New Paradigms in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)

 

• Room 221BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-25 Oral Abstract Session: Platelets and Pathogen Inactivation

 

• Room 301
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-26 Oral Abstract Session: Molecular Genotyping: RH

 

• Room 302
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-27 Cellular Therapy Product Manufacturing and Testing – Current Techniques

 

• Room 303
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-28 Transfusion Transmitted Parasitic Infections and Hemolytic Complications

 

• Room 304
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-29 Ladies and Gentlemen, Here’s the Top 10 Lists… of AABB, CAP and Joint Commission Citations and Nonconformities

 

• Room 217A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• TU3-30 A Culture of Safety: “How Can I Advocate Patient Safety If I Myself Don’t Feel Safe?” – the Question That Sounds Rhetorical but Really Isn’t

 

• Room 217BCD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Global Standards Committee Meeting

 

• Room 225A
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 12:45 PM – 02:15 PM

• AABB Annual Business Meeting and Lunch (member only event)

 

• Room 214CD
• – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

• • • 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM

• Post-Meeting Board Meeting & New Board Member Orientation

 

• Republic
• – Grand Hyatt San Antonio