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BMT Conferences 2005-2006
| Date | Presenter |
August 29, 2005 Following cell fates and function for optimizing cell-based therapies |
Christopher Contag, MD, PhD Associate Professor Departments of Pediatrics Microbiology & Immunology, and Radiology Co-director, Program in Molecular Imaging at Stanford (MIPS) Host: Bruce Blazar, MD Partially sponsored by unrestricted educational grant from AMGEN, Inc |
| September 5, 2005 | No conference due to Labor Day holiday |
September 12, 2005 Cancer Pain Management |
Mark Leenay, MD, MS Medical Director, Transitions and Life Choices, Palliative Care and Hospice for Fairview Health Services Assistant Professor Department of Family Medicine University of Minnesota |
September 19, 2005 Program Meeting |
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Septembert 26, 2005 Infectious complications following Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation |
Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Medicine University of Minnesota |
October 3, 2005 Metabolic syndrome in survivors after HCT |
K. Scott Baker, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric H/O/BMT University of Minnesota |
October 10, 2005 Novel approaches to therapy in AML |
Martin P. Carroll, M.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director, Stem Cell Core Facility University of Pennsylvania Hosted by: Wei Chen MD, PhD |
October 17, 2005 Stem Cells: From clinic to bench to clinic |
Dan S. Kaufman, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Stem Cell Institute and Dept. of Medicine Division of HOT University of Minnesota |
October 24, 2005 |
To be announced |
October 31, 2004 Attending meeting |
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November 7, 2005 T regs to prevent GVHD after PBPC transplantation - and - Lupron to enhance immune recovery after autologous BMT |
Margy MacMillan, M.D. Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation University of Minnesota |
November 14, 2005 TLR-7 agonist therapy for hematologic malignancies |
Jeffrey Miller, M.D. Professor of Medicine Hematology/Oncology/Transplant University of Minnesota -and- Sarah Cooley, M.D. Fellow Hematology/Oncology/Transplant |
November 21, 2005 New tricks for an old dog? Transplantation for acute lymphocytic leukemia |
Mike Verneris, M.D. Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation University of Minnesota |
November 28, 2005 ASH Presentations |
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Non-Myeloablative (NMA) Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation (UCBT): Promising Disease-Free Survival on 95 Consecutive Patients |
Claudio Brunstein, M.D. Assistant Professor, Medicine HOT |
| Prolonged Remissions with Autologous and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Burkitt’s Lymphoma: Long Term Follow-Up at a Single Institution | Purvi Gada, M.B., B.S. Medicine HOT Fellow |
| Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia in 126 Adults: Impact of Donor Source on Leukemia Free Survival | Priya Kumar, M.D. Medicine HOT Fellow |
December 5 ASH Presentations |
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| Prognostic Factors in Patients with Fanconi Anemia (FA) after Alternative Donor (AD) Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) | Suleimman A. Alsweedan, M.D. Pediatric H/O/BMT Fellow |
| Impact of Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD) on the Health Status of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) Survivors: A Report from the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivor Study | Christopher Fraser, M.D. Pediatric BMT Fellow |
| Risk of Relapse (REL) after Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation (UCBT) in Patients with Acute Leukemia: Marked Reduction in Recipients of Two Units | Michael R. Verneris, M.D. Assistant Professor, Pediatrics H/O/BMT |
December 12, 2005 Cancelled due to ASH meeting |
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December 19, 2005 Adult Stem Cells for Tissue Repair |
Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology/Oncology And Blood and Marrow Transplantation |
| December 26, 2005 | No conference due to holidays |
| January 2, 2006 | No conference due to holiday |
January 9, 2006 Respiratory virus management
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Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Medicine University of Minnesota |
| January 16, 2006 | No conference due to Martin Luther King Holiday |
January 23, 2006 Update on the BMT mycophenolate and fludarabine clinical pharmacology studies |
Pamala Jacobson, Pharm.D. Associate Professor Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota |
Jauary 30, 2006 Lymphoma – Is it Automatic? |
Marcie Tomblyn, M.D., M.S. Assistant Professor of Medicine Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation University of Minnesota |
February 6, 2006 Program Meeting |
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| February 13, 2006 | Cancelled due to BMT tandem meetings |
| February 20, 2006 | Cancelled due to BMT tandem meetings |
February 27, 2006 Criteria for selecting hematopoietic stem cell donors |
John E. Wagner, M.D. Division Director, Pediatric H/O/BMT University of Minnesota Dennis L. Confer, M.D. Chief Medical Officer National Marrow Donor Program Kathy French, R.N., B.S.N. BMT Nurse Coordinator Unrelated Donor Searches University of Minnesota Medical Center |
March 6, 2006 Update on Chronic Graft versus Host Disease |
Mukta Arora, M.D., M.S. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation University of Minnesota |
March 13, 2006 New radioprotective agents |
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Ph.D., (ABMLI) Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics Divisions of Pediatric H/O/BMT and Pulmonary and Critical Care University of Minnesota |
March 20, 2006 Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India: Opportunities and challenges |
Raj Behl, M.D. Adams Fellow in Hematopoietic Transplantation Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA BMT Faculty Candidate Hosted by: Daniel Weisdorf, MD |
March 27, 2006 Attending meeting |
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April 3, 2006 Quantitative approaches to understanding the pathogenesis and progression of CMV and EBV infections |
Henry H. Balfour, Jr., M.D. Professor Departments of Lab Medicine and Pathology and Pediatrics University of Minnesota |
April 10, 2006 Adult UCB transplant |
Claudio Brunstein, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation University of Minnesota |
April 17, 2006 New srategies in transplantation for metabolic diseases |
Paul Orchard, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation University of Minnesota |
April 24, 2006 Nonmyeloablative transplantation for myeloma |
Brian McClune, D.O. Chief Fellow Hematology/Oncology University of Tennessee Health Science Center BMT Faculty Candidate Hosted by: Daniel Weisdorf, MD |
May 1, 2006 TLR7-targeted immunotherapy of acute leukemias -Dr. Kumar will present mouse leukemia data -Dr. Chen will present information on human leukemia studies |
Ashish Kumar, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - and – Wei Chen, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation |
May 8, 2006 Catheter infections |
Arne Slungaard, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation University of Minnesota -and- Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Medicine University of Minnesota |
May 15, 2006 Attending meeting |
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May 22, 2006 One stone kills two birds: Sleeping Beauty mediated T cell therapy for leukemia |
Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Blood and Marrow Transplantation University of Minnesota |
May 29, 2006 No conference due to Memorial Day holiday |