SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME DAY 1 - SATURDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER 2015 Chairs: Nguyen Anh Tri, Vip Viprakasit 08:30 – 08:55 - Overview of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (TDT) - Chi Kong Li 08.30 - 10.00
Symposium 1: Treatment updates
08:55 – 09:20 - Overview of Non-Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (NTDT) - Anuja Premawardhena 09:20 – 09:45 - Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) current progress - Suradej Hongeng 09:45 – 10:00 - Panel Discussion
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee
Satellite: Blood safety Symposium
Chairs: Androulla Eleftheriou/ Aparna Singh Shah/Erica Wood 10:30 – 10:55 - Blood adequacy and safety – Challenges in the Asian Region - Aparna Singh Shah 10:55 – 11:15 - Blood adequacy, safety and recruitment: the Vietnam model – Ngo Manh Quan
10.30 - 12.30
11:15 – 11:40 - Blood safety international standards-the Australian Model – Erica Wood 11:40 – 12:05 - Blood transfusion in Thalassaemia – Cheuk Kwong Lee 12:05 – 12:30 - Mitigating infectious risks in transfusion practice – Yesim Aydinok 12.30 – 14.00
Lunch