45th "ADVANCES IN HAEMATOLOGY" COURSE 2013

Wednesday 16th – Friday 18th October 2013

COURSE PROGRAMME

Wednesday 16th October 2013 / Thursday 17th October 2013 / Friday 18th October 2013
Acute Leukaemia
CHAIR Professor Letizia Foroni / Lymphoma and Myeloma
CHAIR Dr Donald MacDonald / MPN/MDS
CHAIR Professor Jane Apperley
0935-1010 / Dr Elisabeth Paietta
Our Lady of Mercy Cancer Center, New York.
Flow cytometry for the diagnosis of haematological malignancies / 0930-1005 / Dr Andre Marc
Centre Hospitalier Notre Dame, Belgium
Advances in the management of Hodgkin’s disease / 0930-1005 / Professor Ghulam Mutfi
King’s College London, UK
Myelodysplastic syndromes
1005-1040 / Dr Haferlach Thorsten
Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Germany
ALL: Diagnostics of acute leukaemias: interaction of phenotyping and genetic methods / 1005-1040 / Professor Anthony Goldstone
University College London Hospital, UK
Sir David Galton Memorial Lecture
Advances in the management of NHL / 1005-1040 / Dr Michaela Fontenau
Hopital Cochin, Paris, France
Advances in the understanding of the role of spliceosomes in haematological malignancies
1040-1100 / Coffee / 1040-1100 / Coffee / 1040-1100 / Coffee
1110-1140 / Dr Tim Somervaille
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester
How do fusion oncoproteins cause leukaemia / 1100-1140 / Professor Robin Foa
University “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Derek Johnson Memorial Lecture
Advances in the diagnosis and management of CLL / 1100-1140 / Dr Mary Frances McMullin
Belfast Queen University, Northern Ireland
Myeloproliferative disorders
1140-1220 / Professor Jacob Rowe
Rambam Medical Center, U.S.A.
Advances in the management of AML / 1140-1220 / Professor Pier Luigi Zinzani
University of Bologna, Italy
Marginal zone lymphoma advances / 1140-1220
1220-1300 / Professor Jane Apperley
Imperial College London, UK
Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia
Dr Dragana Milojkovic
Imperial College London, UK
Side effects and complications of CML
1230-1330 / CASE PRESENTATIONS – STAFF ROUND, WOLFSON CENTRE
Coagulation Case
Haematology Case / 1220-1300
1300-1330 / Dr Gordon Cook
St James’s University Hospital
Myeloma therapy
CASE PRESENTATIONS
Donald MacDonald/Irene Roberts / 1300-1330 / CASE PRESENTATIONS
Dr Dragana Milojkovic/ Professor Francesco Dazzi
1330-1430 / Lunch / 1330-1430 / Lunch / 1330-1415 / Lunch
Thrombosis and Haemostasis
CHAIR Dr Carolyn Millar / Non Malignant and Paediatric Haematology
CHAIR Professor Irene Roberts / Transplantation and Immunotherapy
CHAIR Professor Francesco Dazzi
1430-1510 / Professor Denisa Wagner
Boston Children’s Hospital, U.S.A
Sir John Dacie Memorial Lecture
Neutrophil extracellular traps in the aetiology of thrombosis / 1430-1500 / Dr Nichola Cooper
Imperial College London, UK
Platelets / 1415-1445 / Professor Barbara Bain
Imperial College London, UK
Haematology Quiz
1510-1550 / Dr Ton Lisman
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
The complex coagulopathy of liver failure / 15000-1540 / Professor John Porter
University College Hospital, London, UK
Modern management of iron overload in haematological disorders / 1445-1520 / Professor David Marks
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation, Bristol, UK
Adult ALL: Is transplantation still a solution to a difficult problem?
1550-1610 / Tea / 1540-1600 / Tea / 1520-1600 / Dr Anna Sureda
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
The role of allograft in lymphoma
1610-1650 / Dr Carolyn Millar
Imperial College London, UK
New anticoagulants / 1600-1630 / Dr Josu de la Fuente
Imperial College London, UK
Advances in bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of haemoglobinopathies in children / 1600-1630 / Professor Barbara Bain
Imperial College London, UK
Haematology Quiz - Answers
1700-1830 / Evening Reception / 1630 / Prof Apperley: Concluding remarks