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ISLH Meeting Planning

How was the ISLH 2018 meeting planned?

The 2018 meeting in Brussels, Belgium, was planned as a collaboration between ISLH and BSTH. The original meeting selection was voted on by the ISLH Board of Directors after consideration of several cities and partnering hematology organizations. An agreement was negotiated between ISLH and BSTH, including financial, administrative, and personnel matters. Meeting logistics are handled by SPLtrak.

For ISLH 2018, the Program Directors (PD) are Catherine Hayward and Charles Eby. The program Co-Chairs are Gina Zini and Pall Onundarson on behalf of ISLH and Katrien Devreese on behalf of BSTH. Abstract Co-chairs include John Frater, Albert Huisman, Richard Marlar and Christelle Orlando. In 2017, members of the scientific committees were confirmed (see below); each scientific committee includes a chair and vice-chair with a membership term of 3 years.

The scientific committees were asked to submit nominations for speakers for the meeting, including plenary speakers and concurrent sessions in their area of expertise. It was recommended that speakers be experts in their respective field with excellent publications and that someone on the committee would have heard that person speak before. Geographic locations of speakers were also considered as this meeting is in Europe. After speaker names were submitted, the Co-Chairs, Program Director, and Scientific Committee Chairs had conference calls to discuss speaker selection for all sessions. Members of the ISLH Executive Committee also participated in these meetings. Speakers were invited and confirmed. Session chairs were selected primarily from the Scientific Committees by the meeting Co-Chairs, Program Director, and Executive Committee.