Abstracts from the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for tissue banking
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Abstracts from the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for tissue banking Ruth Warwick Æ David Pegg
Received: 27 June 2007 / Accepted: 27 June 2007 / Published online: 14 August 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
The 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the BATB was held in Nottingham on 25th and 26th April 2007 and attracted 105 participants. The meeting opened with a Welcome and Opening Comments from the BATB President, Dr Ruth Warwick, who then introduced the first invited speaker, Professor Naomi Pfeffer, Professor of Social and Historical Studies of Medicine at the London Metropolitan University, who gave a talk entitled ‘Histories of Tissue Banking’. This was followed by a donation workshop, ably chaired by Dr Arlinke Bokhorst from Bio Implant Services Foundation, Netherlands. The first session was split into two workshops. The first was on donation after death, which included talks from Anthony Clarkson and Emma Winstanley, NHS Blood and Transplant Tissue Services (NHSBT TS), Deirdre Cunningham, a Donor Transplant Coordinator Team Leader from Nottingham and Stephen Kaye, a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Chair of the Ocular Tissue Advisory Group. The talks were about donor family consent and donor histories over the telephone, novel approaches to increasing donation rates, integrated care pathways from brain stem dead patients and national eye retrieval schemes. The second part of the workshop was chaired by Professor Sarah Franklin from the R. Warwick (&) D. Pegg NHSBT Tissue Services, Deansbrook Road, Edgware, Middx HA8 9BD, UK e-mail: [email protected]
London School of Economics and included talks from Jen Lumsdaine from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Hilary Stafford from Leicester Bone Bank and Glenda Cornwell from Guy’s Assisted Conception Unit, London, on live kidney donors, live bone donation and embryonic stem cell donation, respectively. The BATB had an innovative new session, dedicated to Novice Investigators, which was chaired by Ms Helen Gillan and Dr Hilary Stafford. There was also a poster competition, judged by the BATB Scientific Committee, chaired by Professor David Pegg from the University of York. The Novice Investigators Prize was awarded to Neil McGowan from the Scottish National Blood Service, Tissue Services for his presentation on ‘Bacteriological contamination analysis of tissues procured in the mortuary environment over a 5-year period’. The Poster Prize was awarded to Kate Mitchell, NHSBT TS, for her poster on ‘Tissue Donation: what does it mean to teenagers? A qualitative study’. Day 1 ended with the Annual General Meeting, which reported an active scientific year, with a successful winter meeting in November 2006 entitled ‘A Science-Based Approach to Regulation A New Paradigm for Assuring the Safety and Quality of Tissues and Cells’, held in London and an educational vCJD Study Day held in Liverpool. Both meetings had excellent evaluations. Lively discussion around the role of standards in the post European Tissue and Cel
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