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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, Fairview |
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 |