MORNING PROGRAM: 10:30 –11:30 AM
Celebrating a Half Century of Success and Looking Ahead
Rh disease once claimed the lives of approximately 10,000 babies each year in the United States alone. In the 1960s, Dr. Vincent Freda, an obstetrician, and Dr.John Gorman, the Director of the Blood Bank, both at Columbia, conducted pioneering research that led to a breakthrough in disease prophylaxis (RhoGAM®), effectively eradicating hemolytic disease of the newborn due to anti-Rh antibodies. Today, alongside patients and their families, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of that innovation with a special program that will address the success of this standard of care and the vision for making this therapy available to moms and babies around the world. Notable panel members will include pioneers in the history of this achievement as well as representatives of major international organizations dedicated to spreading
its benefits worldwide.
AFTERNOON PROGRAM: 2:00–3:00 PM Grand Rounds
Immunoprophylaxis Against Red Blood Cell Antigens: Successes and Failures
Featured speaker:
Jeanne Hendrickson, MD; Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Pediatrics; Associate Director, Transfusion Medicine Service, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Hendrickson is a pediatric hematologist and transfusion medicine specialist. Her research interests include investigating the induction and consequences of red blood cell alloantibodies in transfusion and pregnancy situations, in murine models and in human clinical settings.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Marquett Kennely at
[email protected], or at (212) 305-2204.
