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Programme for the 4th Annual Scientific Meeting

DATE AND TIME	MEETING	VENUE
Thursday 10th April 1.00 PM - 6.00 PM	WORKSHOPS	Canberra Rex Hotel Board Room Conference Room
Friday 11th April 9.00 AM - 5:00 PM	SCIENTIFIC Please contact Helmi Albrecht for any conference matters. Sydney Heart Valve Bank 14th Floor, O'Brien Bld - St Vincent's Hospital Victoria Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 8382 3271 Fax: +61 2 8382 2540 shvb@stvincents.com.au	University House Common Room
Saturday 12^th April 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM	BUSINESS - Annual General Business Meeting Agenda (Not available until March 2003) Please contact Lyn Ireland if you would like items added to the business meeting agenda. Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria 57-83 Kavanagh Street, SOUTHBANK Vic 3006 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 3 9684 4301 Fax: +61 3 9682 7353 lyn@vifp.monash.edu.au	Canberra Rex Hotel Conference Room

WORKSHOPS

TIME		VENUE
12:00 - 13:00	REGISTRATION
13:00 - 13:30	Ms Shelley Tang Head, Medical Device Assessment Section, Conformity Assessment Branch, Therapeutic Goods Administration A Proposal for a National Regulatory Framework for Human Tissues and Emerging Biological Therapies Shirley Tang with a MPC Consultant	Conference Room
13:45 - 14:15	Talk: Azita Sharif CEO, Daedalus Software, Cambridge, MA, USA Functional Aspects of the Modular Biomaterial Tracking and Management (BTM™) System for Transplant Tissue Banks and Hospitals Abstract	Conference Room
14:15 - 18:00	BONE WORKSHOP Representatives: Anne Cowie and Stephanie Beeton	Conference Room
14:15 - 18:00	Heart Valve Workshop Representative: Kelly Hamilton (acting) Talk: Dr. Lois Armiger Heart Valve Laboratory, Green Lane Hospital, AUCKLAND, New Zealand Evidence of an immune response to allograft grafted valve leaflets Abstract	Board Room 417
14:15 - 18:00	Skin Workshop Representative: Lyn Ireland	To be Announced

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

TIME	TOPIC	SPEAKER
09:00	WELCOME note by Professor Stephen Cordner	Ms Stephanie Beeton
*Chair:* A/Professor Pauline Doran
09:05	Keynote Address Human Embryonic Stem Cells	Professor Alan Trounson
09:50	Cord Blood Stem Cells Abstract	A/Professor Marcus Vowels AM
10:20	Results of allograft heart valve replacement in 300 patients over a 12 year period	Dr. Peter Skillington
10:50	MORNING TEA
*Chair:* A/Professor David Morgan
11:05	Optimising the clinical potential of cultured epithelial autograft with CellSpray® Abstract	Ms Marie Stoner
11:35	The Rotary Liver Cell Bank: Australia’s first liver cell bank Abstract	Ms Daphne Cheah
12:05	Infections And Allografts	A/Professor Deborah Marriott
12:35	Development of Bioreactor Technology for Tissue Engineering of Human Cartilage Abstract	A/Professor Pauline Doran
13:05	LUNCH AND TRADE DISPLAY
*Chair:* A/Professor Deborah Marriott
14:05	Evolution of the Spinal Bone Graft- with Emphasis on the Recent Advances on Bone Grafts	Professor YAE Ghabrial
14:35	The effects of Gamma Irradiation on the Biological and Biomechanical properties of Allograft Bone Abstract	A/Professor David Morgan
15:05	Iontophoresis	Professor David Wood
15:35	AFTERNOON TEA
Chair: Dr. Lyn Ireland
15:50	Current status in 2003 of chondrocyte culture technology as applied to human autologous chondrocyte implantation Abstract	As/Professor Barry Oakes
16:05	Current controversies in tissue banking in Australia Abstract	A/Professor David Morgan

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Tumour Banking – The Princess Alexandra Hospital Experience	Ms Shirley Callaghan
Functional Application of the Interactive TissueTracking and Management System of the Bone Bank at the Massachusetts General Hospital	Dr William Tomford and Ms Azita Sharif

DINNER PHOTOS

Lyn Ireland awarded for her outstanding contribution to the ATBF

BUSINESS MEETING

BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

(Click here for printable version)

Chairperson Lyn Ireland

Welcome and Apologies
Minutes of Last AGM
Report from Blood & Organ Donation Taskforce – P DeGraaff
Report from TGA, Audit & Licensing Section – J. Doultree
Report from Executive

Chairman's Report

Treasurer's Report

Reports from Working Parties

Donor Selection

Donor Testing

Review of Membership fees
Funding the ATBF Secretariat
ATBF Policy on donor testing
Donor Selection Questionnaire
Letterhead
Development of National Regulatory Framework
Change to Constitution

MOTION: To insert in Interpretations that:

“”the end of the financial year will be 28 February””

Election of Executive members (2 positions)
Election of Representative of stakeholder associations
Other Business
Date of Next Meeting

Businessagenda2003.rtf (Printable Version)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Report from Blood & Organ Donation Taskforce

For copy of the talk, please call Lyn Ireland

Mr Peter DeGraaff

Report from TGA, Audit & Licensing Section

MS Jenny Doultree

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