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  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    AM25-ST-04-L - Reducing O Negative RBC Overutilization in Pediatric Transfusion Medicine:Overcoming Challenges
    Room: SDCC 33
    Program Chair: Emily Coberly, MD – American Red Cross
    Speaker: Nathan McLamb – WashU in St. Louis
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    AM25-ST-08-L - Oral Abstract Session - Pediatric Transfusion Practice
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Program Chair: Cassandra Josephson – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
    Program Chair: Kristina Prus, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    #OA3-AM25-ST-08 - Impact of Reconstituted Whole Blood Product Hematocrit on Neonatal Double Volume Exchange Transfusions for Hyperbilirubinemia
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Yembur Ahmad, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-ST-08 - Pre-Transfusion Platelet Counts and Bleeding in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth F. Stone, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-ST-08 - Reduced Platelet Transfusion Dosing Safely Limits Infant Platelet Exposure and Decreases Costs
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Christopher Thom, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    #OA1-AM25-ST-08 - Transfusion Practices in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Data from the Transfusion in Premature Infants (TIPI) Study
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    AM25-ST-26-L - Improving Recognition and Reporting of Transfusion Reactions: Data-Driven Insights and Quality Improvement Strategies
    Room: SDCC 33
    Program Chair: Christopher A. Tormey, MD – Yale School of Medicine
    Speaker: Eric Gehrie, MD – New York Blood Center Enterprises
    Speaker: Nalan Yurtsever, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  PT
    #OA1-AM25-ST-21 - Cost Comparison of In-House Antigen Typing vs Ordering from a Blood Supplier and Analysis of Routine Antigen Screening for C, c, E, and K
    Room: SDCC 30CDE
    Presenting Author: Jonathan R. Singher, MLS(ASCP)CM (he/him/his) – Trinity Health
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Saturday, Oct 25th
    1:45 PM - 2:45 PM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-ST-21 - Transfusion Safety Assessment of RBC Units Containing Unexpected Donor Alloantibody
    Room: SDCC 30CDE
    Presenting Author: Natasha Leon, MLS(ASCP)SBB (she/her/hers) – Versiti
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    AM25-SN-31-L - Oral Abstract Session - Insight into Whole Blood and Hemorrhage Management
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Program Chair: Jeremy W. Jacobs, MD, MHS – Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    Program Chair: Zhen Mei, MD – UCLA
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-SN-31 - Bringing Whole Blood into Inventory: A Look into the Data of a Level One Pediatric Trauma Center
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Allison Myers, MSN CCRN (she/her/hers) – Texas Children's Hospital
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    #OA3-AM25-SN-31 - Characterizing 2024 Pre-Hospital Blood Product Administrations in the U.S. using the National EMS Information System
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Clay Mann – National EMS Information System Technical Assistance Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    #OA1-AM25-SN-31 - Impact of Low Titer O Positive Whole Blood Implementation on Blood Component Utilization in a Level I Trauma Center
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: William S. Crews Jr., MD – Carter BloodCare
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-SN-31 - Whole Blood for Trauma in a Low-Volume Level 1 Trauma Center: A Six-Year Review of Massive Transfusion Practices and Blood Product Utilization
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Chinelo P. Onyenekwu, MD – University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    AM25-SN-03-L - “Blood Products as Pharmaceuticals: Should that be our Goal?” (Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship)
    Room: SDCC 20D
    Award Acceptance: Steven L. Spitalnik, MD – Columbia University
    Program Chair: Sandra J. Nance, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP), SBB (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology
    Award Presenter: Don Siegel, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    AM25-SN-06-L - Optimization of Postpartum Hemorrhage Management in the Academic and Community Setting
    Room: SDCC 31
    Program Chair: Kerry OBrien, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Scott Shainker, DO, MS – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: Tara Singh, MD, MHCDS (she/her/hers) – Cambridge Health Alliance
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    AM25-SN-09-L - Oral Abstract Session - Non-Infectious Hazards of Blood Transfusion
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Program Chair: Tanya Petraszko, MD – Canadian Blood Services
    Program Chair: Erin Horstman, MD – Yale Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-SN-09 - Changes in Irradiation Practices as Revealed by 2024 Survey
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth A. Godbey, MD – Mayo Clinic Florida
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-SN-09 - Contemporary Etiologies of Crossmatch Incompatible Red Blood Cell Transfusions
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: David Boamah, MHS, MD (he/him/his) – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    #OA1-AM25-SN-09 - Systematic Review of Transfusion-associated Graft-versus-host Disease (TA-GVHD): Lessons from the Era of Leukoreduction
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Albert Budhipramono – University of Texas Southwestern
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  PT
    AM25-SN-02-L - Oral Abstract Session - Infectious Diseases & Transfusion Medicine
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Program Chair: Patricia Brunker, MD, DPhil (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Program Chair: Philip Norris, MD – Vitalant Research Institute
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-SN-02 - HIV Serologic Reactivity in Long-term Treated Persons with HIV According to Timing of ART Initiation and Implications for Blood Safety
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Mars Stone, PhD – Vitalant Research Institute / UCSF
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Sunday, Oct 26th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  PT
    AM25-SN-29-L - Cold Truths: The Potential Hidden Impact of “Clinically Insignificant” Antibodies in Hypothermic Cardiac Surgery
    Room: SDCC 33
    Program Chair: Chancey L. Christenson, MD MPH FCAP – Mayo Clinic Florida
    Speaker: Justin Juskewitch, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic Rochester
    Speaker: Allan M. Klompas, MBBCh – Mayo Clinic
    Speaker: Gabor Bagameri, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-MN-04 - AABB Transfusion Medicine Subsection Committee Survey on Directed Blood Donation Practices
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Emily Coberly, MD – American Red Cross
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM  PT
    AM25-MN-09-L - Expanding Access, Ensuring Safety: Best Practices in Out-of-Hospital Transfusion
    Room: SDCC 20BC
    Speaker: Fatima Aldarweesh, MD, QIA (she/her/hers) – The University of Chicago
    Program Chair: Sandhya R. Panch, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Speaker: INIGO ROMON ALONSO, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla
    Speaker: Oreofe Odejide, MD, MPH – Dana- Farber Cancer Institute
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    12:15 PM - 1:00 PM  PT
    P-TS-1 - The Epidemiology of Pediatric Transfusion Reactions: Results from a Novel Multicenter Pediatric-Specific Donor-to-Recipient Vein-to-Vein Database
    Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall F-H, AABB Learning Theater
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth F. Stone, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    12:15 PM - 1:00 PM  PT
    P-TS-2 - Trends and Determinants of Peripartum Blood Transfusions
    Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall F-H, AABB Learning Theater
    Presenting Author: Robert A. DeSimone, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    AM25-MN-19-L - Oral Abstract Session - Application of Novel Technology in Transfusion Medicine
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Program Chair: Thomas Binns, MD – Yale University School of Medicine
    Program Chair: Alexandra Jimenez – New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    #OA1-AM25-MN-19 - TransfusaScope: Visualizing the Physiologic Response — Before, During, and After Transfusion
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Emilee Greager, MD – Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg FL
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  PT
    AM25-MN-16-L - “I Want It That Way” – Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric Transfusion Medicine
    Room: SDCC 31
    Program Chair: Jennifer Andrews, MD, MSc – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Speaker: Elizabeth M. Cappello, MD, MEHP – Emory University
    Speaker: Nadia Syed, DO MPH (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    3:45 PM - 4:45 PM  PT
    AM25-MN-24-L - Transfusing Safely and Wisely: Much Progress But Still Need to Do Better (Emily Cooley Memorial Award and Lectureship)
    Room: SDCC 33
    Award Acceptance: Michael Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPath – University of Oxford
    Award Presenter: Richard M. Kaufman, MD – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-MN-35 - A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Clinical Trial of Extended-stored Cold-stored Platelets in 100% Plasma for Cardiothoracic Surgical Bleeding: The CHASE Trial
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Moritz Stolla – Bloodworks Northwest
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Monday, Oct 27th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  PT
    AM25-MN-31-L - Safety, Standards, and Sanity: Navigating Compliance in Emergent Blood Product Release
    Room: SDCC 20D
    Program Chair: Justin Kreuter, MD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic
    Speaker: Amy Mata, MS, MLS(ASCP), SBB – Mayo Clinic
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    AM25-TU-19-L - What's New in Transfusion Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
    Room: SDCC 33
    Program Chair: Patricia Shi, MD (she/her/hers) – New York Blood Center
    Speaker: Matthew S. Karafin, MD – UNC Health Chapel Hill School of Medicine
    Speaker: Yan Zheng, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    #OA4-AM25-TU-20 - HIV Incidence and Factors Associated with Recent Infection Among Blood Donors in Brazil Following Adoption of Individual Donor Assessment
    Room: SDCC 28BCDE
    Presenting Author: Carolina Miranda – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    #OA2-AM25-TU-15 - Lack of Transfusion Independence by Day 30 After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Is Associated with Increased Non-Relapse Mortality Independent of HCT-CI in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients
    Room: SDCC 30AB
    Presenting Author: Shan Yuan, MD (she/her/hers) – City of Hope
    Transfusion Service
     CE: N/A
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    AM25-TU-10-L - Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Review Session for Trainees
    Room: SDCC 32
    Speaker: Lance A. Williams, III, n/a (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic Hospital
    Speaker: David Oh, MD, MHA – Hoxworth Blood Center/University of Cincinnati
    Program Chair: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH – NMDP
    Speaker: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH – NMDP
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    AM25-TU-12-L - Alpha-Gal Syndrome: Can Tick Bites Lead to Life-Threatening Allergic Transfusion Reactions?
    Room: SDCC 29
    Speaker: Richard M. Kaufman, MD – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
    Program Chair: Nancy M. Dunbar, MD (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
    Speaker: Nancy M. Dunbar, MD (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
    Speaker: Scott P. Commins, MD, PhD – University of North Carolina
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1.5 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • Tuesday, Oct 28th
    11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    AM25-TU-21-L - Veterinary Transfusion Medicine: An Overview of Blood Banking for Our Furry Friends
    Room: SDCC 33
    Program Chair: Elizabeth S. Allen – Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    Speaker: Marie Holowaychuk, DVM, Diplomate ACVECC (she/her/hers) – Reviving Veterinary Medicine
    Transfusion Service
     CE: 1 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)