ISBT Milan 2025

Training the next generation of immunohematologists is a strategic priority today for transfusion services and blood collectors worldwide. This interactive workshop invites attendees to discuss current efforts, challenges, and opportunities to strengthen our collective future immunohematology workforce. In addition to ISBT mentoring programs, this workshop will discuss local success stories and innovative approaches, with a focus on strategies to transfer knowledge and skills across distant regions of the world. Recent pilot initiatives to remotely establish self-sustaining expertise and capabilities in Latin American and African countries will be explored interactively at the workshop. 

• Date: Monday 2 June, 08:30-10:00
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Celina Montemayor-Garcia, Esmeralda Campos Aquirre, Chinelo Onyenekwu
• Workshop organiser: Celina Montemayor
• Access: Open

This workshop would be seeking to make participants recognize the role of ethics in their everyday professional decision-making by making use of vignettes/case studies. 
By applying ethical principles to real world scenarios, participants would be encouraged to develop critical thinking skills to analyze situations and make informed decisions aligned with the ISBT Code of Ethics.

• Date: Monday, June 2, 13:45 - 15:15
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Birgit Gathof, Hirokazu Tsuno, Jean-Baptiste Thibert, Shirley Owusu-Ofori
• Workshop organiser: Mindy Goldman
• Access: Open

This workshop will be an opportunity to work through a selection of interactive complex case studies encountered in the immunohaematology reference laboratory. Delegates will be encouraged to participate via interactive quiz tools and contribute to what is sure to be a lively discussion on hot topics.

• Date: Monday 2 June, 15:45 - 17:15
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Shane Grimsley, Sofia Lejon Crottet, Peter Ligthart
• Workshop organiser: Nicole Thornton 
• Access: Open

Educating the Educators – Transfusion Practitioners (TP) lead on the transfusion education for clinical colleagues within their organisation – nurses, doctors midwives. But to ensure that current and relevant information is delivered, the TPs need access to high quality training and development resources for themselves . What is available to them and how is this achievable?

• Date: Tuesday 3 June, 08:30 - 10:00
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Rachel Moss, Anne Canty
• Workshop organiser: Rachel Moss 
• Access: Open

Being able to review, critique and analyze scientific literature is a key skill, given the high numbers and large range of papers which are published daily.  RCTs are often regarded as ‘gold standard’ in research, but how do we judge whether an RCT was well designed? How do we know if the study results are reliable and relevant? In this interactive workshop, experts from the ISBT/Systematic Reviews Initiative “Transfusion Evidence Round-Up” program and “Talking Transfusion” podcast will guide participants through the process of how to critically review scientific papers, with a particular focus on RCTs. There will be small group breakout sessions led by workshop facilitators, in which participants will work through example papers. 

• Date: Tuesday 3 June, 13:45 - 15:15
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Erica Wood, Catriona Parker, Lise Estcourt
• Workshop organiser: Allison Mo
• Access: Open

"Being a leader in transforming knowledge into practice” is a major ISBT strategic goal. Following a dedicated plenary session and 1rst workshop at the Barcelona Congress last year, an ad hoc ISBT study group has initiated several projects to provide tools and expertise regarding knowledge implementation. This workshop will be an opportunity to learn about and contribute to these projects, thereby strengthening our ability to translate knowledge into practice.

• Date: Tuesday June 3, 13:45 - 15:15
• Location: AMBER 5+6
• Facilitators: Simon Stanworth, Pierre Tiberghien, Arwa Al Riyami, Erica Wood 
• Workshop organiser: Pierre Tiberghien
• Access: Open

On 17 July 2024, the new Regulation on standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The new Regulation will apply as from 7 August 2027, 3 years after its publication and entry into force. The ISBT Working Party of Quality Management will organise a workshop to familiarize participants with the requirements of the New Regulation, discuss the benefits and challenges, and facilitate its implementation. 
 

• Date: Wednesday June 4, 08:30 - 10:00
• Location: AMBER 5+6 
• Facilitators: Pupella Simonetta, Tomislav Vuk, Christian Seidl
• Workshop organiser: Nigar Ertuğrul Õrüç
• Access: Open