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Full Schedule

  • Monday, October 21, 2024
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM US PDT
    Inspectors Training Workshop
    Speaker: Nick Brown
    Speaker: Michael Gautreaux, PhD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Speaker: John Schmitz, Ph.D., D(ABMLI, ABHI) – UNC Chapel Hill
    Speaker: Cal Stone
    Speaker: Melissa Weeks – ASHI
    This full day workshop will be held primarily to train laboratory inspectors, but anybody is welcome to attend. The morning session will be designed as an intensive course on how to perform laboratory inspections in general, and specifically for laboratories doing different types of testing. The afternoon session will feature a talk on the top 10 citations and common deficiencies as well as an update on ASHI's travel policy. A round table exercise will be held to discuss real life inspector scenarios.
     CE: 1.05 CEC / 7 CME
  • 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM US PDT
    Featured Topic: Immunogenetics & Disease
    Speaker: Henry Erlich, PhD – UCSF
    Speaker: Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH – University of California San Francisco
    Speaker: Mark Christian Loftus, PhD – Clemson University
    Speaker: Janelle Noble, PhD – UCSF
    Speaker: Paul Norman, PhD – University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Speaker: Benedetta Padoan, MSc – Leibniz Institute of Virology
    Speaker: Elizabeth Phillips, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Speaker: Jamie Rossjohn, PhD, FRS – Monash University
    Moderator: Steve Mack, PhD – UCSF
    This session will provide broad perspectives on the history, contemporary era, and future of immunogenetics. It will open with historical perspectives on the immunogenetics of disease, followed by modern immunogenetic perspectives on Type-1-Diabetes, infectious disease, and adverse drug reactions. The second half of the session will showcase new approaches for understanding the evolution and organization of the HLA region, the impact of archaic gene variants on the immunity of modern humans, and novel insights into KIR-HLA and CD8-NK cell interactions.
    
    Session developed by Steve Mack, program planning committee.
    
    To learn more please click here.
     CE: .68 CEC / 4.5 CME
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM US PDT
    First Time Attendee & New Member Reception
    This invitation only reception is to welcome ASHI's Annual Meeting first time attendees and new members of ASHI as of September 1, 2023.
  • 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM US PDT
    Opening Session: In the Blink of an Eye: ASHI’s first 50 years: How did we get here and where are we headed?
    Speaker: Robert Bray, PhD., F(ACHI), HCLD/CC(ABB) – Emory University
    Speaker: Michael Cecka, PhD, D(ACHI) – UCLA Immunogenetics Center
    Speaker: Harriet Noreen, BS, CHS (ACHI) – MHealth, University of Minnesota
    Speaker: Effie Petersdorf, MD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center;
    Speaker: Donna Phelan, BA, MT(HEW), CHS(ACHI) – Barnes-Jewish Hospital
    Moderator: Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, PhD, F (ACHI) – Stanford University
    Moderator: Howie Gebel, PhD – Emory University Hospital
    In this session, key leaders in the field of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics will navigate us through the history and evolution of our society, detailing how our mission to serve transplant patients required us to move beyond less-than-optimal methodologies, understand the challenging biology and overcome clinical obstacles through multidisciplinary collaborative efforts.

    Session developed by Marcelo Fernandez-Vina and Howie Gebel, program planning committee. To learn more please click here.
     CE: .15 CEC / 1 CME
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM US PDT
    Opening Reception with Exhibits
    Celebrate the kickoff of the 50th Annual Meeting while visiting with ASHI Exhibitors, poster presenters. Enjoy light fare and drinks while you make new connections.