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Evening (TBC) | Bursary Celebration |
20:30 - 23:00 | Curry and Quiz Night - Matt Hazell and Martin Maley |
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8:00 - 9:15 | Conference Registration |
8:30 - 9:10 | Early Careers Group Meeting - Jamie Nash |
9:15 - 9:30 | Conference Opening from BBTS President Prof Dave Roberts |
Simultaneous Sessions | |
9:30 - 11:00 | Red Cell SIG Part 1: Red cell membrane in health and disease Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew Musings on the Role of VPS13A Expression in Red Cells - Lesley Bruce Understanding Erythrocyte Invasion Using Zoonotic Malaria Parasites - Robert Moon Dysfunction in Protein and Lipid Quality Control Mechanisms is a Hallmark of Red Cell Aging - Pascal Amireault |
Blood Bank Technology SIG Chairs: Ben Holmes RCI Assist - Helen Thom HLA matched red cells for Renal Patients - Kirti Mepani & Tracy Hui Establishing the outcomes of transfusions in Scotland: now and looking to the future - Katie Hands | |
Cellular Therapies SIG Chair: Gillian McGaffin Current status of CAR T therapies in myeloma - still an unmet clinical need in the UK? - Dr Jonny Carmichael Initial experience of Casgevy - Farhan Ali Anjum "In-house" CAR T therapies - is it the way forward for the NHS, and how can we make it happen - Sarah Albon | |
Transfusion Practitioner SIG Karen Mead & Pedro Valle Vallines Transfusion Practitioner SIG Award Winner – Wendy McSporran Exercise Euclid- Improving major incident transfusion response in the absence of a major incident - Sarah Beuschel A TP led collaborative project from the SW RTC -Karen Mead | |
11:00 -11:30 | Break |
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11:30 - 13:00 | Red Cell SIG Part 2: Mechanical properties of red cells Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew RBC Mechanical Properties and Microhemodynamics - Stavroula Balabani Mechanical Properties of Red Cells: Molecular Regulations, Novel Clinical Implications and Diagnostic Tools - Lars Kaestner Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and density separation: contribution of haemophysics to improving applications - Alexis Darras |
Paediatric SIG Chair: Anne Kelly Transfusion Associated Harm in Neonates - Professor Chris Gale The ABC’s of Neonatal and Paediatric Transfusion - a Laboratory Focus - Carol Cantwell Transfusion in Sickle Cell Disease: When a life-saving intervention becomes life threatening - Dr Nick Fordham | |
Microbiology SIG Chair: Shannah Secret Investigations into West Nile Virus False Reactives - Victoria Maddox Implementation of B19/HAV screening - Kate Tettmar We don’t look back in anger: a rough guide to transfusion transmitted infections and lookback - Su Brailsford | |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break Haemonetics Sponsored Lunch Symposium - BloodTrack Tx® solution: Supporting patient safety, streamlining efficiency, and fostering innovation at the bedside |
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14:00 - 15:30 | Red Cell SIG Part 3: Red cells in fetal medicine Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew Prenatal Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease - Alexandros Abdel Massih & Lisa Kaiser Umbilical Cord derived Red Blood Cells for Transfusing Newborn Infants at Risk - is it The Magic Bullet? - Charles Roehr HDFN Caused by a Novel Low Prevalence Scianna Antigen- SCIBB - Nicole Thornton |
Patient Blood Management and Appropriate Transfusion SIG Chairs: Fateha Chowdhury & Julie Staves Use of A pos platelets as emergency stock - Sewa Joacquim-Hearne Moving to Group A FFP as Emergency Stock - Julie Northcote Use of O Dneg Red Cells - Dora Foukaneli | |
Components SIG Chairs: Mike Wilshire & Christine Saunders Update on nDEHP - Richard Blanco Cold Stored Platelets - Chloe George Title TBC - Sean Heveran | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Plenary I: Cyber Attack - the aftermath and the way forward Speaker 2: Lessons learnt and wider implications from a Cyber attack - Dr Mike Prentice |
17:30 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception & Exhibition Opening |
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07.00 - 08:30 | 5K Run |
08:00 - 08:45 | Conference Registration |
Simultaneous Sessions | |
