Live Sessions Pre-Conference Day: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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8:00am – 9:00am Expert Lounges Join us for roundtable discussions with experts in the field.

TBC

4:00pm – 6:00pm Welcome Reception | Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall & Poster Hall

Day 1: Thursday, September 24, 2020

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7:00am – 9:00am Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall

9:00am – 9:05am Opening Symposium Opening Remarks ASFA President & Organizing Chair, Antonia Hagen-Coonradt, RN, BSB

9:05am – 9:25am Opening Symposium My Journey as a Sickle Cell Disease Patient: A Patient Perspective

Rona Wiggins

9:25am – 9:55am Opening Symposium Evolving Landscape of Drug Therapy in Sickle Cell Disease

Kenneth Ataga, MD

9:55am – 10:25am Opening Symposium Next Generation Therapy: Cell and Gene Therapy

Krish Lakshmanan, MD

10:25am – 10:55am Break | Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall

10:55am – 11:25am Opening Symposium Challenges and Complications in Transfusion Support for Sickle Cell Disease

Sean Stowell, MD, PHD

11:25am – 11:55am Opening Symposium New Avenues In RBCX: Depletion Exchange & Plasma-to-Red Cell Exchange

Nicole De Simone, MD, MPH

12:15pm – 1:15pm Concurrent Corporate Symposia

12:15pm – 1:15pm Concurrent Corporate Symposia

1:15pm – 2:15pm Education Session ASFA Forum Live – Ask the Experts

Panelists: Andrew Nord, PA-C, MT(ASCP), QIA Kira Geile, MSN, RN, CPNP, Laura Connelly-Smith, MBBCh, DM, Steven Sloan, MD, PhD, Tomas Armendariz, BSN, RN,

CMSRN, QIA (ASCP), Laurie Wolf, BSN, RN, HP

2:15pm – 3:15pm Francis S. Morrison, MD Memorial Lecture

Francis S. Morrison, MD Memorial Lecture Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski, MD, PhD,

FCAP

3:15pm – 3:30pm Closing Remarks

ASFA President & Organizing Chair, Antonia Hagen-Coonradt, RN, BSB

Day 2: Friday, September 25, 2020

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7:00am – 7:45am Concurrent Corporate Symposia

7:00am – 7:45am Concurrent Corporate Symposia

8:00am – 8:05am Education Session Opening Remarks ASFA President & Organizing Chair, Antonia Hagen-Coonradt, RN, BSB

8:05am – 10:00am Education Session Vascular Access – Tips & Tricks/Best Practices TBC

10:00am – 10:30am Education Session The Well-being of the Apheresis Practitioner – How to Tame Stress and Avoid Burnout

Marisa Saint Martin, MD,

ACC, FCAP

10:30am – 11:00am Break | Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall

11:00am – 11:30am Education Session Retention in the Clinical Arena- How Do We Engage Our Apheresis Experts

Tomas Armendariz, BSN, RN,

CMSRN, QIA (ASCP)

11:30am – 12:00pm AABB/ASFA Joint Session

Explore the Areas of Unregulated and Unproven Cellular Therapy and Their Public Health Impacts

Joseph Schwartz, MD, MPH

12:00pm – 12:30pm AABB/ASFA Joint Session

Review Donor Eligibility and Suitability for Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation

Laura Connelly-Smith, MBBCh, DM

12:45pm – 1:45pm Concurrent Corporate Symposia

12:45pm – 1:45pm Concurrent Corporate Symposia

2:00pm – 2:20pm Closing Symposium: Cellular Therapy

State of the Science Vijay Bhoj, MD

2:20pm – 2:40pm Closing Symposium: Cellular Therapy

Variation in Immune Effector Cell Therapy Apheresis Requirements

Suzanne Thibodeaux, MD,

PhD

2:40pm – 3:00pm Closing Symposium: Cellular Therapy

Highlighting The Central Role of Apheresis in Immune Effector Cell Therapy

Nicole Aqui, MD

3:00pm – 3:20pm Closing Symposium: Cellular Therapy

The Role of the Apheresis Procedure Rn in Cellular Collections: 10 Years Ago and Now!

Mylene Macabeo, RN, BSN,

HP, (ASCP) & Jodie Errington, BSN, RN

3:20pm – 3:40pm Closing Symposium: Cellular Therapy

Care and Considerations in Apheresis Cellular Collections - the APN / PA Perspective

Andrew Nord, PA-C,

MT(ASCP), QIA

3:40pm – 3:50pm Closing Remarks & Next Meeting

ASFA President & Organizing Chair, Antonia Hagen-Coonradt, RN, BSB & Walter Linz, MD, President-Elect

4:00pm – 5:00pm Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall