Educational Sessions

Continuing Medical Education Accreditation will be offered for the Educational Sessions. Details can be found here.


Venous thrombosis 1
Chairmen:  Mike Greaves, UK; Amr Gad, Egypt

  • The central role of protein S in regulation of coagulation. Tilman Hackeng, The Netherlands
  • What is the benefit of testing for heritable thrombophilia? Trevor Baglin, UK
  • Prevention of VTE in the hospitalised patient: the evidence. Mike Greaves, UK

Hereditary bleeding disorders
Chairmen:  Alok Srivastava, India; Amal El Beshlawy, Egypt

  • Hemophilia.  The Pia Glas-Greenwalt Memorial Lecture.  Alok Srivastava, India
  • Rare bleeding disorders.  Flora Peyvandi, Italy
  • Von Willebrand Disease.  William Nichols, USA

 
Chairman:  Nevine Kassim, Egypt

  • Current views on cause of first and recurrent venous thrombosis.  Frits Rosendal, Nertherlands
  • New antiplatelet agents.  Marco Cattaneo, Italy

  • Inhibitor development and choice for plasma vs recombinant factor VIII products.  Anske van der Bom, The Netherlands and Johannes Oldenburg, Germany
  • Abolishing ALL FFP. Trevor Baglin, UK

 

Venous thrombosis 2
Chairmen:  Sam Schulman, Canada; Sherif El Shalkany, Egypt

  • Diagnosis, management & duration of therapy in thrombotic disorders.  Henri Bounameaux, Switzerland
  • Management of vitamin K antagonists.  Felix van der Meer, The Netherlands
  • New issues in oral anticoagulation.  Sam Schulman, Canada

Women's Issues
Chairmen:  Flora Peyvandi, Italy; Andra James, USA

  • The thrombotic risk associated with oral contraceptive use.  Astrid Van Hylckama, The Netherlands
  • The risk of recurrence of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in congenital and acquired AD13 deficient women.  Flora Peyvandi, Italy
  • Management of pregnancy in women affected with coagulation disorders.  Rezan Kadir, UK

 

Laboratory Quality Management in limited health resourced countries
Chairmen:  Steve Kitchen, UK; Francis E Preston, UK

  • Preanalytical variables in haemostasis testing.  Steve Kitchen, UK
  • EQA in low resourced countries.  Alok Srivastava, India
  • Quality management in haemostasis.  John Olson, USA

Specific issues in countries with limited health resources
Chairmen:  Tareef Hamza Sallam, Egypt ; Naguib Zoheir, Egypt

  • Use of laboratory tests to  approach a diagnosis in thrombosis & hemostasis.  The Marion Barnhart Memorial Lecture.  Raul Altman, Argentina
  • Safe replacement therapy.  Magdy El Ekiaby, Egypt
  • How to build up scientific thinking in developing countries.  The Shirley Johnson Memorial Lecture.  Emin Kansu, Turkey

 

  • Hemostasis & liver disease.  Cheng-Hock Toh, UK
  • Pediatric thrombosis.  Guy Young, USA

 

Antiphospholipid syndrome
Chairmen:  Ph de Groot, The Netherlands; Mohamed Momtaz, Egypt

  • The serolological criteria that determine the presence of APS.  Armando Tripodi, Italy
  • How do antiphospholipid antibodies increase the risk of thrombosis and fetal loss.  Ph G. de Groot, The Netherlands
  • How I treat APS.  Vittorio Pengo, Italy

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
Chairmen:  Andreas Greinacher, Germany; Mohsen El Alfy, Egypt

  • Pathogenesis of ITP. Douglas Cines, USA
  • Acute ITP and management of acute major bleeding in ITP. Betrand Godeau, France
  • Chronic ITP with a special focus on virus infection associated ITP. Howard Liebman, USA

 

Arterial disease and platelet therapy
Chairmen:  Alan Nurden, France; Mohamed Ali Taher, Egypt

  • Do we need to monitor patients on treatment with clopidogrel?  Marco Cattaneo, Italy
  • Ticagrelor:  PLATO and beyond.  Robert Storey, UK
  • Thrombocytopenia in a cardiovascular disease setting.  Alan Nurden, France

Interactive discussion of case histories
Chairmen:  Hadi Goubran, Egypt; Pier Mannucci, Italy; Robert Montgomery, USA