Table of Contents
About TABB
Officers
and Board
Diggs Award
Membership
Scholarships
Where to Donate Blood in Tennessee
TABB Meetings
Scenes
- Spring Meeting 2008
Scenes
- Fall Meeting 2008
Scenes - Spring
Meeting 2009
Fall Meeting 2009
Seen
at the TABB Spring Meeting 2009 |
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The spring meeting of the
Tennessee Association of Blood Banks (TABB) was held in Memphis. The
meeting opened on Thursday, May 7, 2009 and adjourned late Saturday
morning, May 9th. The attendance was somewhat lower than usual. There were
13 speakers and many exhibitors.
Did you miss this program? If you did, you missed a great program. However,
you are in some luck. Most of the presenters used PowerPoint, so you can
catch up on some of this information via this website. Seeing the PowerPoint
presentations on line is not a perfect substitute for seeing and hearing
the presentation live, but much information may be gleaned by viewing
the PowerPoint show.
If you have not recently viewed PowerPoint presentations on the web, we
suggest that you Click Here to review
the technique of viewing a PowerPoint presentation on the web in full slide
show mode.
Some Program Highlights
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A very timely group of presentations entitled "TRALI Reduction Strategies - a Panel Discussion" were given Thursday afternoon beginning with a PowerPoint presentation by Joe Schifano, MT(ASCP)SBB, CEO West Tennessee Blood Center, Jackson. He was followed by Deirdre Cullen, MT, CLS, Donor Room Manager, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and Richard Jones, PhD, Vice President, Technical Services, Lifeblood/Mid-South Regional Blood Center, Memphis. Are these strategies working? |
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 Click here to view his PowerPoint presentation |
 Deirdre Cullen's PowerPoint show can be seen by clicking here. |
 Dr. Richard F. Jones's PowerPoint presentation can be reviewed by clicking here. |
| The Friday program featured |
Debra L. Callahan, M.D.,
Associate Medical Medical Director, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, spoke about "Improving Transfusion Medicine Practices at
an Academic Medical Center: Development of a Hospital-Wide,
Systematic Educational Program"
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Shawn D. Keil, BA, Laboratory Scientist, Lab Lead, CaridianBCT Biotechnologies told the audience about his work with "Pathogen Reduction: Enhancing Blood Safety Using Riboflavin and UV Light." |
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Anita Curcio-Brint, MBA, MT(ASCP) spoke on her topic "Introduction to Microarray Testing with Application for Blood Banks." See her PowerPoint presentation by clicking here. |
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Dr. Brian Sorrentino is the Director of the Division of Experimental Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. His exciting topic was "Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy for Blood Disorders." See his PowerPoint presentation by clicking here. Of course, the content would be much more meaningful if you were at the meeting and heard Dr. Sorrentino deliver his presentation. |
| The title of the presentation given by Eleanor Jator, PhD, MT(ASCP) was "Recruiting Students to the Medical Technology Field." Dr. Jator is an Assistant Professor at Austin Peay State University. See her PowerPoint presentation by clicking here. |
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