09:00 - 10:30 | 1: Blood Group Genotyping - Past, Present and Future Chair: Nicole Thornton The power of genetic testing to resolve complex blood groups - Louise Tilley Large scale blood group genotyping - where are we up to and what does the future hold? - Kate Downes Predicting blood group phenotypes by genotyping – how far we have come! - Jill Storry |
2. Margaret Kenwright Awards Chair: Jamie Nash Burden of past and current infection in Black donors: one barrier to donation - Qanisha Hall Impact of Cold Storage on Platelet Receptor Expression and Aggregation: Focus on GPVI, PAR1, and PAC1 - Alexa Magno Red Blood Cell Extracellular Vesicles Impact on Dopaminergic Cell Line Response: Implications for Synucleinopathies - Ellie Delahay Dr Sara Wright - The Role of NHSBT RCI in Managing Complex Post-Transplant Serology and Transfusion Support in a Patient with X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease | |
3: Patient Blood Management and Blood Health Chair: Danny Gaskin Introduction to PBM - Andrea Marshall Anaemia management – where do we start? - Stephanie Ditcham More Than Iron: Addressing the Gender Gap in Blood Health - Clare Cook A Clinical Case Study: “Good News” Indeed - Julie Gillies | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Plenary II: BBTS Award Lectures |
12:30 - 13:00 | BBTS Annual General Meeting (AGM), Members Only |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:30 | 4. Hospital Lab Chairs: Julie Staves and Graham Scott Debate: Should Unqualified Laboratory staff be allowed to issue Blood components and products Case For: Tim Wreford-Bush Case Against: Anna Capps-Jenner |
5. Clinical Case Studies Chair: Katie Hands Speaker 1: Michelle Melly Speaker 2: Kalinga Perera Speaker 3: Laura Knox The Magic of the MDT - Anne Kelly | |
6. Donors/Donation Chairs: Chiara Vendramin & Champa Manchanayake Neurodiversity and blood donation: implications for the donor journey - Professor Eamonn Ferguson Testing four interventions to prevent donation-related vasovagal reactions: the Strategies to Improve Donor Experiences (STRIDES) trial - Yaning Wu Keeping Malaria Out of the Blood Supply: Where We Stand and Where We’re Headed - Dr Laura Nabarro | |
7. Transfusion Transformation Chair: Louise Sherliker Overview of Transfusion Transformation strategic plan - Shubha Allard What does Transfusion Transformation mean to patients? - Anna Mamwell How will Transfusion Transformation deliver changes in hospital and regional governance - Dr Ric Proctor Transfusion Transformation and the Transfusion Laboratory. What can we expect? - Kerry Dowling How Transfusion Transformation is supporting the role of the Transfusion Practitioner - Stuart Lord | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 16:45 | Networking & Poster Viewing |
16:45 - 17:15 | Poster Prize Giving |
19:00 - Midnight | Conference Dinner |
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08:00 - 09:30 | Conference Registration |
Simultaneous Sessions | |
09:30 - 11:00 | 8: Serological Case Studies Chair: Laura Eastwood What to do, when you don't have a clue? - Rachel Lammin Anti-CD36 in the Red Cell Immunohaematology Laboratory - Meghan McIntosh Are you in or are you out? Absorptions and Elution’s in a tertiary reference laboratory. - Ben Jones |
9: SHOT Chair: Claire Wroe SHOT Transfusion Safety Standards and changes to the Transfusion laboratory errors: looking back to step forwards - Victoria Tuckley From Stats to Solutions: Addressing transfusion delays - Dr Josephine McCullagh Clinical implementation of the validated intraoperative bleeding scale (VIBe scale) - Steve Leung Improving transfusion information for patients - Denise McKeown & Victoria Tuckley | |
10: EDI Chairs: Ian Sullivan & Erhabor Osaro GIRFT for Hemoglobinpathy patients - Dr Wale Atoyebi Tackling health inequalities at NHS Blood and Transplant: closing the gap, saving more lives - Prof Renata Gomes Title TBC - Umar Malik | |
11:00 0 11:30 | Break |
11:30 - 13:00 | Plenary III - Machine Learning and AI in Blood Transfusion Monitoring, benchmarking and feedback of data: Ryan Metcalf Machine Learning/AI in Transfusion: Suzanne Maynard Novel trial designs and embedding research into practice: Hayley Evans |
13:00 - 13:15 | Closing Remarks, Prof David Roberts |
13:15 - 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 | Close of Exhibition and Departure |
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