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Meet-the-Experts (Saturday)

Saturday, December 6, 2008: 11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Transplant Strategies for Acute Leukemia

Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

Bone Marrow Failure

Grover C. Bagby Jr., MD

Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute, Portland, OR

Hemolytic Anemia

Edward J. Benz Jr., MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Ribosomal Proteins and Telomeres in Bone Marrow Failure

Monica Bessler, MD, PhD

Washington University Medical School, Saint Louis, MO

Sickle Cell and Children

George J. Dover, MD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Inherited Bleeding and Clotting Diseases

David Ginsburg, MD

University of Michigan Medical School, Life Sciences Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

Hemolytic Anemia Associated Pulmonary Hypertension and Endothelial Dysfunction: An Emerging Cause of Mortality in Hemolytic Disease

Mark Gladwin, MD

Critical Care Med. Dept., Clinical Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Frontline Therapy of Multiple Myeloma

Jean-Luc Harousseau

University Hospital Hotel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Cancer Stem Cells

Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Brad Kahl, MD

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Non-Invasive Iron Assessment in Thalassemia

Ellis J. Neufeld, MD, PhD

Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Iron Overload in MDS: Is There a Rationale for Treatment?

Eliezer A. Rachmilewitz, MD

The Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Hodgkin Lymphoma: Maximizing the Quality and Duration of Survival

John A. Radford, MD

Cancer Research UK Department of Medical Oncology, Christie Hospital and University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Tissue Factor, Coagulation, and Inflammation

Wolfram Ruf, MD

SP258, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Transcription Factors and Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Kathleen M. Sakamoto, MD, PhD

Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children and Adolescents

Nita L. Seibel, MD

Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Neil P. Shah, MD, PhD

University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Signaling and Transcription in Megakaryopoiesis

Ramesh A Shivdasani, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Management of Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Roberto Stasi, MD

Ospedale Regina Apostolorum, Albano Laziale, Italy

Selecting the Optimal Cord Blood Graft

John E. Wagner, MD

Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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