Table of Contents
About TABB
Officers and Board
Diggs Award
Membership
Scholarships
Where to Donate Blood in Tennessee
TABB Meetings
Scenes - Spring
Meeting 2007
Scenes
Fall Meeting 2007
Spring
Meeting 2008
The 2008
Spring Meeting of the Tennessee Association of
Blood Banks (TABB)
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The Spring Meeting of the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks (TABB) will be held on: May 15th,
16th, and 17th, 2008 at the The spring meeting is the big meeting of the year for TABB. Plan to be there for the many exciting, educational events. Put this on your calendar today. Please watch this website for further information. |
Hotel Information
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Program
Highlights |
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Thursday Afternoon - May 15 |
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| 2:00 – 3:30 | Complex Case Resolution, Where Do You Go Next - Sandra Nance, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, Senior Director, IRL, American Red Cross |
| 3:30– 4:15 | Recruitment of Medical Technicians/Phlebotomists - Leslie Garrett-Stephens, DBM, Account Executive, Brentwood, Tennessee |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Wine & Cheese Reception with Exhibitors |
Friday Morning - May 16 |
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| 7:30 – 8:15 |
Board Meeting |
| 7:30 – 8:15 | Continental Breakfast with Exhbitors |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | TABB President’s Welcome |
| 8:45 – 9:30 | Acrodose Platelets: An Alternative To Increase Platelet Availability - Joseph D. Sweeney, MD, FCAP, FRCPath, Director, Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Sponsored by Pall Medical) |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Blood Conservation: The Approach at UTMCK - John Neff, MD, Professor of Pathology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville; Medical Director, Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine Service |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | FDA Inspections
- Mary Ann Touralt, Regulatory and Quality Assurance Consulting |
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Business Meeting |
| 12:00 – 1:15 | Lunch |
Friday Afternoon - May 16 |
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| 1:15 – 2:00 | AABB Udpates - J. Daniel Connor, MM, AABB President |
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Platelets, Bacterial Testing, Dosing & Storage - Richard Kaufman, MD, Medical Director, Adult Transfusion Service, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:45 – 3:30 | Study of Fainting & Drinking Water Before Donating - David Robertson, MD, Director, Clinical Research Center, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Medical Center; Director, Center for Space Physiology and Medicine; Elton Yates Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurology |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Break |
| 3:45 – 4:30 | Damage Control Hematology: Designing an Optimal Trauma Exsanguination Component Protocol - Pampee Young, MD, Director, Transfusion Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Director, The Blood Bank Middle Tennessee Valley, VA Medical Center |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Sixteen Year Old Donors - Elizabeth E. Culler, MD, Medical Director, Blood Assurance, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| 6:00 – 6:30 | Cash Bar |
| 6:30 – 8:30 | Annual Banquet & Awards Ceremony |
Saturday Morning - May 17 |
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| 7:30 – 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Grace Neitzer Memorial Lecture - Change Management, Patricia Callicoat, ARC |
| 8:45 – 9:30 | When a Duck is not a Duck - A Case Report of anti-G - Patricia K. Blocker, MT(ASCP)SBB, Medical Technologist II, Vanderbilt Transfusion Service, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Presentation on Von Willebrand Disease. Wahid T. Hanna, MD, Professor of Medicine; Chief, Hematology/Oncology Division, University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
Plan now to attend
the 2008 Fall Meeting of the TABB in Nashville on October
24th. Also, an AABB Assessors Workshop will be held the
day before the meeting. Click here
for more information. |