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401. Basic Science and Clinical Practice in Blood Transfusion: Poster III

Basic Science and Clinical Practice in Blood Transfusion Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Poster
Monday, December 7, 2015: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Hall A, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)

Scott A. Kirkley, MD*, Kelly F Henrichs, BS, MT(ASCP)*, Amy P. Schmidt, MD PhD*, Majed A. Refaai, MD, Richard P. Phipps, PhD*, Sherry L Spinelli, PhD*, Debra Masel, BS, MT(ASCP) SBB*, Jill M Cholette, MD*, Anthony Pietropaoli, MD*, Joanna M. Heal, MD, MBBS, MRCP and Neil Blumberg, MD

University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Jialan Shi, MD, PhD, Xiu-Gui Lu, MD* and Hemant S Thatte, MSc, PhD*

Cardiothoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

James A Bynum, PhD1*, Tiffani Chance, BS2*, Michael Adam Meledeo, PhD1* and Heather F. Pidcoke, MD, PhD1*

1Institute of Surgical Research, US Army, San Antonio, TX
2John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Ulrich Jaeger, MD1, Eileen L Rose2*, Andrew Singh2*, Sebastian H A Feickert3*, Simon Panzer4*, Bernd Jilma, MD5, James C. Gilbert, MD2* and Sandip Panicker, PhD2

1Dept. of Medicine I, Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2True North Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
3Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
4Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
5Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rick Kapur, MD, PhD*, Michael Kim, BSc*, Shanjee Shanmugabhavananthan*, Edwin R. Speck, BRT*, Rukhsana Aslam, PhD*, Li Guo, MD, Anne Zufferey, PhD* and John W. Semple, PhD

St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Deepak Singhal, MD, FRCPA1*, Sophia Hague, BAppSc (MedSc)2*, David Roxby, MAppSc AFRCPA FFSc[RCPA]3*, L Amilia Wee, BSc(Hons)4*, Oi-Lin Lee, MBBS, FRCPA1*, Romi Sinha, MBBS, MIBMS, FACHI5*, Rakchha Chhetri, MBBS6*, James X Gray, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, MD, PhD7, Pratyush Giri, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA1*, Kathryn Robinson, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA7*, Shriram Nath, MBBS, DM, FRCPA8*, Nicholas Wickham, FRCPA, FRACP, FRCPath9, Chi-hung Hui, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath, FRACP, FRCPA9*, David T Yeung, BSc, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA1, David M Ross, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA1*, Ian D Lewis, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA4, Peter G Bardy, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA10*, L Bik To, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD4 and Devendra K Hiwase, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, MD, PhD4

1Haematology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
2Transfusion Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
3Transfusion Services, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia
4Haematology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
5Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
6SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
7Haematology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, Australia
8Haematology, Ashford Specialist Centre, Ashford, Australia
9Haematology, Icon Cancer Care, Kurralta Park, Australia
10Haematology/Oncology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia

Lyla A Youssef1,2*, Stuart Phillip Weisberg, MD, PhD,1*, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, BA3*, Eldad A. Hod, MD3 and Steven L Spitalnik, MD4

1Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
3Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
4Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

Stuart Phillip Weisberg, MD, PhD,1*, Lyla A Youssef2*, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, BA3*, Richard O. Francis, MD, PhD4, James C. Zimring, MD, PhD5 and Eldad A. Hod, MD3

1Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
3Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
4Laboratory of Transfusion Biology, Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
5Department of Laboratory Medicine and Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Masahiro Takeyama, MD, PhD1*, Keiji Nogami, MD. PhD1*, Tomoko Matsumoto, PhD2*, Takehisa Kitazawa, DVM3*, Kunihiro Hattori, PhD3* and Midori Shima, MD, PhD2

1Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
2Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
3Chugai Pharmaceutical, Gotemba, Japan

Luciana Teofili*, Caterina Giovanna Valentini*, Nicola Piccirillo*, Roberta De Blasi*, Patrizia Chiusolo*, Rossana Putzulu*, Stefan Hohaus*, Marco Lai*, Luana Fianchi*, Maria Bianchi*, Gina Zini, Simona Sica* and Livio Pagano*

Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Claudia I Chapuy, MD1*, Maria D Aguad, MT(ASCP)2*, Rachel T Nicholson, MLS(ASCP)CM3*, James P AuBuchon, MD4*, Claudia S Cohn, MD, PhD5*, Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH6*, Joan Cid, MD, PhD7*, Walter Dzik, MD8, Mark K. Fung, MD, PhD9*, Andreas Greinacher, MD10, Ai Leen Ang, MD11*, Dana V. Devine, PhD12, Nancy M Dunbar, MD13*, Henk Garritsen, MD14*, Lawrence T Goodnough, MD15, Ross Herron, MD16*, Tor A. Hervig, MD, PhD17*, C. Michael Knudson, MD, PhD18*, Jose M Kutner, MD, PhD19, Frank Nizzi, DO20*, Suchitra Pandey, MD21*, Benjamin Rioux-Masse, MD, FRCPC22, Kathleen Selleng, MD10*, Joseph Sweeney, MD23*, Minoko Takanashi, MD, Ph.D24*, Aaron A.R. Tobian, MD, PhD25*, Lorna Wall, MSc26*, Silvano Wendel, MD, PhD27*, David A Westerman28, Meredith Unger, PhD, MBA29*, Parul Doshi30*, Michael F. Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath31, Larry J. Dumont, PhD, MBA32, Richard M. Kaufman, MD2 and The BEST Collaborative33*

1St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA
2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
4Bloodworks Northwest, Seattle, WA
5University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
6Bloodworks Northwest, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
7Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
8Blood Transfuson Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
9University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
10Institute for Immunology & Transfusion Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
11Blood Services Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore
12Univ. of British Columbia, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, BC, Canada
13Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
14Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig gGmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
15Pathology and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
16American Red Cross Blood Services, Pomona, CA
17Haukeland universitetssjukehus, Bergen, Norway
18University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
19Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy Department, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil
20Blood Systems, Scottsdale, AZ
21Blood Centers of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA
22Department of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
23Blood Bank The Miriam Hospital, Barrington, RI
24Blood Service Headquarters, Japanese Red Cross, Tokyo, Japan
25John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
26New Zealand Blood Service, Auckland, New Zealand
27Hospital Sirio Libanes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
28Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
29Janssen, Inc., Raritan, NJ
30Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
31NHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford, United Kingdom
32Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
33Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH

Ding Wen Wu, MD, PhD*, Uehlinger Joan, MD*, Szymanski James, MD*, Mohandas Kala, MD*, Ronald Walsh, MD*, Sadiqa Karim, MD*, Evan Himchak, MD*, Ritu Gupta, MD* and Daniel Goldstein, MD*

Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY

Christine M. Cserti-Gazdewich, MD1, Jacob M Pendergrast, MD, FRCPC2, Yulia Lin, MD3, Jeannie Callum, MD3, Lani D. Lieberman, MD4*, Alioska Escorcia, MLT4* and Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, PhD5*

1Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology / Medical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
2Laboratory Medicine Program (Blood Transfusion Laboratory) & Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
3Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
4Blood Transfusion Laboratory, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
5Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Harold Clifford Sullivan, MD1*, Connie Maridith Arthur, PhD1, Seema Patel, PhD2*, Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD3, Alan H Lazarus, PhD4 and Sean R. Stowell, MD, PhD1

1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
3Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
4Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St.Michael's Hospital; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital; Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ajai Chari, MD1, Toshihisa Satta2*, Amit Tayal3*, Sundar Jagannath, MD4, Hearn Jay Cho, MD, PhD1, Samir Parekh, MD1, Kenneth Lau1*, Gillian Morgan1*, Donna Catamero5*, Juliet Escalon6*, Erika Florendo6*, Daniel Verina6*, Parul Doshi7*, Huaibao Feng8*, Clarissa Uhlar7*, Imran Khan8*, Tahamtan Ahmadi7, Peter M. Voorhees9, Maria-Victoria Mateos10 and Suzanne Arinsburg11*

1Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY
3Department of Clinical Pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
4Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
5The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
6Ruttenberg Treatment Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
7Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
8Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Raritan, NJ
9Division of Hematology/Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
10University Hospital of Salamanca/IBSAL, Salamanca, Spain
11Blood Bank and Transfusion Services, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Marisa B Marques, MD, Robinna G Lorenz, MD/PhD* and Lance A Williams, MD*

Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Brenda J Bendix, SBB1*, Eapen K. Jacob, MD1, Sara M Barnes1*, Craig Tauscher1*, Sandra Bryant, M.S.2*, James R Stubbs, MD1* and Dennis A. Gastineau, MD1,3

1Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
2Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
3Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

*signifies non-member of ASH