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Topics in Transfusion Medicine

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1. At the 2009 spring meeting in Memphis, TABB attendees had the great opportunity to hear Brian P. Sorrentino M.D. who works at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital give his presentation entitled "Development of Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders." Click here to see his PowerPoint presentation.
2. The panel discussion on Thursday afternoon, spring meeting 2009, was entitled, "Reduction Strategies - A Panel Discussion." What are donor centers doing to prevent the issue of units, especially platelets and plasma units, which might cause TRALI if administered to a patient. Joe Schifano, CEO, West Tennessee Blood Center began the panel discussion, followed by Deirdre Cullen, Donor Room Manager, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Click here to see Joe Schifano's short PowerPoint presentation. Click here to view Deirdre Cullen's PowerPoint presentation. Dr. Richard F. Jones, Vice-President, Technical Services, Lifeblood/Mid-South Regional Blood Center, Memphis, concluded the program. Click here to see how Lifeblood/Mid-South Regional Blood Center is handling this problem.
3. "Recruiting students to the Medical Technology Field" was the title of Eleanor Jator's PowerPoint presentation given at the 2009 spring meeting of TABB in Memphis. See her excellent presentation by clicking here.
4. Anita Curcio-Brint spoke to the attendees of the 2009 TABB Spring Meeting about her favorite topic - "Introduction to Microarray Testing with Application for Blood Banks." Is this a coming technique for blood banks? Her PowerPoint presentation can be seen by clicking here.
5. At the Fall 2008 meeting, Danny Covington, a LEAN CERTIFIED-MHI Master  presented his PowerPoint presentation entitled "A LEAN Blood Bank, 'Where Do I Start?'." Click here to see what he says about LEAN.
6. On Friday, May 16, 2008, Joseph D. Sweeney, MD, presented the topic, "Acrodose Platelets: An Alternative To Increase Platelet Availability." He compared random donor platelet pools of 5 with single donor (apheresis) platelets. His data was impressive. See his PowerPoint presentation by clicking here.
7. The second speaker on Friday morning, May 16, 2008, was John Neff, MD whose presentation was entitled "Blood Conservation: The Approach at UTMCK." See his PowerPoint show by clicking here.
8. Did you ever wonder if FDA was really here to help you? Well, Mary Ann Touralt is not employed with the FDA anymore, but she is very knowledgeable as to how to pass an FDA inspection. See her PowerPoint presentation given at the spring meeting 2008 by clicking here.
9. The Friday afternoon session included a PowerPoint presentation by Richard Kaufman, MD who is the Medical Director, Adult Transfusion Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School. the title of his presentation was Platelets, Bacterial Testing, Dosing & Storage. Click here to see it.
10. Elizabeth Culler, MD told the TABB attendees at the 2008 spring meeting that the Tennessee legislature has approved the donation of blood by 16 year olds. This is nicely explained in her PowerPoint presentation which you can see by clicking here.
11. The Grace Neitzer Memorial Lecture given on Saturday, May 17, 2008 was delivered by Patricia Callicoat. Her title was "Change Management." Have you ever had trouble changing something in your blood bank/transfusion service? See how to do it by clicking here.
12. Introduction to Basic Problem Solving was the topic of Jackie Stanley's presentation to the attendees at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the TABB in Nashville. Mrs. Stanley is the Problem Investigator, Senior Associate, Six Sigma Project Lead, American Red Cross. Read her PowerPoint presentation.
13. At the Spring Meeting 2006 of the TABB, Kelly Terry gave a nice PowerPoint presentation concerning the new continuing education (CE) requirements for medical laboratory professionals to renew or reinstate their licensure in the State of Tennessee. Click here to see it.
    
    

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