Cord Blood use for Transfusions: Present update

03 Oct 2025

Aim of the webinar:

The aim of this webinar to provide an update on the use of cord blood for clinical transfusion as well as the challenges and knowledge gaps that still lay ahead.

Level of education required:

4 (basic and applied knowledge of transfusion medicine should be available).

References

Maria Bianchi, Patrizia Papacci et al. Umbilical cord blood as a source for red-blood-cell transfusion in neonatology: a systematic review. Vox Sanguinis 2018;113:713-125

Target audience

Neonatologists, pediatricians, transfusion practitioners, scientists, blood bankers, Master or PhD students

The Speakers

Elise Huisman

Pediatric Hematologist, Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Elise Huisman

Pediatric Hematologist, Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Dr. Elise Huisman works as a Pediatric Hematologist and Pediatric Transfusion Specialist in the Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center. She also works for Sanquin, the Dutch Blood Supply, at the department of Transfusion Medicine. She is an active member of the Dutch Network for Pediatric Transfusions (KINT)

Satyam Arora

ISBT Regional Director South East Asia, Clinical Transfusion Working Party Secretary, Paediatric Subgroup Chair, Additional Professor, Transfusion Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Child Health, Noida, India

Satyam Arora

ISBT Regional Director South East Asia (2024-2028), 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

Richard R. Gammon

Clinical Transfusion Working Party Chair, Medical Director, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida USA

Richard R. Gammon

Clinical Transfusion Working Party Chair, Medical Director, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida USA

Dr. Richard Gammon is the Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine and the Blood Bank at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. He received his medical degree at Drexel University. He completed residency training in Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University and fellowship training in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Dr. Gammon has board certifications in Clinical Pathology as well as Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. He is a member of the faculty of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine faculty and the University of South Florida. Dr. Gammon is active in AABB, ISBT as the Clinical Transfusion Working Party chair and the President of the South Central Association of Blood Banks.

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