• Topics of interest to professionals in blood bank, clinical, and medical settings
• Some offered at more than one Michigan Blood location
• Continuing Education contact/credit hours
• Sessions range from 75 to 90 minutes in length
• Offered free as a service to the professional community

You must register separately for each conference you plan to attend, by calling at least two days in advance the location hosting the session, as follows:

• Grand Rapids – Call Education Coordinator, 616-233-8576 or 1-866-MIBLOOD (642-5663)
• Saginaw – Call Laboratory Operations Manager, 989-755-5387 or 1-866-MIBLOOD (642-5663)
• Traverse City – Call Operations Manager, 231-935-3030 or 1-866-MIBLOOD

Key to Sponsors

• ASCP - American Society of Clinical Pathologists (1.0 CME/CMLE credit hr per session)
• AABB - American Association of Blood Banks (1.5 CME/CMLE credit hr per session)
• GU - Georgetown University (1.5 ABHI Continuing Education Credits per session)

2010 Schedule

All Times = Eastern Time

• February 24 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Problem Solving: It’s Not All About the Reactions” (AABB)
• March 9 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Elutions: Applications, Methods, and Clinical Relevance” (ASCP)
• March 31 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Molecular Approaches to Rh Problems” (AABB)
• April 28 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Update on Platelet Transfusions” (AABB)
• May 5 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Addressing Common Citations: AABB and CAP” (AABB)
• May 11 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Non-RBC Components: Hemotherapy Decisions and Management of Transfusion Reactions” (ASCP)
• May 14 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Legal Aspects of Phlebotomy” (ASCP)
• May 19 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Effective Auditing of Blood Ordering and Utilization” (AABB)
• May 26 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw: “Using DNA-Based Testing to Manage Patient Care in Transfusion Medicine” (ASCP)
• June 2 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw: “The Impact of NAT for HIV-1 and HCV on Blood Donor Reentry” (ASCP)
• June 8 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Low-Incidence Blood Group Antigens” (ASCP)
• June 16 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Use of Chemicals in Antibody Identification” (AABB)
• July 28 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Traverse City: “Customer Service and Donor Satisfaction” (AABB)
  
• October 6 – 2 pm, Traverse City: “Recruiting for Specialty Products” (AABB)
• October 13 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Traverse City: “Personnel Matters: What Supervisors Should Know” (AABB)
• October 20 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Cord Blood Unit Selection: Getting the Perfect Graft” (AABB)
• October 27 – 2 pm, St. Joseph: “Blood Management Overview: A Hospital Perspective” (AABB)
• November 17 – 2 pm, Grand Rapids: “Antibodies: Coming In from the Cold” (AABB)
• December 8 – 2 pm, Saginaw: “Lean and Donor/Lean Manufacturing” (AABB)

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