The American Association of Blood Banking (AABB) Annual Meeting is the must-attend event to learn about cutting-edge research, keep up with the latest technological advances, and network with like-minded transfusion medicine professionals from around the world. AABB is committed to providing continuing education that focuses on optimizing patient and donor care and safety. Michigan Medicine was well represented at this year’s meeting, held in San Antonio, TX:
Oral Abstracts
A Phase 1, Open-Label, Multi-Center, Dose Escalation Safety Trial of Lyophilized Platelets in Bleeding Thrombocytopenic Patients
—Dr. Robertson Davenport
Molecular and Other Testing: New Alleles, Antigens, and Methods
—Dr. Laura Cooling
Presentations
Navigating the Challenges of Monoclonal Antibodies and Transfusion Therapy, Flipped Classroom in Action: See One, Do One, Go Out and Teach One
—Dr. Laura Cooling
Emergency Event Planning in the Transfusion Service (Speaker)
—Terry Downs
Emergency Event Planning in the Transfusion Service (Program Director), What’s New with Reimbursement and Coding for Blood Products, Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies (Speaker)
—Suzanne Butch
Posters with contributors from MM Pathology
Case Report of Six Patients Demonstrating New Unexpected Antibodies Following Treatment with PD-1/PD-L1 Blocking Antibodies
—Sheri Hugan, Dr. Laura Cooling, Brian Novak, Dr. John Sherbeck:
Changes in anti-B with Enteral Nutrition, Diet and Probiotic Use in Children
—Dr. Laura Cooling, Dr. Helen Worrell, Sheri Hugan, Brian Novak
Manual Whole Blood Exchange in Two Pediatric Patients with Sever Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
—Dr. Laura Cooling, Dr. Sean Li, Sheri Hugan, Michelle Herrst
Type 1 CD36 Deficiency with Aberrant CD36 Bone Marrow Expression and Compound Heterozygosity for a CD36-Null and CD36-Weak Allele in an African American Male
—Dr. Laura Cooling, Dr. Helen Worrell, Dr. Bryan Betz, Dr. Charles Harmon, Dr. Thomas Wilson
Recognition acknowledgment by the AABB president at the keynote address
Dr. Laura Cooling for her work as a previous chair of the annual meeting program committee.
Committees
Coding and Reimbursement – Terry Downs
ON THE COVER
Breast team reviewing a patient's slide. (From left to right) Ghassan Allo, Fellow; Laura Walters, Clinical Lecturer; Celina Kleer, Professor. See Article 2014Department Chair |
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Autopsy Technician draws blood while working in the Wayne County morgue. See Article 2016Department Chair |
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Dr. Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD and Postdoctoral Fellow, Chan Chung, PhD investigate pediatric brain cancer. See Article 2017Department Chair |
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Director of the Neuropathology Fellowship, Dr. Sandra Camelo-Piragua serves on the Patient and Family Advisory Council. 2018Department Chair |
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Residents Ashley Bradt (left) and William Perry work at a multi-headed scope in our new facility. 2019Department Chair |
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Dr. Kristine Konopka (right) instructing residents while using a multi-headed microscope. 2020Department Chair |
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Patient specimens poised for COVID-19 PCR testing. 2021Department Chair |
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Dr. Pantanowitz demonstrates using machine learning in analyzing slides. 2022Department Chair |
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(Left to Right) Drs. Angela Wu, Laura Lamps, and Maria Westerhoff. 2023Department Chair |
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Illustration representing the various machines and processing used within our labs. 2024Department Chair |
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