Full Schedule

6:30 AM - 7:00 PM PT

REGISTRATION

Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall E

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PT

Molecular Testing Standards Committee Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Del Mar, South Tower 3rd Floor

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM PT

Speaker Ready Room

Room: SDCC 22

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PT

Coding and Reimbursement Committee Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Mission Hills, South Tower 3rd Floor

7:30 AM - 5:30 PM PT

Bookstore and AABB Central

Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall E

7:30 AM - 6:00 PM PT

Coat and Luggage Check

Room: SDCC Lobby

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM PT

CBC: Cord Blood Connect – Welcome and Opening Remarks

Room: SDCC 32

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PT

T-shirt and Packet Pickup: Run for Research and Sleep-in for Research

Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall E

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

AM25-ST-23-L - CBC: The New Frontiers of MSC´s in Regenerative Medicine

Room: SDCC 32

Program Chair: – Cleveland Cord Blood Center

Speaker: – MEDIPOST, Inc.

Speaker: – Mesoblast

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

AM25-ST-03-L - Quality Agreements in Cell Therapy: Building Successful Partnerships

Room: SDCC 30CDE

Program Chair: – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Speaker: – Hackensack University Medical Center

Speaker: – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies

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: – American Red Cross

Speaker: – WashU in St. Louis

Speaker: – IU Health

Transfusion Service

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

AM25-ST-01-L - The Peer-Review Publication Process - How to Dip Your Toe in the Author and Reviewer Waters

Room: SDCC 31

Program Chair: – American Red Cross

Speaker: – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Speaker: – Mayo Clinic

Education/Developing Curriculum

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

AM25-ST-02-L - Understanding Generative AI: A Friendly Introduction for Medical Professionals

Room: SDCC 25

Program Chair: – Ochsner Medical Center

Speaker: – Mayo Clinic Florida

Speaker: – NMDP

Information Technology and Informatics

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

AM25-ST-24-L - Oral Abstract Session - Novel RHCE Variants

Room: SDCC 30AB

Program Chair: – American Red Cross-Michigan Region

Program Chair: – Yale University School of Medicine

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

#OA3-AM25-ST-24 - Investigation of Phenotype/genotype Discrepancies Identified Novel RHCE*cE(1040C) and KEL*K(1712C) Alleles Emphasizing Need for Two Methods for Determining Donor Antigen Status

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Molecular Diagnostics and Testing

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

#OA4-AM25-ST-24 - Investigation Prompted by Antibodies to High-Incidence Rh Antigens Reveals RH Haplotypes Consisting of Three Variant Alleles, With Two RHD and One RHCE Across Three Generations in a Congolese Family

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Community Blood Center of KC

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Immunohematology (includes serology)

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

#OA2-AM25-ST-24 - Novel RHCE*ce(510C) Allele Reactive with Some Anti-D Reagents Shows Importance of Careful Selection of Reagents Used for Routine Prenatal and Pretransfusion RhD Typing

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Molecular Diagnostics and Testing

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PT

#OA1-AM25-ST-24 - Three Unique RHCE Variants Causing Negative Phenotypes

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – New York Blood Center Enterprises, Immunohematology and Genomics Laboratory

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Molecular Diagnostics and Testing

8:15 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-25-L - AABB/THOR Joint Session: Some New Looks at Old Dogma, New Studies, and New Blood Products

Room: SDCC 20A

Program Chair: – South Texas Blood & Tissue

Program Chair: – American Red Cross

Speaker: – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Speaker: – University of Minnesota

Speaker: – Meir Medical Center

Speaker: – The Geneva Foundation

Speaker: – University of Utah Health

Speaker: – University of Vermont Medical Center

Speaker: – Trauma and Transfusion Medicine Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker: – Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota

Speaker: – The Allo Hope Foundation

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT

AM25-ST-06-L - Building Trust-Based Teams: A Strategic Imperative for Leaders

Room: SDCC 25

Program Chair: – Canadian Management Centre

Leadership

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT

AM25-ST-09-L - CBC: How does Cord Blood Facilitate Tissue Repair and Regeneration?

