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2005 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

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Programme & Photos of the 2002 Conference

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Programme & Photos of the 2003 Conference

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Programme & Photos of the 2004 Conference

Scientific and Workshop Programmes (see below)

Dinner Photos

TIME

TOPIC SPEAKERS

08:55

WELCOME - Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Lyn Ireland

Chairperson, ATBF

Chair: Lyn Ireland

09:00

 

OPENING ADDRESS

Dr. Norman Swan

Producer & Broadcaster

Health Report, ABC Radio National

Health Minutes , ABC Newsradio

Editor: The Choice Health Reader

09:20 Banking on Cultured Skin Cells and Tissue Engineering - the Future of Burn Wound Treatment

Dr. Zhe Li

Skin Culture Laboratory, NSW State-Wide Severe Burns Injury Services, Concord Hospital, NSW

09:50

 

The Importance of Closure- The Use of Skin and Skin Substitutes in the Acute Burn Wound

Dr. John Harvey

Head, Burns Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW

10:20 Biomechanical Changes to Aortic Allografts after Implantation: implications for function and longevity

Dr. Grant Christie

Green Lane Hospital, Auckland

New Zealand

11:00 MORNING TEA

Chair:  Dr. Paul Anderson

11:15

Cellular Engineeering: Future of Tissue Banks

Prof. Ming Z. Zheng

Director of Research

Department of Surgery, University of Western Australia,Nedlands, WA

 

11:45

Use of Soft Tissue Allografts in Knee Surgery

Dr. Jun Nagamori

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sydney Adventist Hospital, NSW

 

12:15

Hip/Knee Tumour- Allograft and Bone Graft Substitutes

Dr. Ian G. Woodgate

Orthopaedic Surgeon, St. Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, NSW

 

12:45 Developments in Bone Grafting and Spinal Fusion

Dr. Bruno Gomes

Orthopaedic Research Registrar, Department of Clinical Research, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW

 

13:15 LUNCH AND TRADE DISPLAY

Chair: Prof. Ming Zheng

14:00 Tissue Banking Meets Tissue Engineering

Mr. Paul Anderson

Managing Director, Verigen Australia, Nedlands, WA

14:30 Double Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation - The Australian Experience

Dr.John Moore

Staff Specialist, Haematology Department, St. Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW

15:00 Cardiac Myocyte Replacement Therapy

A/Prof Peter MacDonald

A/Prof Medicine, Heart & Lung Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW

 

15:30  AFTERNOON TEA

Chair: Dr.Lois Armiger

15:45 A Single Institution Biorepository: Lessons Learned at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead Tumour Bank

Dr. Daniel Catchpoole

Head, Tumour Bank, Oncology Research Unit, The Childrens Hospital at Westmead, NSW

16:15

An Audit of the Douglas Hocking Research Institute Bone Bank. Ten years of non-irradiated bone graft.

Dr. David Love

Orthopaedic Registrar,

Douglas Hocking Research Institute, Geelong Hospital, Vic

 

POSTERS

POSTER 1: Michelle Fleming et al-The Australasian Biospecimen Network-Maximising a Valuable Tissue Resource for Researchers

POSTER 2: Loretta Huckstepp Et Al - VIABILITY OF FRESH, STORED AND CRYOPRESERVED HAEMOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELLS FOR TRANSPLANTATION

POSTER 3: Fiona Zhang et al - Analysis of Factors in Choice of Cord Blood Units for Transplantation

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 27th April 2005

The information gleaned from the interactions with TGA will be used to construct and inform a new Standards document for tissue banking. This is the document which will replace the current Code of GMP- Human Blood and Tissues.

08-09AM

REGISTRATION

09:00AM

WELCOME

Dr. Alan Farnsworth, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Director Sydney Heart Valve Bank

09:15AM

Dr. Richard Pembrey

TGA Representative

09:25AM

Lyn Ireland

Bacterial Contamination of Allografts

 

09:45AM

Lucy-Anne Riley

Operations Manager

Microbiology Dept, St. Vincent's Hospital

Dilemmas Associated  with Contamination Testing in Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory

 

10:00AM

Open Discussion of ATBF Policy Microbiology Testing

11:15AM

Silvana Niutta

TGA Representative

Quality system- key principles, interpretation and expectations.

 

11:45AM

Open Discussion/Questions

12:00PM

Joyleen Winters

10 Year Review of Musculoskeletal Tissue Banking in Western Australia

12:30PM

Anne Cowie

Femoral Head Donation Trial, Perth Bone and Tissue Bank

2:00-6:00PM

Specialty Workshops

Interaction between ATBF members and TGA Representative to discuss:
1) Current standards being used by tissue banks
2) What standards are relevant to tissue banks

BANK WORKSHOPS

BONE WORKSHOP

Chairs: Anne Cowie/Stephanie Beeton

bulletBone Workshop Agenda

HEART VALVE WORKSHOP

Chair: Linda Manning

Marian Sturm- Cryopreservation - Let me count the ways

bulletHeart Valve Workshop Agenda

SKIN WORKSHOP

Chair: Jane Beard

bulletSkin Workshop Agenda

BUSINESS MEETING

PROGRAMME

Friday, 29th April, 2005

Function Room

Level 4 (Ground Floor)

St. Vincent's Clinic

 

 

 

DOWNLOADABLE

TGA

FORMS

 

Tissue Standards Template

 

Tissue Standards Development

Template

Musculoskeletal

Skin

Heart valves

 

 

INVITED GUESTS

 
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TGA Representatives

Patricia Stewart-Richardson

Dr. Richard Pembrey

Suzanne Douglas

Silvana Niutta

 

 

 

MEETING AGENDA

Australasian Tissue Banking Forum (Inc.), 2001  Legal Notice  Copyright©2001 [ATBF].  All rights reserved.  WEBMASTER