4th EBMT Patient & Family Day

Programme

 

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & Introduction
W. Linkesch (Graz, Austria); E. Aerts (Zurich, Switzerland);
D. Niederwieser (Leipzig, Germany); A. Waldmann (Rüsselsheim, Germany)
09.15 – 09.30 Overview of transplant activity and scientific trends
Speaker: D. Niederwieser (Leipzig, Germany)
09.30 – 09.45 Overview of standard of care and scientific trends in nursing
Speaker: E. Aerts (Zurich, Switzerland)
09.45 – 10.00 Concerns of patients and families (access & reimbursement)
Speakers: K. Modic (Grosuplje, Slovenia); M. Steagal (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.15 Plenary Session 1: Graft-versus-host disease and ECP
Chairs: R. Knobler (Vienna, Austria); B. Birkenau (Vienna, Austria)
10.30 – 10.45 Graft versus Host Disease
Speaker: E. Holler (Regensburg, Germany)
10.45 – 11.00 Extracorporal Photopheresis
Speaker: N. Worel (Vienna, Austria)
11.00 – 11.15 Questions and discussion
11.15 – 12.00 Plenary Session 2: Why we need unrelated donors
Chairs: A. Gratwohl (Basel, Switzerland); A. Janisch (Graz, Austria)
11.15 – 11.30 International Donor Search
Speaker: E. Petersdorf (Seattle, United States)
11.30 – 11.45 Results with unrelated Donors
Speaker: M. Mohty (Nantes, France)
11.45 – 12.00 Questions and discussion
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 14.30 Workshop 1
Multiple Myeloma / Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Chairs: G. Gahrton (Stockholm, Sweden); F. Richter (Müllendorf, Austria)
Speakers: N. Kröger (Hamburg, Germany); O. Krieger (Linz, Austria)
13.00 – 14.30 Workshop 2
Acute leukaemia
Chairs: E. Pittermann (Vienna, Austria); G. Kropshofer (Innsbruck, Austria)
Speakers: H.K. Al-Ali (Leipzig, Germany); A. Wölfler (Graz, Austria)
13.00 – 14.30 Workshop 3
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Chairs: U. Jäger (Vienna, Austria); G. Bouguet (Paris, France)
Speakers: P. Neumeister (Graz, Austria); J. Drach (Vienna, Austria)
13.00 – 14.30 Workshop 4
Paediatrics / Non-malignant diseases
Chairs: C. Peters (Vienna, Austria); B. Lukan (Graz, Austria)
Speakers: C. Urban (Graz, Austria); J. Passweg (Geneva, Switzerland)
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 15.30 Plenary Session 3: Rehabilitation after haematopoietic stem cell
transplantation

Chairs: D. Niethammer (Tübingen, Germany); B. Keinrath (Vienna, Austria)
15.00 – 15.15 The medical perspective
Speaker: A. Mumm (Freiburg, Germany)
15.15 – 15.30 The nurse’s approach
Speaker: G. Thieme (Freiburg, Germany)
15.30 – 16.00 Plenary Session 4: Psychologic support during HCT
Chairs: B. Kircher (Innsbruck, Austria); K. Langer (Vienna, AT)
15.30 – 15.45 About psychical stress during stem cell transplantation
Speaker: S. Leonhardt (Graz, Austria)
15.45 – 16.00 Cured – my way through “BMT”
Speaker: R. Hofer (Linz, Austria)
16.00 – 17.00 Plenary Session 5: Music and Medicine
Chairs: G. Fischer (Vienna, Austria); C. Jensen (Vienna, Austria)
Is there an impact of music on the critically ill patient?
16.00 – 16.30 Perils or Pitfalls
Speaker: Klaus Laczika (Vienna, Austria)
16.30 – 17.00 The “Vienna Philharmonic Approach”
Speaker: Peter Kalhs (Vienna, Austria)
17.00

Closure
W. Linkesch (Graz, Austria)

 

Welcome to EBMT 2011
President 2011 C. Gorin (Paris, France)

 
All presentations will be provided in English and German
(simultaneous translation).

 

Registration: The 4th Patient & Family Day is an integrated part of the EBMT annual meeting. Even though there is no fee; separate registration is mandatory in order to facilitate the organisation. Please note no fee is charged to attend the meeting, but Pre-registration is required for planning purposes. May we kindly ask you to register by with the enclosed registration form or online.