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Aim of the webinar:
Provide listeners with valuable insights into the topic of granulocyte transfusions including indications, uses, collection and processing techniques. This webinar will include international speakers giving perspectives from across the globe.
Level of education required:
Level 2 - 5 (novice to expert).
Prior knowledge required:
Prior knowledge on the basics of the topic would be advantageous but not required.
Target audience:
Scientists, blood bankers, transfusion practitioners, master and PhD students, physicians.
The Speakers:
Caroline Canté
Caroline Canté is a young professional in the field of Transfusion Medicine.
She is trained as a consultant of general internal medicine. Since 2023 she is a Transfusion specialist in training at Sanquin Blood Supply in Amsterdam.
She is trained as a consultant of general internal medicine. Since 2023 she is a Transfusion specialist in training at Sanquin Blood Supply in Amsterdam.
Satyam Arora
ISBT Regional Director South East Asia, Additional Professor, Transfusion Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Child Health (PGICH), Noida, India
Dr Satyam Arora, MBBS, MD (Transfusion Medicine), CABP (AABB) completed his MD in 2012 from the prestigious Post Graduate Institute Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He established a pediatric transfusion-focused academic transfusion medicine department at a stand-alone children’s hospital (under the Government) in India and currently working there as an additional professor. He is presently working to establish a dedicated pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant and cell therapy centre at the same institute.
He has done various international rotations (observerships) in hematopoietic stem cell transplants (Cleveland Clinic, USA) and Cell Therapy (Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor Medical Center, USA). He is a member of the Technical Resource Group (TRG) on blood transfusion services (BTS) under the Directorate General Health Services under the Government of India and an expert member of India's National Donor Vigilance Program. He has been a member of ISBT since 2012 and was a founder member, past chairperson and South-East Asia representative with the Young Professional Council (YPC) of ISBT. Presently he is secretary of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party, co-chair of the Pediatric Transfusions subgroup of ISBT and member of the Hemovigilance Working Party. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards such as “Dr Harold Gunson” Fellowship (2012), the ISBT TTID Working Party Travel Award for Young Scientists (2014), “Young Scientist Award” by the Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine 2021and “Narendra S Bagaria Award” by the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology (2022). His areas of interest are pediatric transfusions, hematopoietic stem cell transplants, apheresis science and hemovigilance.
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The Moderator:
Champa Manchanayake
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