2017 AABB Annual Meeting
Preliminary Educational Program
Join us in San Diego, CA for the premiere event for healthcare professionals in the fields of transfusion
medicine and cellular therapies. The full educational program can be found below, which includes preconference events and workshops. Coming soon! A comprehensive, interactive online educational
program. Visit www.aabb.org/annualmeeting in late May to access the online program.
Mark Your Calendar:
Member Registration Opens
General Registration Opens
Early Registration Discount Ends
Hotel Reservation Deadline
April 26
May 15
August 9
September 5
Tracks:
The topical track for each session is denoted after the title in parenthesis.
LM
Leadership/Management
QE
Quality/Education
S
Scientific
TC
Technical/Clinical
Audience Response System (ARS):
Sessions where the faculty will utilize an Audience Response System to promote audience
participation, are denoted with (ARS) after the title.
Educational Schedule:
Select a date below to jump to that day of the program or simply scroll through the whole program,
which is organized chronologically.
Thursday, October 5 (Preconference Events)
Friday, October 6 (Preconference Events)
Saturday, October 7
Sunday, October 8
Monday, October 9
Tuesday, October 10
Notes: Program information subject to change. Check back for updates.
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Thursday, October 5 (Preconference Events)
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
New Assessor Training (QE)
Click here for description.
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
ASQ Certification Exam
Click here for description.
Noon – 5:00 pm
Registration Hours
Friday, October 6 (Preconference Events)
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Registration Hours
8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Patient Blood Management Workshop: Advances in Blood Use for Resuscitation in Trauma and
Hemorrhage: Perspectives from AABB and the THOR Network (QE)
Click here for description.
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Assessor Continuing Education Program (QE)
Click here for description.
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Hemovigilance Workshop (TC)
Click here for description.
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Cellular Therapies Networking Reception
Patient Blood Management Workshop Reception
Saturday, October 7
7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Registration Hours
7:30 am – 8:00 pm
Administrative and Scientific Abstract Poster Presentations
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Opening Session Featuring Dr. Daniel Kraft
10:30 am – Noon
25 Years of Operations and Quality: Are We Partners? (LM)
-80 Frozen Blood Products Are Safe and Effective (TC)
Biorepositories 202: Ensuring Value through Quality Practices (QE)
Expert Guidance on Dealing with Apheresis Procedures in Patients with Significant Co-Morbidities (TC)
Grow It Yourself: Planting a Pre-Operative Anemia Program at Your Institution (TC)
Hogwarts School of Antigens and Antibodies (TC)
Mass Casualty Events: Transfusion Service Perspective (TC)
Metabolomics Studies in Transfusion Medicine (S)
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Saturday, October 7 continued
10:30 am – Noon continued
Mind Your P's and Q's (and Don't Forget the I's and O's)! (QE)
Process Excellence: A Roadmap for Inventing Your Company’s Future (LM)
Processing of NK Cells for Cell Therapy (S)
Noon – 2:00 pm
Abstract Poster Luncheon (Meet the Authors)
NBF Grant Recipients' Lecture and Luncheon
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AABB/IDSA Joint Session (S)
Blood Components Produced in Vitro from Stem Cell Sources (S)
Cellular Therapy Product Development and Licensure (QE)
Drones are Delivering Blood: Why Not for You? (LM)
Is It Time to Change the Outdate for Red Cells to 35 Days? (TC)
Mechanisms Controlling B Cell Autoreactivity Against Red Cell Antigens (S)
Men Who Have Sex with Men: Is Individual Risk Assessment on the Horizon? (TC)
“Observe One, Do One, Teach One”: Is It Enough for Teaching Apheresis Medicine? (QE)
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Armed Services Blood Program (LM)
Sally Frank Memorial Award and Lectureship (TC)
Laboratory Monitoring of FDA Approved Factor Concentrates: The Pros and Cons (TC)
Pre-Hospital Blood Product Resuscitation in Patients with Life Threatening Hemorrhage (TC)
