This is an activity offered by CBBS, a CMA accredited provider. Physicians attending this course may report up to 13.25 hours of Category 1 credits toward the California Medical Association’s Certification in Continuing Medical Education and the American Medical Association’s Physician’s Recognition Award.
This program is approved by California Laboratory Field Services for up to 13.25 contact hours of continuing education (Provider Number 0034).
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 01351 for up to 13.25 hours of continuing education.
The Second Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium was held May 14 and 15 in Los Angeles. The rapidly growing interest in cord blood transplantation was indicated in part by the fact that attendees were from Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and from around the United States. The scientific sessions reviewed the use of cord blood units for transplantation of adults, supportive care in cord blood tranplantation; current strategies in unrelated cord blood donor selection, transplantation for childhood and genetic disorders; the immune status following cord blood transplantation; ex-vivo expansion; regenerative medicine; and contemporary issues in cord blood banking.
A summary of the meeting and abstracts of presentations have been published in the October issue of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2004;10:728-739. A reprint may be obtained by sending a request with mailing address to:
symposiumreprint@cordbloodforum.org.
