Aim of the webinar:
This webinar aims to expose attendees to the Cellular Therapy landscape in LMICs including challenges, success, insights and future perspectives.
What knowledge is required?
Fundamental Awareness (basic knowledge)
Target audience
- Scientists
- Blood Bankers
- Transfusion Practitioners
- Clinicians
The Speaker
Ashenafi Tazebew Amare
Juan Manuel Cisneros Carrasco
The Moderator:
Quentin Eichbaum
Professor Eichbaum was born and raised in Namibia and South Africa. He was educated and trained at Harvard Medical School and MIT in science, medicine and public health (MD, PhD, MPH), followed by two research postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, and a
clinical transfusion medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he was also briefly on faculty. He was then recruited to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as Assistant Dean for Program Development and Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Medical Education and Administration. At Vanderbilt, he developed and directed a fellowship program in transfusion medicine, and directed the Pathology Program in Global Health, and the Vanderbilt Pathology Education Research Group. He also developed and directed a unique program in medical humanities situated in learning communities. IN 2025, he was recruited to the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in west New York as vice chair of pathology and laboratory medicine and director or transfusion medicine and blood banking.
He has done extensive work in transfusion medicine, global health, medical education, and medical humanities. He is active is global transfusion and 2017 founded the AABB Global Transfusion Forum and currently serves as chair of its Education Committee. In
medical education, he founded and has served on the board of both the Consortium of New Sub-Sahara African Medical Schools (CONSAMS) and the Consortium of Pan African Medical Diasporas (COPAMD) .In global health, he founded chaired several committees and served on the board of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). In medical humanities, he co-founded and chaired the International Health Humanities Consortium (HHC) and currently chairs the CUGH Global Health Humanities Working Group. He serves on numerous other national and international committees and Boards in global health, medicine, and humanities. He has published over 160 articles and book chapters, as well as five books in clinical medicine, and two in medical humanities.
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