HemostasisCME.org offers a number of continuing education opportunities

HemostasisCME.org offers a number of continuing education opportunities relating to thrombosis. Visit http://www.hemostasiscme.org/ActivitiesByTopic.asp?tpc=3&title=Coagulopathy for a list of current programs.

ThrombosisClinic.com is a continuing medical education resource for health care professionals

ThrombosisClinic.com is a continuing medical education resource for health care professionals emphasizing the latest in emerging approaches in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of thrombosis. Visit http://www.ThrombosisClinic.com for more information.

Thrombosis-Consult.com

Thrombosis-Consult.com has a Free CME section that lists a number of Thrombosis-related CME opportunities. These listings are located at http://thrombosis.freecme.com/gallcourses.php

The University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Continuing Education and Meeting Services-Programs

offers a number of continuing education opportunities relating to anticoagulation and antithrombotic therapy. To review current opportunities, go to http://www.pharmacyce.uic.edu/Public/Catalog/

ASCLS Annual Meeting: July 29-August 2, 2008

Washington, DC Capital Hilton
Tuesday July 29th, 2008: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Update in Hemostasis and Thrombosis
John Francis, PhD, Florida Hospital Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis

Wednesday July 30th 2008

• 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Current Strategies in Anticoagulant Monitoring
  Dorothy Adcock

• 3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
  Chromogenic or Clottable Assays for Monitoring Subjects on Heparins or Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
  David L. McGlasson
  
  
• 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
  Coagulation Case Studies for Blood Bankers

For futher information please contact: Joseph Sanchez, Director, Education & Training, Phone: (318) 222-7770, x434.

54th Annual SSC Committee Meeting, International Society of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Vienna, Austria: July 2-5, 2008

Visit www.scc2008.org for more information

Gorden Research Conference June 29 - July 4, 2008

Waterville Valley Resort
Waterville Valley, NH

• Sunday June 29th
  
• Welcome
• Peter Newman
  Blood Research Institute, BloodCenter of Wisconsin

• 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm
  
• HISTORICAL VIEWS OF THROMBOSIS AND HEMOSTASIS

• 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm
  
• Barry Coller
  Rockefeller University
  "From the Rivers of Babylon to the Coronary Blood Stream: Vignettes form the _IIb_3 Story"
  

• 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  
• Charles Esmon
  Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  "Toward an Understanding of the Physiological Regulation of Blood Coagulation"

• Monday June 30th
• 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
  
• BIOLOGY OF VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR
  Discussion Leader: Zaverio Ruggeri
  Scripps Research Institute

• 9:00 am - 9:25 am
  
• Robert Montgomery
  Blood Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin
  "Polymorphic Variation of VWF Function"
  

• 9:40 am - 10:05 am
  
• Jose Lopez
  Puget Sound Blood Center
  "Shear Hell: VWF and Oxidative Stress"
  

• 11:00 am - 11:25 am
• J. Evan Sadler
  Washington University, St. Louis
  "Assembly, Storage and Structure of von Willebrand Factor"

• 11:40 am - 12:05 pm
  
• Karen Vanhoorelbeke
  Catholic University of Leuven, Campus Kortrijk
  "von Willebrand Factor and its Processing by ADAMTS13"
  

• 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
  
• BASIC AND CLINICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ANTI-THROMBOTICS
• Discussion Leader: Wolfgang Eisert
  Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Germany
  

• 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
  
• J. Anthony Ware
  Eli Lilly
  "Prasugrel and the Patient Determinants of Drug Response"
  

• 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
  
• Robert Schaub
  Archemix Corp
  "The Evaluation of an Anti-von Willebrand Factor Therapeutic Aptamer"
  

• 8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
  
• Discussion
  
  
• 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
• Pamela Conley
  Portola
  "Mechanistic Distinctions of Reversible and Irreversible P2Y12 Antagonists"
  

• Tuesday July 1
• 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
  
• BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS AND HEMOSTASIS
• Discussion Leader: Sriram Krishnaswamy
  University of Pennsylvania
  

• 9:00 am - 9:25 am
  
• Shannon Meeks
  Emory University School of Medicine
  "Uncovering the Diversity of Structural and Functional Epitopes on the C2 Domain of Factor VIII"
  

• 9:40 am - 10:05 am
  
• Susan Lord
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "Defining Residues Critical to Fibrin Clot Structure"
  

• 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
  
• Jacky Chi Ki Ngo
  Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard
  "Crystal Structure of B-Domain Deleted Factor VIII"
  

• 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
  
• ATHEROTHROMBOSIS
  Discussion Leader: Susan Smyth
  University of Kentucky

• 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
• Willem Ouwehand
  Cambridge University, United Kingdom
  "Genome-wide Association Study Meets Systems Biology"
  

• 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
  
• Peter Davies
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Arterial Hemodynamics and Endothelial Phenotypes in vivo: Coagulation Checks and Balances"
  

• 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
• Eugene Podrez
  Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
  "Platelet Scavenger Receptors Class B, Oxidative Stress and Atherothrombosis"

• Wednesday July 2
• 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
  
• PLATELET SIGNALING - What turns 'em on, what turns 'em off
• Discussion Leader: Sanford Shattil
  University of California - San Diego

• 9:00 am - 9:25 am
  
• Lawrence Brass
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Novel Regulators of Thrombus Growth and Stability"
  

• 9:40 am - 10:05 am
  
• Jane Freedman
  Boston University
  "Thrombosis and the Platelet Transcriptome"
  

• 10:50 am - 11:15 am
  
• Joel Bennett
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Interactions of Integrin Transmembrane and Cytoplasmic Domains"

• 11:30 am - 11:55 am
  
• Mark Kahn
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Regulation of Thrombopoiesis and Platelet Function by Collagen Receptors"
  

• 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
  
• Donna Woulfe
  Thomas Jefferson University
  "The Akt/GSK3 Pathway: Regulating Platelet Responses to Agonist"