Program Planning Process

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• Program Planning Process

ISLH Meeting Planning

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.