NEWS AND EVENTS: CERUS ISBT SYMPOSIUM
Cerus Symposium: ISBT 2007 (Madrid, Spain - June 26, 2007)
A Single Pathogen Inactivation System for Two Blood Components: INTERCEPT Blood System for Platelets and Plasma
The symposium, “A Single Pathogen Inactivation System for Two Blood Components: INTERCEPT Blood System for Platelets and Plasma” was held as part of the XVIIth International ISBT Congress.
The INTERCEPT Blood System has
now been in routine use for several years in Europe, and with our recent CE mark for plasma
becomes the only system available for treating both platelets and plasma. This symposium featured
the experiences of Dr. Henschler, Dr. Castro and Prof. Cazenave as producers of INTERCEPT-treated
blood components.
Cerus Symposium: ISBT 2007 Programme and Webcast Videos (NOTE: each video will open a new browser window.) |
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| Welcome and introduction Dr. James P. AuBuchon (see bio below) |
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| Implementation in a High Volume Center:
in vitro Characteristics of INTERCEPT Plasma Dr. Reinhard Henschler (see bio below) |
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| Two Pathogen Inactivated Blood Products from One
Donation – Treatment of Platelets and Concurrent Plasma Dr. Emma Castro Izaguirre (see bio below) |
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| Synergy of INTERCEPT Platelets and Plasma in Routine Use Prof. Jean-Pierre Cazenave (see bio below) |
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| Wrap-up; Q&A Dr. James P. AuBuchon (see bio below) |
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| Symposium Book Download (PDF, 2.3 MB) (download now) |
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The Presenters
Dr. James P. AuBuchon
(Symposium Chair)
Professor & Chair of Pathology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
Dr. AuBuchon attended the University of Michigan for undergraduate work in
cellular biology and then for medical school before entering the fi eld of pathology.
He completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of
Wisconsin and was a Senior Staff Fellow in the Department of Transfusion Medicine
at the National Institutes of Health. Following his fellowship, Dr. AuBuchon served as
the director of several regional blood centers and the national headquarters of the
American Red Cross for 6 years.
Dr. AuBuchon came to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as the Medical Director
of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Service in 1990. He has pursued several lines
of research, continuing his work on component storage system improvement and
extending his interest in practical improvements in blood safety through defining the
cost-effectiveness of a variety of proposed interventions.
Dr. AuBuchon has served as the Pathology Residency Program Director for fourteen years and as chair of the Department of Pathology for six years. He served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1997-2000). He has served the American Association of Blood Banks as chair of the Scientific Section Coordinating Committee (1998-2002) and a district director (2003 – present) on the Board of Directors. He chairs the Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee of the College of American Pathologists. He chaired the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative fom 2002 to 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1999.
Dr. Reinhard Henschler
Head of Production Department
Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, German
Red Cross Blood Donor Center, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Dr. Henschler is Head of Department of
Production of Institute for Transfusion Medicine
and Immune Hematology, German Red Cross
Blood Donation Service, University Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany since 1999.
He studied Medicine in the Medical School
of Würzburg University and Mainz University,
Germany.
Dr. Henschler has extensive experience in experimental haematology, internal medicine and laboratory medicine.
He was Head of stem cell laboratory at Freiburg
University Medical Center before joining the
German Red Cross in Frankfurt in 1999.
Dr. Henschler has published over 40 papers in
scientific journals.
Dr. Emma Castro Izaguirre
Medical Director & CEO
Spanish Red Cross Blood Center of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Castro studied medicine at the La Laguna
University, Spain and obtained the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1981. She became
a Medical Specialist in Hematology and
Hemotherapy at Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu
Hospital, San Sebastian, Spain from 1982-
1985. Dr. Castro was awarded the Medical
Licenses in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 3282
(1986) and Madrid 6828 (1995).
Dr. Castro was a medical Resident at the
Haematology and Blood Bank Department;
Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu Hospital, San
Sebastian, Spain from 1981-1986. She was
an attending physician at the Haematology
Department and the Blood Bank Director;
Nuestra Señora del Pino Hospital, Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain from 1986-1995.
Dr. Castro became the Medical Director of the Spanish Red Cross Blood Center of Madrid (Centro de Transfusión de Cruz Roja Española), Spain in 1995 and has held the position of CEO since 1996.
Dr. Castro has extensive experience in blood
banking and transfusion medicine and has
published extensively in the field of transfusion
safety.
Prof. Jean-Pierre Cazenave
Director EFS Alsace
Etablissement Français du Sang, France
Jean-Pierre Cazenave was born in L’Aigle,
France, on May 6th 1943.
He studied medicine at the School of Medicine
of Caen, Normandy, France. He was a Resident
in hematology at Strasbourg University Hospital
and obtained is MD degree in 1970 at the
University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg.
He moved to Canada where he lived for
8 years. He joined the research group of
Professor J.F. Mustard at Mac Master University,
Hamilton, Ontario, where he worked on
platelet physiology and pharmacology. He
obtained a PhD degree and was appointed
Assistant Professor of Pathology. He returned
to Strasbourg, France in 1978 at the Blood
Transfusion Center. He created an INSERM
research unit in 1986 devoted to the Biology
and Pharmacology of Hemostasis and
Thrombosis. Since 1987, he has been the
Director of the Blood Transfusion Center in
Strasbourg.
He has more recently devoted his research to
experimental models of platelet transfusion and
to clinical studies of pathogen inactivation of
blood components.
He is Professor of Hematology and Transfusion at University Louis Pasteur, Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, member of several international societies and author of 500 publications.
He has been elected as corresponding member
(3rd Division, Biological Sciences) of the
Académie Nationale de Médecine. Paris,
February 22, 2005.