Room: SDCC 32

Program Chair: – Duke University

Speaker: – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Speaker: – Cellenkos

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT

AM25-ST-05-L - Choose Your Own Adventure: Spooky Serology, Mysterious Molecular, and Eerie Incompatibility

Room: SDCC 30CDE

Speaker: – American Red Cross

Speaker: – New York Blood Center

Program Chair: – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells, leukocytes and platelets)

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: – Yale School of Medicine

Speaker: – New York Blood Center Enterprises

Speaker: – Yale University School of Medicine

Transfusion Service

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT

AM25-ST-07-L - Demystifying the Grant Review Process: A Mock Study Section

Room: SDCC 31

Program Chair: – University of Virginia

Program Chair: – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: – Columbia University

Speaker: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT

AM25-ST-08-L - Oral Abstract Session - Pediatric Transfusion Practice

Room: SDCC 30AB

Program Chair: – Vitalant and Johns Hopkins University

Program Chair: – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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: – Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Transfusion Service - Pediatric Transfusion Clinical Medicine

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: – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Transfusion Service - Pediatric Transfusion Clinical Medicine

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: – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Transfusion Service - Pediatric Transfusion Clinical Medicine

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: – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine

Transfusion Service - Pediatric Transfusion Clinical Medicine

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PT

AM25-ST-27-L - 15-Minute Mentoring: Focus Group Discussions with Mid- to High-Level Career Leaders in AABB

Room: SDCC 29

Program Chair: – Children's Hospital Colorado

Speaker: – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Leadership

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-13-L - Think Like a Detective: Investigating Quality Issues with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Tools

Room: SDCC 33

Speaker: – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Program Chair: – Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Speaker: – Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Speaker: – Vitalant

Quality

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-14-L - Allogeneic Transplant, Gene Therapy, or the Evolving Drug Landscape in Sickle Cell Disease: Helping Patients Choose Between Options

Room: SDCC 30CDE

Program Chair: – New York Blood Center

Speaker: – Sickle Cell Branch, NHLBI, NIH

Speaker: – Vanderbilt University

Speaker: – The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-12-L - Assessor Townhall: Assessment Readiness-Get Ready and Stay Ready

Room: SDCC 25

Program Chair: – AABB

Speaker: – MedStar Union Memorial Hospital & MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital

Speaker: – HCMC Minneapolis, MN

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Speaker: – AABB

Speaker: – University of Washington

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-10-L - CBC: Innovative Approaches in Cord Blood Transplantation: Clinical Outcomes and New Strategies

Room: SDCC 32

Program Chair: – Fred Hutch

Speaker:

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-15-L - Solve It! Scenarios in Cellular Therapy

Room: SDCC 31

Program Chair: – IASO, EUC

Speaker: – CSM

Speaker: – Hackensack University Medical Center

Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

AM25-ST-28-L - Oral Abstract Spotlight Session - Discoveries in the Science of Immunohematology

Room: SDCC 30AB

Program Chair: – Emory University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine

Program Chair: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

#OA3-AM25-ST-28 - Diversity of RH and Antibody Development Following Transfusion in the Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) Brazil Sickle Cell Disease Cohort

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – New York Blood Center

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Molecular Diagnostics and Testing

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

#OA2-AM25-ST-28 - Low Affinity RBC Autoreactive B Cells Escape Deletion in the Bone Marrow of Mice

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – University of Virginia

Cell Biology/Immunology and Biochemistry (Basic and Preclinical Research) - Red Cells

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

#OA4-AM25-ST-28 - Red Cell Antibody and Antigen Patterns in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Multi-Center Analysis

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – Brigham and Women's Hospital

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Immunohematology (includes serology)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PT

#OA1-AM25-ST-28 - Transfusion Induced Alloantigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells Cause Platelet Refractoriness in Mice.

