How was the ISLH 2017 meeting planned?
The 2017 meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, was planned as a collaboration between ISLH and NASCOLA. 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 NASCOLA, including financial, administrative, and personnel matters. Meeting logistics are handled by SPLtrak.
For ISLH 2017, the Program Director (PD) is Tracy George. The program Co-Chairs are Joyce Rogers and Sherrie Perkins on behalf of ISLH and James Zehnder on behalf of NASCOLA. Abstract Co-chairs include John Frater, Albert Huisman and Richard Marlar. In 2016, 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. ICCS was also contacted to submit speakers for the ICCS concurrent session. Geographic locations of speakers were also considered as this meeting is in Honolulu. 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. Some adjustments to the program were made after review by the Board of Directors at the December 2016 ISLH Board Meeting.
Committee | Name |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Robert Gosselin (Chair) |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Rajiv Pruthi (Vice Chair) |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Steve Kitchen |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Cathy Hayward |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Pierre Toulon |
Hemostasis/Platelets | Jun Teruya |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Michael Keeney (Chair) |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Marie Christine Bene (Vice Chair) |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Nydia Strachman Bacal |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Suparna Nanua |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Prashant Sharma |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Albert Huisman |
Cellular Analysis and Flow Cytometry | Juan Carlos Otaso |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | Kees Harteveld (Chair) |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | George Chan (Vice Chair) |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | Adnan Hasimi |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | James Hoyer |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | Giuseppe d’Onofrio |
Anemias and Red Cell Disorders | Michele P Lambert |
Quality and Standards | Maria Proytcheva (Chair) |
Quality and Standards | Richard Marlar (Vice Chair) |
Quality and Standards | Jin-Yeong Han |
Quality and Standards | Andrew McFarlane |
Quality and Standards | Piet Meijer |
Quality and Standards | Elizabeth Van Cott |
Quality and Standards | MAlexander Kratz |
Molecular analysis | Archana Agarwal (Chair) |
Molecular analysis | James Zehnder (Vice Chair) |
Molecular analysis | John Waye |
Molecular analysis | Imran Mirza |
Molecular analysis | Jay L. Patel |
Molecular analysis | Mingyi Chen |
Education | Gina Zini (Chair) |
Education | Karen Moffat (Vice Chair) |
Education | Joyce Heesun Rogers |
Education | Qian-Yun Zhang |
Education | Anna Merino |
Education | Ruth Padmore |
Education | Kyle Bradley |