Pediatric BMT Program

THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 25

A parallel track of sessions on hematopoietic stem cell transplants for children and adolescents will be held throughout the day on Thursday, February 25, at the 2010 BMT Tandem Meetings in Orlando.  The programs are coordinated by the ASBMT Pediatric BMT Special Interest Group and the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium (PBMTC).  The program Chair is Laurence J.N. Cooper, MD, PhD and the Vice Chair is Shalini Shenoy, MD.

8:30 am - 10:30 am Plenary Session
Severe Sickle Cell Disease:  Pathophysiology and Therapy
Shalini Shenoy, MD, Co-Chair
   ■ Natural History of Acute and Chronic Organ Injury in Sickle Cell Disease
         George Buchanan, MD
   ■ Medical Management of Sickle Cell Disease
         Mark Walters, MD
   ■ Stem Cell Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease
         Shalini Shenoy, MD
   ■ Trajectory of Disease Progression in Adulthood:  The Case For Novel Interventions
         Lakshmanan Krishnamurthi, MD

10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Haplo-Indentical Transplantation in Children
Ann Woolfrey, MD, Co-Chair
   ■ T-Replete Haplo-Identical HCT Pre-Transplant Tolerization
         Eva Guinan, MD
   ■ T-Replete Haplo-Identical HCT Post-Transplant Cylophosphamide
         Leo Luznik, MD
   ■ Reduced Intensity Haplo-Identical Transplant
         Rupert Handgretinger, MD

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Pediatric International Session and Luncheon 
Sandeep Soni, MD, Co-Chair
   ■ Challenges and Prospects for International Collaborations:  Developing Countries Perspectives
         Ricardo Pasquini, MD
   ■ Challenges and Prospects for International Collaborations:  EBMT Perspective
         Christina Peters, MD

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Immunotherapy for CNS Tumors
Sharon Gardner, MD, Co-Chair
   ■ Immunotherapy for CNS Tumors
         Sharon Gardner, MD
   ■ Adoptive Cellular Therapy for Brain Tumors
         Nabil Ahmed, MD
   ■ Molecularly Targeted Vaccine Strategies for Adult and Pediatric Patients with Glioma
         Hideho Okada, MD, PhD

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Biology and Treatment of Histiocytic Disorders
Alexandra Filipovich, MD, Co-Chair
   ■ Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
         Alexandra Filipovich, MD
   ■ Macrophage Activation Syndrome
         Alexei Grom, MD
   ■ New Insights Into Longerhams Cell Histiocytosis
         Kenneth McClain, MD, PhD

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Long Term Consequences of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation:  Current State of the Science
K. Scott Baker, MD, MS, Co-Chair
   ■ Late Mortality and Burden of Morbidity after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
         Smita Bhatia, MD
   ■ Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
         K. Scott Baker, MD, MS
   ■ Role of Genetic Susceptibility in the Development of Cardiac Complications after HCT
         Saro Armenian, MD

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Pediatric Oral Abstracts

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Pediatric Posters  (Included in Poster Session I)