Audience
This two-day course introduces blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapies (BMT+CT) to clinicians working in transplant units, or those who work with pre- and post-transplant patients wishing to extend their knowledge in this highly specialised field. The course focuses on the care of patients receiving both autologous and allogeneic blood and marrow transplants and cellular therapies.
Topics
Day 1
Friday 26 July 8am - 4pm
- Accreditation and regulation
- Introduction and overview of the ACI BMT+CT Network
- Overview of haemopoiesis
- The HLA system, tissue typing and finding a donor
- Haemopoietic progenitor cell sources and collection
- Processing and storage
- Introduction to the broader BMT team
- Cell infusion in transplantation
- Introduction to BMT quality management
- Immune effector cells
- Acute complications
- Patient story
Day 2
Monday 29 July 9am - 4pm
- Paediatric BMT overview
- Preparation for transplant and conditioning regimes
- Indications for transplant and cellular therapies
- Acute and chronic GVHD
- Infections in BMT+CT
- Psychosocial impacts of BMT+CT
- Pharmaceutical care in BMT+CT
- Nutritional impact
- Febrile neutropenia
- Survivorship and longterm follow-up
Aims
This event is aimed at haematology and BMT clinicians working in NSW health services. Clinicians will have some background in and knowledge of haematology but have had little BMT-specific education, training or experience.
Cost
Please be advised that this event is free to NSW Health employees.
Registration
Registrations are limited to 50 places
Documents
Program - 2024 Introduction to BMT (PDF File 343.5 KB)