2012 Audioconference Schedule
Continuing Education Credit
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All cellular therapy-focused audioconferences are denoted by an *.
Leadership Management Audioconferences for Individuals are labeled throughout the schedule.
01/05 - TRIM: Transfusion-Related Immunomodulation
01/12 - The Science of Hematopoietic Cell Donor Recruitment, Selection and Management*
01/26 - Do Unto Others: Internal and External Customer Service Initiatives
02/02 - Transfusion Management of the ITP Patient
02/09 - In the Trenches: Surviving FDA Inspections*
02/16 - Transfusion Medicine in Solid Organ Transplantation
03/02 - Monoclonal Reagents: Is Your Problem Really A Discovery?
03/09 - Changes to 27th Edition "Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services"
03/16 - Cord Blood, Bone Marrow and Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell, Apheresis: A Comparison
03/23 - Quality Measures of Performance for Implementation of Automation in the Transfusion Service
03/30 - Proficiency Testing for Cellular Therapy Labs*
04/06 - 2-D Bar-coded Patient Armbands for Transfusion and Infusion Integration
04/13 - Healthcare Reform, What it Means to Me and the Workplace
04/20 - Coding & Reimbursement
04/27 - Ancillary Materials*
05/04 - Optimizing the Use of Rare Red Cells in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
05/11 - Effectively Welcoming New Employees
05/18 - Bacterial Contamination of Blood Products
05/25 - Update on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation*
06/08 - FFP vs. Thawed Plasma: Why Use a Thawed Plasma Inventory
06/15 - Sickle Cell Patients: Molecular Immunohematology and What To Do With Those Results Regarding Transfusion Management
06/22 - How to Use Governance to Align Resources with Company Goals
06/29 - Hemovigilance and Transfusion Reactions FREE SESSION
07/13 - Warm Autoantibodies: Blood Bank Serology and Selection of Red Cells for Transfusion
07/20 - If Training Is the Solution, What's the Problem?
07/27 - Pulmonary-Renal Syndromes*
08/03 - HLA Biology, Testing and Implication for Blood Bankers
08/10 - Changes to the 5th edition of Standards for Cellular Therapy Product Services
08/24 - Basic Lean in the Transfusion Service
09/14 - Using Behavioral Interviewing to Reduce Turnover Through Improved Hiring
09/21 - Cell-Based Therapies for Immune Modulation*
09/28 - When the Unexpected Antibodies Cause ABO Discrepancies: Methods and Approaches Towards Solving Both Problems
09/29 - ISBT 128 for Cell Therapy Facilities: A Road map to Successful Implementation FREE SESSION
10/05 - Changes to the Technical Manual, 17th edition
10/12 - Thromboelastography in the Clinical Laboratory
11/02 - Practices in Cellular Therapy: Cryopreservation, Thaw and Infusion*
11/09 - Advanced Serologic Case Studies
11/16 - Islet Cell and Other Somatic Cell Therapies*
11/30 - Hemovigilance, Incident Trending and Corrective Action
12/07 - ABC's of Grant Writing*
12/14 - CDC's Hemovigilance Module of the National Healthcare Safety Network: How Your Hospital Can Monitor Transfusion-related Adverse Events FREE SESSION
2011 Leadership Management Audioconference Series for Individuals
02/08 - The Culturally Diverse Workplace: How to Integrate, Mentor and Retain Your Employees
04/12 - The Evolution of a Supervisor Development Program
06/07 - The Best Manager is a Clown
08/02 - Mentoring: How Does Your Garden Grow?
10/11 - It's True: The Best Leaders Are Not Fully Well-Rounded: Their Management Team Is!
12/06 - Developing Employees' Life Skills...Good for Them and Good for the Company?