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The
Tennessee Association of Blood Banks

Fall Meeting
September 25, 2009
Nashville, Tennessee
 American Red Cross Donor Center Nashville

Nashville Music City USA

The fall meeting of the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks will be held on September 25, 2009 in Nashville in the auditorium of the American Red Cross, 2201 Charlotte Avenue.

Program Agenda
7:00 - 8:00 am CDT Board Meeting
7:00 - 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15 Message from TABB president, Susan Recker, MT(ASCP)SBB, Blood Bank supervisor, St. Jude Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
8:15 - 9:15 "The Cell Therapy Industry: Issues and Opportunities"
Dr. Edward Scott, President, Key Biologics, LLC, Memphis, TN
9:15 - 9:30 Break
9:30 - 10:30 "Applications of Hepatitis B Virus Nucleic Acid Testing in Donor Screening"
Dr. Laura Cline, Manager, Clinical and Scientific Affairs - Blood Screening, Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis, IN
10:30 - 11:30 "Pandemic Flu: The State's Role in Working with Blood Centers and Hospital Blood Banks"
Marion Kainer, M.D., MPH, State of Tennessee Health Department, State of Tennessee Health Department, Nashville, TN
11:30 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 "Do You Deliver Outstanding Donor Care? The Benefits of Measuring Donor Engagement"
Joseph Sanchez, Director, Education and Training, LifeShare Blood Centers, Shreveport, LA
2:00 - 3:00 "Special Topics in Pediatric Transfusion Medicine"
Dr. Debra L. Callahan, Associate Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 "A Case of Dyspnea:TRALI or TACO?"
Wyenona Hicks & Kathy Kenwright, Assistant Professors, Dep't of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
4:15 - 4:30 Wrap Up
 
Registration Fees

Member - $35.00
Non-Member - $45.00
Full Tim Students - No charge
Includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch
                         Hotels

There are many hotels which are but a short distance from the Charlotte Avenue ARC facility. Some of the closer hotels are as follows:
CEUs
6 CEU Hours for full time attendance		 Hampton Inn Nashville-Vanderbilt
1919 West End Ave., Nashville, TN
Phone 615 329-1144.
     
  Click Here to Complete
a Registration Form		  
     
Holiday Inn Select Nashville-Vanderbilt
2613 West End Ave.
Nashville, TN  37203
Phone 615-327-4707
To obtain the special TABB rate of $104 call Scott Phillips at 615 321-8251.
Lights on Nashville

Nashville at Night		 Days Inn Nashville Vanderbilt
1800 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN  37203
615-327-0922

Marriott at Vanderbilt
2555 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone 615 321-1300

Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
2100 West End Ave.
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone 615 320-1700

Embassy Suites
1811 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone 615 3277-4963
Special rate for TABB meeting is $109. Ask for Cara Beasley and reference the TABB or Carolyn Petty with the ARC rate.

Courtyard by Marriott
1901 West End Ave.
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone 615 327-9900

 

Last updated 08/10/09
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