The Centre for Blood Research is hosting its 4th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on April 16, 2015. The symposium honors Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who pioneered mobile blood collection and universal healthcare in the 1930s. Participants can learn about advances in HIV treatment, rapid HIV diagnostics, hemophilia therapies, and platelet disorders. The full-day event will include presentations from scientists and clinicians on these topics, as well as poster sessions, awards, and a social gathering.
The Centre for Blood Research is hosting its 4th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on April 16, 2015. The symposium honors Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who pioneered mobile blood collection and universal healthcare in the 1930s. Participants can learn about advances in HIV treatment, rapid HIV diagnostics, hemophilia therapies, and platelet disorders. The full-day event will include presentations from scientists and clinicians on these topics, as well as poster sessions, awards, and a social gathering.
The Centre for Blood Research is hosting its 4th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on April 16, 2015. The symposium honors Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who pioneered mobile blood collection and universal healthcare in the 1930s. Participants can learn about advances in HIV treatment, rapid HIV diagnostics, hemophilia therapies, and platelet disorders. The full-day event will include presentations from scientists and clinicians on these topics, as well as poster sessions, awards, and a social gathering.
The Centre for Blood Research is hosting its 4th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on April 16, 2015. The symposium honors Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who pioneered mobile blood collection and universal healthcare in the 1930s. Participants can learn about advances in HIV treatment, rapid HIV diagnostics, hemophilia therapies, and platelet disorders. The full-day event will include presentations from scientists and clinicians on these topics, as well as poster sessions, awards, and a social gathering.
"I have an idea - I think we should organize an ambulant blood transfusion service."
Norman
Bethune
1936
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Segal Building, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC Dr.
(Henry)
Norman
Bethune
(1890-1939)
was
a
Canadian
physician
who
in
the
1930s
spearheaded
the
implementa;on
of
the
rst
prac;cal
mobile
blood
collec;on
and
distribu;on
system
and
promoted
universal
access
to
health
care.
This
symposium
is
held
in
his
honour
and
will
be
informa;ve
and
entertaining,
with
par;cipa;on
of
a
full
range
of
scien;sts
and
clinicians
at
all
levels
of
training.
What
you
can
expect
to
achieve
from
this
symposium:
Gain
new
knowledge
of
advances
in
personalized
treatment
of
HIV
Acquire
new
knowledge
on
rapid
diagnosGcs
for
HIV
Acquire
new
insights
into
future
therapies
for
hemophilia
and
bleeding
disorders
Gain
new
knowledge
on
platelet
funcGon
and
related
disorders
7:15 - 7:50 Registration, coffee & poster set-up
7:50 8:00 Ed Conway, UBC Hlne Ct. UBC
Introductory remarks Chair of Morning Sessions
8:00 - 8:35 Steven Deeks, UC San Francisco HIV Cure: Are we making progress or just a lot of noise? 8:35 9:10 Priscilla Hsue, UC San Francisco "HIV, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Disease" 9:10 9:45 Deborah Money, UBC "Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV; successess and remaining challenges" 9:45 10:25 Coffee/Posters 10:25 10:55 Julien Bergeron, Guinevere Lee, Matthew Budd (10' each) 10:55 11:25 Richard Harrigan, UBC "Personalized therapeutic approaches for HIV" 11:25 11:55 Hlne Ct, UBC "Accelerated cellular aging in HIV" 11:55 12:30 Shot-gun abstract presentations 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch + posters + discussion John Wu, UBC
Chair of Afternoon Sessions
1:30 2:05 Victor Blanchette, University of Toronto, "Childhood Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Unanswered Questions" 2:05 2:40 Patrick Provost, Universit Laval "Platelet and HIV-1-derived microRNAs" 2:40 2:50 Erica Crilly, UBC "Bleeding patterns in Children in their first 2 years of life" 2:50 3:10 Linda Sun, UBC "Factor IX Deficiency with Inhibitor in a Jehovah's Witness Patient" 3:10 4:00 Coffee/Posters 4:00 4:35 Shannon Meeks, Emory University "Hemophilia A: moving towards individualized treatment of patients with inhibitors" 4:35 5:15 Georges-Etinne Rivard, Universit de Montral, "The Quebec Platelet Disorder: When more is too much" 5:15 - 6:30 Wrap-up, awards, social time / drinks / cheese
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