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  • Saturday, Oct 17th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST
    When TACO Isn’t on the Menu: Preventing Tacos and Finding the Reactions We’re Missing
    Room: B405
    Program Chair: Eric A. Gehrie, MD – New York Blood Center Enterprises
    Speaker: Edina Wappler-Guzzetta, MD, PhD – Boston Medical Center, Boston University
    Speaker: Nalan Yurtsever, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine
    Transfusion
  • Saturday, Oct 17th
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EST
    Evaluating and Providing Transfusion Support for Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): How the Blood Bank, the Bedside, and the Benchtop Can Boost Each Other When Patients' Lives Hang in the Balance
    Room: MBI
    Program Chair: Herleen Rai, M.D. – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Tobias Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Anna Liveris, M.D. – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Transfusion
  • Saturday, Oct 17th
    10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST
    From Womb to Recovery: Navigating Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia
    Room: B308/309
    Program Chair: Nathan McLamb, MD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Speaker: Irem Eldem, MD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Speaker: Shraddha Babariya, MD (she/her/hers) – American Red Cross
    Transfusion
  • Saturday, Oct 17th
    10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST
    The Transfusion Safety Officer and Nursing: The Importance of a Team Based Model for Advancing Transfusion Safety
    Room: B401/402
    Program Chair: Jenna Khan, MD (she/her/hers) – UVA Health University Medical Center
    Speaker: Marlene Mayberry, MSN-Ed, RN – UVA Health University Medical Center
    Transfusion
  • Saturday, Oct 17th
    1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST
    Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn in 2026: Still a Life-threatening Disease
    Room: B312/313A
    Program Chair: Kerry OBrien, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Scott Shainker, DO – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Emily Whitesel, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Transfusion
  • Sunday, Oct 18th
    9:45 AM - 11:00 AM EST
    From Event Review to Predictive Safety: How Transfusion Safety Officers Use Data to Prevent the Next Transfusion Error
    Room: B407
    Program Chair: Lee Anne Sorto, DNP, FNP-C, TSO – ECU Health
    Speaker: Jason Breen, PA-C, MHS, MA Ed, MLS(ASCP) – Westchester Medical Center
    Transfusion
  • Sunday, Oct 18th
    3:15 PM - 4:15 PM EST
    Blood Use in Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Regulatory Gaps, Patient Safety Risks, and the Urgent Need for Standardized Practice
    Room: B401/402
    Speaker: Gagan Mathur, MD, MBA – University of California, Irvine
    Speaker: Jennifer O'Brien, MD – Ochsner Medical Center
    Program Chair: Amanda Herrmann, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – McGovern Medical School
    Transfusion
  • Monday, Oct 19th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST
    Strict ABO Plasma/platelet Matching versus Selective Group AB and B Component Avoidance to Avoid Anaphylactic Transfusion Reactions Due to Alpha Gal Syndrome: The Experience of 3 Hospitals
    Room: B401/402
    Program Chair: Colleen Gilstad, MD – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
    Speaker: Majed Rafaai, MD, MD – University of Rochester Medical Center
    Speaker: Martin Ongkeko, MD – Medstar Washington Hospital Center
    Transfusion
  • Monday, Oct 19th
    3:15 PM - 4:15 PM EST
    Precision Transfusion Strategies to Enable Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
    Room: B308/309
    Program Chair: John Manis, M.D. – Boston Children’s Hospital
    Transfusion