Scotblood 2019 Conference

This year, we are pleased to welcome a variety of internationally renowned speakers discussing the latest scientific news and developments affecting the ever-changing fields of transfusion and transplantation science.

Registration website: www.regonline.co.uk/scotblood19

Thursday 6th June

8:30 – 9:30 Coffee, Registration, and Setting up of Posters

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction – Mr Colin Sinclair, NSS

10:00 - 12:00 Plenary Session I – The Introduction of Advanced Therapeutics

• Introducing the Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres – Mrs Anna Outhwaite, Catapult
• The Challenges of Getting ATMP to Market – Dr Jacqueline Barry, Catapult
• Delivering the MATCH Trial – MATCH team, SNBTS

12:00 - 14:00 Opening of Commercial Exhibition, Lunch and poster viewing

14:00 - 15:30 Plenary Session II – SNBTS & Sickle Cell Disease

• Sickle Cell Disease an overview – Dr Louisa McIlwane, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
• Sickle Cell and SNBTS – Dr Kenny Douglas, SNBTS

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea, poster viewing, commercial exhibition

16:00 - 17:30 Plenary Session III– New Advances in Transfusion & Transplantation

• CRISPR SCD Clinical Trial - The Cure for Sickle Cell Disease? – Dr John Chapin, CrisprTX
• New Blood Components – (TBC)

18:45 – Midnight Reception, “Scottish Larder” Buffet Dinner and Disco

Friday 7th June

8:30 – 9:15 Coffee, Registration, and Setting up of Posters

09:15 – 10:45 Plenary Session IV – Digitalisation and the Benefits in Blood Collection

• Digital Transformation & Expectation – Mrs Mary Morgan, NSS
• Digital Modernisation Programme – Mrs Lynne Willdigg & Mrs Debbie McNaughton, SNBTS
• eProgesa - Online Donor Health Questionnaire, the Benefits and the Challenges - Gretchen Conerly
• Digital Improvements and Modernisation - Mr Paul Wilkins, Welsh Blood Service

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/tea, poster judging & viewing, commercial exhibition

11:15 - 12:30 Plenary Session V – More New Advances in Transfusion & Transplantation

• Fertility Preservation and Restoration – Prof Richard Smith, Lister Hospital
• Familial Pseudohyperkalaemia – Dr Helen New (TBC)
• Copland Lifetime Achievement Award – Mr George Brown, SNBTS

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch, poster viewing, commercial exhibition

14:00 - 16:00 Concurrent Sessions - incorporating presentations from selected abstracts

• Patient Services - BBT
• Donor Services
• Tissues Cells & Advanced Therapeutics