Teaching Problem Solving and Analytical Decision Making Skills (QE)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Scientific Oral Abstract Presentations
Cord Blood TNT—Thawing and Testing (TC)
Developing Sustainable Transfusion Medicine Education Programs in Developing Countries (QE)
Information Technology Professional Certificate in Blood Banking: Program Development (QE)
Teen Donors: Handle with Kid Gloves? (TC)
5:45 pm – 8:00 pm
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Sunday, October 8
6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Registration Hours
7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Administrative and Scientific Abstract Poster Presentations
7:00 am – 9:00 am
NBF Run for Research / 1-Mile Walk
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Emily Cooley Award
Tibor Greenwalt Awards
How to Evaluate IT Business Needs for Your Organization (LM)
How to Make a Cellular Immunotherapy (TC)
The Best of the Transfusion News Question of the Day (ARS) (QE)
When Cells Fall Apart—the Importance of Microparticles in Blood Products (TC)
You Can Manage but Can You Lead? (LM)
8:30 am – Noon
Chief Technologist SIG (ARS) (TC)
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Exhibit Hall Hours
10:30 am – Noon
AABB-ISCT Joint Working Group (TC)
SBB/BB Exam Review (QE)
Developing Your Own True North in a Dynamic New World (ARS) (LM)
Don't Play "Hot Potato" with TTP: A 360 Degree Approach to TTP Patient Care (ARS) (TC)
Empower Employees, Change a Culture and Realize Organizational Benefits (LM)
New Concepts in Innate Immunity: Implications for Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapies (S)
Pediatric Transfusion Practice (TC)
Personalized and Precision Medicine Converge to Meet Rare Blood Needs (TC)
Pooled Human Platelet Lysate (pHPL) for Cell Therapies Manufacturing—an Initiative from the
To Tell the Truth: Blood and HPCs—FDA Reportable or Not? (ARS) (QE)
TTD I—What EID Agents Concern Us Today - Focus on Zikv (S)
Noon – 2:00 pm
Lunch in Exhibit Hall
Apheresis Luncheon
Cellular Therapies Sizzling Topics Luncheon
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AABB/ASFA Joint Session: Pediatric Apheresis: ECP, Vascular Access and Neurological Diseases (TC)
AABB/TERMIS Joint Session (TC)
Genetic Modification of Cellular Therapies: What's in the Toolbox? (S)
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Sunday, October 8 continued
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm continued
How to Perform Non-Adversarial Blood Utilization Review, Mentor Physicians about Better
Is That Really Transfusion Related? What Is the View of Our Clinical Colleagues? (ARS) (TC)
New Concepts of the Pathophysiology, Treatment and Clinical Aspects of Transfusion Related
Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) (S)
Patient Blood Management, and Create Meaningful Physician Ongoing Professional Practice
Evaluations (OPPE) (ARS) (QE)
Precision Transfusion Medicine - Master the Bleeding Disaster! (ARS) (TC)
RBC Storage Lesion: The End of the Beginning (S)
Test Your Blood Bank Knowledge: 2017 Version (ARS) (QE)
TTD II—Pathogen Reduced Platelets: Implementation Considerations (S)
What Does It Take to be a CEO? (LM)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Scientific Oral Abstract Presentations
Cleaning, Sanitization, and Disinfection Best Practices for Cellular Therapy Laboratories (QE)
Implementation of FDA Draft Guidance for Bacterial Detection in Platelets: How to Choose the
Best Option for Your Hospital (ARS) (TC)
Stump the Hemovigilance Experts (ARS) (TC)
Rebalanced Hemostasis in Cirrhosis—Restrictive Blood Component Therapy (ARS) (TC)
Staffing to Workload (LM)
The Non-Medical Things You Do as a Medical Director: Business Academy for Medical Directors (LM)
Transgender Blood Donors: Perspectives on a Population (ARS) (TC)
Monday, October 9
6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Registration Hours
7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Administrative and Scientific Abstract Poster Presentations
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Scientific Oral Abstract Plenary Session
Availability and Safety of Blood Transfusion in Humanitarian Emergencies (LM)
Delivering the Message: Communication of Critical Values and Vital Results from Blood Bank to
Bedside (QE)
New and Reliable Hematopoietic Stem Progenitor Cells Potency Assays—The Search for the
Holy Grail (TC)
