Education Book Goes to Press
for BMT Tandem Meetings

The Education Book for the 2007 BMT Tandem Meetings has gone to press.  Eighteen session and workshop chairs have prepared chapters that comprise the Education Book that will be published as a supplement to the January 2007 issue of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 

This will be the third year that an Education Book has been published for the meetings and supported by an education grant from Amgen.

The editor for this year’s Education Book is Helen Heslop, MD, chair of the ASBMT Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee and co-chair of the meeting’s Organizing Committee.  She is director of Adult Stem Cell Transplantation at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

The chapters are:

• Advances in Chronic GvHD:  Confronting Our Greatest Challenge, Steven D. Pavlectic, MD 
• Regulatory T-Cells:  History, Laboratory and Clinical Uses, Nelson J. Chao, MD
• Lymphoid Reconstruction and Vaccines, Laurence J. N. Cooper, MD 
• Dendritic Cells in Transplantation and Immune-Based Therapies, James W. Young, MD
• Adoptive Therapy with T-Cells/NK Cells, Jeffrey S. Miller, MD
• Endothelial Biology and Bone Marrow, Gay M. Crooks, MD, BS 
• Cancer Stem Cells:  From Bench to Bedside, Richard J. Jones, MD 
• Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Edwin M. Horwitz, MD, PhD 
• Emerging Targets of HCT:  Genetic Disorders of Hematopoiesis and Immunity, Alexandra H. Filipovich, MD
• Philadelphia Chromosome-Negative Myeloproliferative Disorders:  Biology and Treatment, Ronald Hoffman, MD, and Joseph Prchal, MD 
• Allogeneic Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors:  How To Progress in the Field, Didier Blaise, MD, and Marco Bregni, MD
• Graft Biology:  Marrow vs. Peripheral Blood vs. Cord Blood, Richard E. Champlin, MD 
• Optimal Donor Selection:  Beyond HLA, Dennis L. Confer, MD
• Reduced-Intensity Conditioning for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation:  Current Perspectives,  Stephen Mackinnon, MD, and Brenda Sandmaier, MD 
• Measures of Morbidity:  Functional Assessment and Cytokines, Sergio Giralt, MD
• Contingency Planning for Pandemics/Bioterrorism 
      Radiation Emergencies:  Evaluation, Management and
         Transplantation,  Daniel Weisdorf, MD, Jane Apperley,
         MBChB, John Wingard, MD and Nelson Chao, MD  
      Facing the Next Pandemic:  Ready or Not, John Wingard, MD 
• New Technologies to Visualize T-Cell Function:  A Picture Tells a Thousand Words, John Barrett, MD

Associate editors for the 2007 Education Book are:

    John Barrett, MD, National Institute of Health
    Laurence J. N. Cooper, MD, City of Hope National Medical Center
    Gay M. Crooks, MD, BS, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
    Edwin M. Horwitz, MD, PhD, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital 
    Alana Kennedy-Nasser, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
    James W. Young, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

In addition to publication as a BBMT supplement, the Education Book will be enclosed with the registration materials that will be received by attendees at the BMT Tandeum Meetings.