Hemostasis Happenings

Friday December 5th: Satelleite Symposium: San Francisco, Moscone Center
Thromboembolism in Cancer Patients: A Cogent Approach to Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment 12;30--4:30PM
Speakers:

Gary H. Lyman, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, Durham, NC
Alok A. Khorana, MD, James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Michael M. Millenson, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

New Perspectives, New Strategies in Venous Thromboembolic Disease 6-10PM
Speakers:

Jeffrey Weitz, MD, Henderson Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Charles T. Esmon, PhD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Richard Joel Friedman, MD, Charleston Orthopaedic Associates, Charleston, SC

ASH 50th Anniversary Meeting- San Francisco, California
Saturday Dec 6th:

Scientific Committee on Hemostasis
Hemostasis and Cancer
Chair:
David Lillicrap, MD, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Speakers:
Ajit P. Varki, MD, University of California School of Medicine, La Jolla, CASelectins, Heparins, and Cancer: Rationale for Clinical Trials
Jerry Ware, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, ARPlatelet Glycoprotein 1b-1X in Hemostasis and Malignancy
Joseph Palumbo, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Mechanisms Coupling Thrombin-Mediated Proteolysis to Metastasis

Scientific Committee on Platelets
Platelet Life Cycle
Chair:
Kenneth J. Clemetson, PhD, DSc, Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Speakers:
Alan B. Cantor, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MATranscriptional Regulation of Thrombopoiesis
Elisabeth Cramer-Bordé, PhD, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne, FrancePlatelet Birth
Benajmin T. Kile, PhD, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia, Platelet Death


Scientific Commitee on Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
Crosstalk Between Vascular Inflammation and Thrombosis
Chair:
Wolfram Ruf, MD, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Speakers:
Paul S. Frenette, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Contributions of Immune Cells to Vascular Occlusion in Sickle Cell Disease
Andrew S. Weyrich, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Novel Mechanisms of Translational Control Linking Inflammation and Thrombosis
J. Evan Sadler, MD, PhD, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MOVon Willebrand Factor in Weibel-Palade Bodies

Thrombophilia and Thrombosis in Children
Chair:
Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Speakers:
Leslie Raffini, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Thrombophilia in Children: Who to Test, How, When, and Why

Neil Goldenberg, MD, Mountain States Regional Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and The Children's Hospital, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, Genetic and Acquired Thrombophilias in Children: Outcome Predictors

Guy Young, MD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, New Anticoagulants in Children: Pharmacokinetics, Pharmocodynamics, Risks, and Benefits

Thrombosis
Chair:
Charles W. Francis, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Speakers:
Henri Bounameaux, MD, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Duration of Anticoagulation Therapy for Venous Thromboembolism

Charles W. Francis, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. New Issues in Oral Anticoagulants

Mark A. Crowther, MD, St. Joseph's Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Reversal of Coumadin Over-Anticoagulation


Tuesday, December 9
Special Symposium on the Basic Science of Hemostasis and ThrombosisPresented by the Scientific Committees on Hemostasis, Vascular Biology, and Platelets
Invited presentations:
Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Simultaneous oral sessions:
Tuesday, December 9, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Co-Chairs:
Nigel S. Key, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Eric F. Grabowski, MD, ScD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Elizabeth Cramer-Bordé, PhD, Hopital Ambroise Pare, Boulogne, France
Speakers:
Paul Kubes, PhD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Platelet Toll-Like Receptors in Hemostasis and Host Defense
Scott L. Diamond, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Flow Initiation of Thrombosis
Leslie V. Parise, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Platelet Activation and Inflammation
Berend Isermann, MD, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. The Thrombomodulin-Protein C System and Angiopathy

Speaker To Be Determined. A presentation will be made by the 2008 recipient of the Mary Rodes Gibson Memorial Award in Hemostasis and Thrombosis, the trainee with the highest-scoring abstract at the ASH annual meeting in the field of hemostasis and thrombosis.

Eastwood Nottingham:
Friday October 17th: Clinical Leaders of Thrombosis Preventing DVT
Impact of testing polymorphysims CYP2CP and VKORKC1

ASCP Baltimore:
Sunday October 18th: Companion Diagnostics in Coagulation,
Dorothy Adcock-Funk, Kandice Kotke-Marchant, Donna Castellone


ASCLS Portland Maine:
Tuesday October 21st: PT & INR Problems and Answers
Marck Gusack, MD

Wednesday October 22nd: Do's and Don't in the Coagulation Laboratory
What's in your coagulation lab? - Donna D. Castellone, MS, MT(ASCP)SH

Thursday October 23rd: Coagulation Case Studies:
Laura Worfolk, PhD.
Monitoring Anticoagulation Therapy with Chromogenic Assays - David McGlasson, MS.


ASCLS New Mexico
Thursday October 30th: Case Studies in Coagulation -
Janet Peletgrew

HEMOSTASIS HAPPENINGS: September 2008
11 ASCP Workshops for Laboratory Professionals, Indianapolis Marriott East. Contact ASCP Customer Services: 800-267-2727, info@ascp.org
Laboratory Response to Bleeding - Joseph Melvin PhD.

12 Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis South. Contact ASCP Customer Services: 800-267-2727, info@ascp.org.
Update in Hemostasis and Thrombosis - John Francis, PhD

17 AABB audioconference: "What's New in Platelet Products?" Contact AABB: 301-215-6482, education@aabb.org, http://www.aabb.org/.

26 ASCP Workshops for Laboratory Professionals, Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport (CA). Contact ASCP Customer Services: 800-267-2727, info@ascp.org.
Down and Dirty Coagulation: Donna Castellone, MS, MT(ASCP)SH

11-13 Venous Thromboembolism: From bench to bedside-
Chapel Hill, North Carolina September 11-13.

18-19 IMSS Conference, Jackson Hole Wyoming
Diagnosis of APS in the Clinical Laboratory - Mike Nardy, MS, H(ASCP)SH
Laboratory Monitoring of Heparin - Christopher Lehman MD.

24-25 Case Oriented Symposium on Bleeding and Thrombosis: Reston VA,
Wednesday Sept 24 Time Speaker TopiC

9:00 - 10:00 Lynn Boshkov, m.D. Pediatric Hemostasis
10:00 - 11:00 Marissa Marques, D. Bleeding Patients
11:30 - 12:30 Lawrence Rice, D. HIT
1:45 - 2:45 Sam Schulman, D., ph.D. Anticoaguation Monitoring
2:45 - 3:45 Frederick Rickles, D. Cancer and Hemostasis
4:00 - 5:00 Faculty Roundtable Q&A Forum
Thursday Sept 25
9:15 - 10:15 Mervyn Sahud, m.D. Aspirin Resistance
10:15 - 11:15 Robert Roubey, D. LA and APA
11:30 - 12:30 Arthur Bracey, D. Intra-operative Coagulation
1:30 - 2:30 Jeffrey Dlott, m.D. vD disease
2:30 - 3:30 Philip Comp, D., ph.D. Case Studies

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