• Topics of interest to professionals in blood bank, clinical, and medical settings
• Some offered at more than one Michigan Community Blood Centers location
• Continuing Education contact/credit hours
• Sessions range from 75 to 90 minutes in length
• Offered free as a service to the professional community

You must register separately for each conference you plan to attend, by calling at least two days in advance the location hosting the session, as follows:

• Grand Rapids – Call Education Coordinator, 616-233-8576 or 1-866-MIBLOOD
• Saginaw – Call Laboratory Operations Manager, 989-755-5387 or 1-866-MIBLOOD
• Traverse City – Call Operations Manager, 231-935-3030 or 1-866-MIBLOOD

Key to Sponsors

• ASCP - American Society of Clinical Pathologists (1.0 CME/CMLE credit hr per session)
• AABB - American Association of Blood Banks (1.5 CME/CMLE credit hr per session)
• GU - Georgetown University (1.5 ABHI Continuing Education Credits per session)

2008 Schedule

All Times = Eastern Time

• January 30 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Vendor Qualifications: Unique Issues for the Cell Therapy Laboratory” (AABB)
• February 6 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City: “Errors & Non-Conformances: How to Document and Re-train” (AABB)
• February 27 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Mechanisms & Laboratory Investigation of Drug-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia” (AABB)
• March 5 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Hematopoietic Cell Donation: Ensuring Safety for the Donor, Product, & Recipient” (AABB)
• March 12 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Those Tricky and Sometimes Elusive Serologic Results – Pitfalls in RBC Antibody Identification” (ASCP)
• March 19 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Seological to Molecular Testing: Points to Consider for Successful Conversion” (AABB)
• March 26 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “How to Ease the Process of Donor Deferral Reentry” (AABB)
• April 2 - 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Traverse City: "Changes to the 25th Edition of Standards for Blood Banks And Transfusion Services" (AABB).
• April 23 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Use of Apheresis Products in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation” (AABB)
• April 29 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City: “Prion Diseases and Transfusion Safety” (ASCP)
• May 6 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “HLA Typing Challenges in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant” (GU)
  
• May 14 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Saginaw: “Preparing Effective Training Material for Your Organization” (AABB)
• May 28 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “WNV Triggering Criteria for 2008” (AABB)
• May 29 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Informed Consent for Transfusion – What, When, and How” (ASCP)
• June 3 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Phlebotomy Education – Training the New Phlebotomist” (ASCP)
  
• June 4 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw: “TTP Pathophysiology (+ADAMTS 13) & Treatment and Treatment: Nurses’ Perspective” (AABB)
• June 10 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City: “Keys to Successful Strategic Planning” Leadership Management Audioconference (AABB)
  
• June 18 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw: “Tracking Blood Electronically: The Future is Here” (AABB)
• June 26 – 2 pm, Saginaw: “Transfusion-Transmitted Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection” (ASCP)
  
• July 16 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Cord Blood Recruitment” (AABB)
• July 30 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Coagulation Case Studies for Blood Bankers” (AABB)
  
• August 6 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Blood and Stem Cell Donors as Research Subjects” (AABB)
• August 19 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City: “Budgeting and Finance” Leadership Management Audioconference (AABB)
• August 26 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “STR Analysis for Monitoring Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients” (GU)
• September 9 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Transfusion Therapy in Neonates and Infants – Current & Future Challenges” (ASCP)
  
• September 10 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Managing Massive Transfusion: Clinical & Blood Bank Perspectives” (AABB)
• September 17 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Saginaw: “What’s New in Platelet Products?” (AABB)
• September 23 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “The Role of Minor Histocompatibility Antigens in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant” (GU)
• September 24 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Models for Effective Quarantine & Segregation of Cellular Therapy Products” (AABB)
• October 29 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Dealing with Extraneous Results in Serologic Testing” (AABB)
• November 4 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids & Saginaw: “Informed Consent for Donation – Whole Blood & Apheresis (Including Progenitor Cell & WBC Donors) (ASCP)
• November 5 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “The Positive Direct Antiglobulin Test – Where Do We Go From Here?” (ASCP)
• November 18, Grand Rapids: “Tissue Banking The Hospital Perspective” (ASCP)
• November 18 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Saginaw: “Effective Tools for Proper Resource Management” Leadership Management Audioconference (AABB)
• November 19 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw: “Platelet Refractoriness: Causes & Treatments” (AABB)
• December 3 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Hospital and Blood Provider-Driven Blood Management: A Unique & Creative Joint Venture” (AABB)
• December 9 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “The Joint Transplant Histocompatibility Conference: A Progress Report” (GU)
• December 10 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Differential Diagnosis of Suspected Pulmonary Transfusion Reactions” (AABB)

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