Health Screening: New Approaches to Donor Wellness
Program Code: 094600
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Dennis Harpool, MT(ASCP)SBB, Blood Systems, Inc.

SPEAKERS
Stephen Eason, MBA, Carter BloodCare
Debra Kessler, RN,MS, New York Blood Center
Merlyn Sayers, MBBCh, PhD, Carter BloodCare

DESCRIPTION
More than 40,000 volunteer blood-donating Americans who regard themselves as healthy donate every day. If donation screening is supplemented with, for example, assays for total cholesterol and hemoglobin, then these individuals could gain valuable insights into health risks that might not otherwise have gained their attention. This session will demonstrate how providing this important information to donors can be a service to donors.