Point-Counterpoint: Blood Collection Controversies
Program Code: 9425-TC
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Terry Perlin, PhD, Miami University-Ohio

SPEAKERS
Richard Benjamin, MD, PhD, American Red Cross
Jed Gorlin, M.D., M.B.A., Memorial Blood Centers

DESCRIPTION
This session will feature two leaders in the transfusion medicine/blood banking community discussing current controversies from a blood center viewpoint. Possible topics include: underage donation, a right, a need, or wrong?; TRALI testing, for all donors and all products?; blood center variation in infectious disease testing, good or bad; regulatory agencies, driving or inhibiting blood safety.