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – University of Virginia

Cell Biology/Immunology and Biochemistry (Basic and Preclinical Research) - Platelets

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT

Selection of Abstracts Committee (SoAc) Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Balboa, South Tower 3rd Floor Floor

12:05 PM - 1:45 PM PT

Transfusion Fellowship Directors Subsection Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Mission Hills, South Tower 3rd Floor

12:10 PM - 1:45 PM PT

Technical Practices, Serology and Genomics Subsection Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Cardiff/Carlsbad, South Tower, 3rd Floor

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM PT

AABB Foundation Research Symposium & Luncheon

Room: SDCC 29

Program Chair: – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Speaker: – Bloodworks Northwest

Speaker: – University of Virginia

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT

Donor History Task Force/Regulatory Affairs Joint Meeting

Room: Marriott Marquis-Del Mar, South Tower 3rd Floor

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT

New Member and First Time Attendee Lunch

Room: SDCC 28

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-20-L - CBC: Opportunities & Challenges the Field of Cord Blood and Birthing Tissues

Room: SDCC 32

Program Chair: – Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation

Program Chair: – Duke University

Speaker: – Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation

Speaker: – Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx); Clinical Cell Processing Laboratory (CCPL); Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI); University of WA, Dep’t of Pediatrics; Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Panelist: – Pharmaceutical Industry

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-18-L - Ensuring Safe and Effective Distribution of Advanced Therapies: Unique Perspectives from Pharmacy and Cell Therapy Labs

Room: SDCC 33

Program Chair: – AABB

Speaker: – UCSD Medical Center

Speaker: – UC San Diego Health Stem Cell Processing Laboratory

Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-17-L - Novel Insights into Iron Toxicities in Hematologic Diseases and Related Pharmacological and Gene Therapy Approaches

Room: SDCC 31

Speaker: – Children's hospital of Philadelphia

Program Chair: – New York Blood Center

Speaker: – New York Blood Center

Cell Biology, Immunology and Biochemistry (basic and preclinical research)

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-16-L - The Changing Landscape of Conflict: Armed Services Blood Program Supporting the Warfighter Through Partnerships and Blood Product Innovations

Room: SDCC 25

Program Chair: – ASBP

Speaker: – Army Medical Command

Speaker: – Air Force Medical Command

Blood Center/Blood Hospital-Based Donor Center

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-21-L - Oral Abstract Session - Lessons From the Immunohematology Lab

Room: SDCC 30CDE

Program Chair: – Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin

Program Chair: – Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

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: – Trinity Health

Transfusion Service - Transfusion Service Inventory Management/Storage and Distributions

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

#OA3-AM25-ST-21 - Protein Variance Affects the Highly Immunogenic Rh Complex in the Red Cell Membrane: A Flow Cytometry Analysis

Room: SDCC 30CDE

Presenting Author: – NIH Clinical Center/Department of Transfusion Medicine

Immunohematology and Genetic Testing (red cells/leukocytes and platelets) - Immunohematology (includes serology)

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: – Versiti

Transfusion Service - Evidence Based Medical Practices

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

AM25-ST-22-L - Oral Abstract Session - New Insights to Patient Blood Management

Room: SDCC 30AB

Program Chair: – Moffitt Cancer Center

Program Chair: – Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

#OA1-AM25-ST-22 - Are Improvements in Inventory and Patient Blood Management Sufficient? An Analysis of past Performance to Target Realistic Blood Product Budgeting for the Coming Fiscal Year

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – NYC H+H/Bellevue & NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Inventories - Inventory Management

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

#OA2-AM25-ST-22 - Beyond the Operating Room: Preservation of Blood Quality and Erythrocyte Function in Postoperative Salvaged Mediastinal Blood

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Patient Blood Management

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

#OA3-AM25-ST-22 - Outcomes of Bloodless Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies Since 2000

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Patient Blood Management

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PT

#OA4-AM25-ST-22 - Systematic Obstetric Anemia Prevention Across an Integrated Health Network: Impact of Patient Blood Management Nurse Consultation on Hemoglobin Change

Room: SDCC 30AB

Presenting Author: – Geisinger

Patient Blood Management

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PT

AM25-ST-30-L - AABB Opening General Session

Room: SDCC 20BCD

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PT

Opening Reception

Room: SDCC Exhibit Hall F-H