Presentations

Welcome [PDF]

Bruce D. Spiess, M.D.

Professor, Anesthesiology and Emerging Medicine

Director, VCU Reanimation engineering Shock Center (VCURES)

Co-Director, PET project

VCU Medical Center

History of Transfusion: A Look at the Past and Glimpse of the Future [PDF]

Richard K. Spence, M.D., FACS

Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs

Infonate Inc.

West Chester, Pa.

The Implications of Outcome Trials for Transfusion [PDF]

Dean Fergusson, M.H.A., Ph.D.

Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute

Asst. Prof, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ontario, Canada

Current Risks of Transfusion: What changed: Immunomodulation and TRALI [PDF]

Neil Blumberg, M.D.

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director, Clinical Laboratories, Strong Memorial Hospital

Director, Transfusion Medicine/Blood Bank

University of Rochester Medical Center

Oxygen is Good and Blood goes Round and Round: The True Physiologic basis for Transfusion [PDF]

Kevin R. Ward, M.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine, Physiology and Biochemistry

Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine

VCU Medical Center

Associate Director, VCURES

The Role of the Transfusion Committee in a Transfusion Excellence Program [PDF]

Susan D. Roseff, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine

Co-Director, PET Project

VCU Medical Center

Techniques to Maximize Blood Conversion [PDF]

Jeffrey A. Green, M.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

VCU Medical Center

Lessons Learned from the Jehovah's Witnesses [PDF]

Aryeh Shander, M.D.

Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Pain Management and Hyperbaric Medicine

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, NY

A CEO's Perspective [PDF]

Tim Morgan

CEO/Partner

The Rush/Morgan Group

The Transfusion Decision [PDF]

Bruce D. Spiess, M.D.