American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) 2019 Annual Meeting

American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) 2019 Annual Meeting is organized by American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) and will be held from May 14 - 18, 2019 at Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, Oregon, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 37 CME/CEU/CMLE units.

The 40th Annual meeting is the only one of its kind that offers a focus on apheresis medicine in both the donor and patient settings. It is the key educational and networking event for physicians, scientists, and allied health professionals in the field of apheresis medicine.

Preconference Activities:
State of the Science Conference on Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) will be held on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 at the Hilton Portland in Portland, Oregon.

https://www.apheresis.org/page/ASFA2019ECP

Join us for the ASFA 2019 State of the Science Conference on Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) to learn about scientific advances with substantial promise for translation into broadened clinical applications, personalized tailoring of the therapy, and more direct monitoring of treatment efficacy.

This groundbreaking, one-day conference, will highlight the most up-to-date, scientifically-based concepts key to the mechanism(s) underlying ECP’s antigen-specific immunogenic and tolerogenic efficacy. Field experts will address the potential to test these principles in the treatment of a broad spectrum of immunogenic cancers (including solid tumors, such as melanoma and ovarian carcinoma) and auto-reactive immunologic disorders (including haplotype mismatched stem cell transplants and allogeneic organ transplants). The special capacity of psoralen to augment the immunogenicity and tolerogenicity of ECP-processed cancer cells and of ECP-activated platelets to physiologically induce therapeutic dendritic antigen processing cells (DC) will be elucidated. Development and execution of derived trials will be described. Meeting participants will then partner with the leaders of the American Council on ECP (ACE) in break-out sessions to discuss the planning of the next generation of innovative trials. Please register early for this exciting conference and choose two working groups that best suit your interests. We look forward to seeing you in Portland!

Apheresis Review Session will be held on May 15, 2019
The Apheresis Review Session is a full day pre-conference workshop that provides a review of basic education in apheresis - including instrumentation, clinical applications, donor eligibility, regulatory considerations, donor and patient care, donor and therapeutic access issues, and more!

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.