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BMT Conferences

Held every Monday
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Room 450, Masonic Cancer Research Building

 

DATE TOPIC SPEAKER
09/08/08 Inpatient BMT Rehab Program Linda M. Tripp, P.T.
Eva Gold, P.T.
Kate Cummins, O.T.
Sheila Gonzales, P.T.
09/15/08 Attending meeting  
09/22/08 Program meeting  
09/29/09 Life after BMT: Loss of ovarian function and fertility Rahel Ghebre, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Member, Women's Cancer Program
10/06/08 Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in MDS: Ongoing controversies Erica Warlick, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine/HOT
10/13/08 Hox genes and HSC self-renewal Michael Kyba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics/Hem/Onc/BMT
10/20/08 Inhibition of GVHD using ex vivo expanded Treg: Update on Cord Blood Treg trial and initiation of Peripheral Blood Treg clinical trial Keli Hippen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics/Hematolgy-Oncology

Margaret MacMillan, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology

Claudio Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine/HOT

10/27/08 Campath-IH and stem cell transplant Shakila Khan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Hosted by: John Wagner, M.D.
11/03/08 Infectious disease Jo-Anne Young, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine/Infectious Disease
11/10/08 Hematopoietic stem cell niches and expansion Linheng Li, Ph.D.
Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA

Hosted by: John Wagner, M.D.

11/17/08 Zebrafish: A new animal model for stem cell transplant and d homing Troy Lund, M.D., Ph.D.
Fellow
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
University of Minnesota
11/24/08
Mislocalized self-proteins as targets for anti-leukemia immunotherapy Gheath Alatrash, D.O., Ph.D.
Instructor
Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy
Barbara Rattay Foundation Advanced Scholar Fellow
Division of Cancer Medicine University of Texas M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center

Hosted by: Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.

11/25/08
Special meeting date and time: 4-5:30 p.m.

ASH Practice

Non-myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in older patients with AML and MDS: Results from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)

Successful Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Engraftment Using a Non-Myeloablative Preparative Regimen Including Natural Killer (NK) Cells

Negative Effect of KIR Alloreactivity in Recipients of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Depends on Transplantation Conditioning Intensity

Fludarabine exposure and treatment related mortality

 

Brian McClune, D.O.







Sarah Cooley, M.D.






Claudio Brunstein, M.S., Ph.D.





Pamala Jacobson, PharmD

12/01/08 AHS practice

Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in
Hurler Syndrome

Identification of a Myeloid Pathway of NK Cell Development and a Myeloid-NK Cell Precursor

Decreased Infections in Recipients of Unrelated Donor (URD) Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) from Donors with An Activating KIR B Genotype (B/x)

Antisense Transcripts Negatively Regulate Transcription of Multiple Variegated Killer Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor (KIR) Genes



Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.



Bartosz Grzywacz, Ph.D.




Marcie Tomblyn, M.D., M.S.







Frank Cichocki

12/08/08 No conference due to ASH meeting  
12/15/08 Cancelled  
12/22/08 No conference due to holidays  
12/29/08 No conference due to holidays  
01/05/09   Wei Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
University of Minnesota
01/12/09 UCB Transplantation at the U of M: An update Claudio Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
01/19/09 No conference due to Martin Luther King Day  
01/26/09 Program meeting  
02/02/09 New directions in post-HSCT lung injury Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
02/09/09 The case for stem cell transplantation for older patients with myeloid malignancies Brian McClune, D.O.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
02/16/09 Canceled due to ASBMT  
02/23/09 Attending meeting  
03/02/09 Platelet transfusions and results of the PLADO Sherrill J. Slichter, M.D.
Director of Platelet Transfusion Research, Puget Sound Blood Center
Professor of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
03/09/09 Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical spectrum, diagnosis, management, and treatment

Professor John McGrath, M.B.B.S., M.D., F.R.C.P., St. John's Institute of Dermatology,Guy's Hospital

Hosted by: Dr. John Wagner

03/17/09 Is mini-allograft enough for adult ALL ? Veronika Bachanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
University of Minnesota
03/23/09 Toward clinical applications from human embryonic stem cells Dan S. Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation
Associate Director
Stem Cell Institute
University of Minnesota
03/30/09 Haplo NK (MT2003-23): Palliative care collaboration Bronwyn Long, D.N.P., R.N.
ACHPN Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of Minnesota Medical Center
04/06/09 Overcoming mechanisms of resistance to brain tumor immunotherapy John R. Ohlfest, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota
04/13/09 Show me the money: Costs of hematopoietic-cell transplantation Navneet S Majhail, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
University of Minnesota
04/20/09 Sleeping Beauty in BMT: Past, present, and future Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Masonic Cancer Center
Center for Immunology
Center for Genome Engineering
University of Minnesota
04/27/09 KIR in allotransplant: Finding a super donor




How hypomagnesemia can make your day
Sarah Cooley, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation

Susan Packard Zutz, BMT Clinic Manager
05/04/09 Is there more Graft-versus-Leukemia effect after unrelated donor transplant? Mukta Arora, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
05/11/09 Vitamin D and BMT: time for translational research Kim Robien, Ph.D., R.D., C.S.O., F.A.D.A.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
University of Minnesota
05/18/09 Platelet transfusion issues in stem cell transplantation: Cases for discussion Nicole Dodge Zantek, M.D., Ph.D.
Transfusion Medicine
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
and
Robert J. Bowman, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Co-director
University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview Transfusion Medicine
05/25/09 No meeting due to University holiday  
06/22/09 Imatinib for Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease George Chen, M.D.
Research Fellow
Blood & Marrow Transplant
Stanford University Medical School

Host: Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.

07/13/09 Investigation into immune evasion mechanisms in a pre-clinical model of acute myeloid leukemia Justin Kline, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Hematology/Oncology
University of Chicago

Host: Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.

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2005-2006 Conferences
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