Next Generation Sequencing and Big Data in Transfusion Medicine: Interpretation,
Terminology and Application (TC)
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Monday, October 9 continued
8:30 am – 10:00 am continued
The Flipped Classroom in Transfusion Education (QE)
The Role of Transfusion Medicine in Enterprise Risk Management (LM)
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Exhibit Hall Hours
10:30 am – Noon
Auto- and Allo-Immune Mechanisms of Platelet Destruction and Their Clinical Sequelae (S)
Creating a Potent Stability Plan for Cord Blood and Other Cell Therapy Products (QE)
Hacking the RBC: Producing Designer RBCs for Novel Uses (S)
Hospital-Based Blood Donor Centers: Not Your Average Bear (TC)
Patient Blood Management in Large Tertiary Care Centers (Adult or Pediatric) Versus
Community Hospitals: From Theory to Practice (TC)
Roundtable Discussions for Molecular Immunohematology Professionals (TC)
Transfusion Related Immune Modulation: Fact or Fantasy (S)
Whole Blood Exchange for Severe, Life-Threatening Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (TC)
Will the Cost of Manufacturing be the Death of Your New Therapy? (LM)
Ask the Standards (QE)
Hemphill Jordan Award (LM)
Donor Variability, Product Quality and Transfusion Outcome (TC)
Noon – 2:00 pm
Lunch in Exhibit Hall
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step: Successes Achieved and the Trek to
Patient Blood Management Certification (QE)
Administrative and Scientific Oral Abstract Presentations
Clinical Challenges Associated with Transfusing Patients with Multiple RBC Alloantibodies: What
Can We Do for Them? Examining the Evidence from Human Studies & Animal Models (TC)
Clinical Decision Support for Patient Blood Management (TC)
Contract Manufacturing and Quality Agreements for Cell Therapy (QE)
How Pathogen Inactivation of Platelet Concentrates Impacts Patient Outcome (TC)
Solve It! Scenarios in Cellular Therapy (TC)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
AABB/NMDP Joint Session (TC)
Administrative and Scientific Oral Abstract Presentations
Blood Bank Mythbusters (TC)
Iron in Transfusion Medicine: Consequences of Too Much or Too Little (S)
Revelations and Considerations in Red Cell Exchange for Sickle Cell Disease (TC)
The Virtual Blood Bank: The Use of Simulation and Decision Analysis to Study Transfusion
Processes (QE)
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Tuesday, October 10
6:30 am – 2:00 pm
Registration Hours
7:30 am – 2:00 pm
Administrative and Scientific Abstract Poster Presentations
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Karl Landsteiner Award (S)
Best Practices—Quality Operations Cellular Therapies Subsection (QE)
Coding and Reimbursement (LM)
Métodos De Investigación Serológica y Sus Aplicaciones En Laboratorios De Referencia En
Inmunohematología (TC)
Transforming Data to Information to Action; Taking Your Patient Blood Management Program
to the Next Level (QE)
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Exhibit Hall Hours
10:30 am – Noon
Ask the FDA & CMS CLIA (QE)
Beyond Incidence and Prevalence: The Role of Epidemiology in the Evolving Field of Blood
Safety and Availability Research (S)
Effective Coordination Between an Alliance of Blood Centers and Public Health (QE)
Error Proofing Transfusion Medicine: How to Use Human Factor Analysis in Healthcare (QE)
Iron Supplementation in Blood Donors: Who, What, Why, and How? (TC)
New Insights into the Neonatal Inflammatory Response: Implications for Transfusion Medicine (S)
Same as It Ever Was: Clinical Equipoise in Graft-Versus-Host-Disease Treatments (TC)
T Follicular Helper Cell (TFH) Control of Antibody Production (S)
Noon – 2:00 pm
Boston 2018 Preview Lunch in Exhibit Hall
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Scientific Oral Abstract Presentations
AABB /ASHI Joint Symposium: ABO Glycobiology in Transplantation (TC)
Establishing and Maintaining Laboratory BFFs: Optimizing Operations and Patient Care through
Relationship Building (LM)
Increasing Safety and Access to Blood Transfusions in Low and Middle Income Countries. (QE)
Is It Time to Reconsider How Platelets Are Stored? Functional and Clinical Studies on Cold
Stored Platelets (TC)
Leveraging Operational Data to Inform Research and Policy (S)
Patient Centred Outcomes in Transfusion Medicine (TC)
The Power of Process Mapping (QE)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Closing Session
2017 AABB Annual Meeting Preliminary Program