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Program Schedule

Program Schedule

  • Tuesday, October 28, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    REGISTRATION
  • 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 11:15 AM  PT
    Business Development Meeting Room
  • 7:00 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    VIP Lounge for Corporate Partners and Foundation Contributors
  • 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM  PT
    Bookstore and AABB Central
  • 7:30 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    Coat and Luggage Check
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    Enhancing Perioperative Autologous Transfusion: Bridging the Gap Between Standards and Practice
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    Generations Apart and Together: Navigating Today’s Culture to Build a Sustainable Workforce for Your Transfusion Service
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    How New Red Cell Antigens Are Identified, Classified, Added to a Blood Group System. or Creating a New Blood Group System, Theory, and Practice (AABB/ISBT Joint Session)
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    The Specialization of Hospital Transfusion Committees: Pragmatic Approaches to Increasing Interest and Effectiveness
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  PT
    What's New in Transfusion Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
  • 8:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    The ICCBBA Learning Lab: The ISBT 128 Standard in Action
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  PT
    AM25-TU-20-L - Oral Abstract Session - Therapeutic and Donor Apheresis and Blood Donation Infectious Disease
    Program Chair: Ian Baine – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Therapeutic Apheresis
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    2025 Ask the FDA and CMS/CLIA
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    Alpha-Gal Syndrome: Can Tick Bites Lead to Life-Threatening Allergic Transfusion Reactions?
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    BPDR Demystified: A Practical Guide to Reporting & Preventing Errors
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    Building a Translational Arm to Your Cellular Therapy Laboratory
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    IRL Accreditation: Case Studies and Helpful Hints for Better Conformance.
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    Maximum Surgical Blood Order Schedule (MSBOS): Return on Investment, Implementation, and AI
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Review Session for Trainees
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM  PT
    AM25-TU-15-L - Oral Abstract Spotlight Session - Biotherapies & Cell Transplantation
    Program Chair: Monika Paroder, MD, PhD – Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Program Chair: Tobias Cohen, MD PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Yen-Michael Hsu, MD, PhD, MBA, CABP, QIA – Gift of Life Biologics
    Biotherapies, Cellular Therapies, and Immunotherapies
     CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1.5 CE (Non-Physician Credit)
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    The Monocyte Monolayer Assay in Transfusion Medicine: Historical Insights and Clinical Applications
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank Practice Guidelines for Von Willebrand Disease in Pregnancy
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    Veterinary Transfusion Medicine: An Overview of Blood Banking for Our Furry Friends
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM  PT
    Why, When and How Should You Use Electronic Batch Records (EBRs) in the Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Process