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President's Message

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Happy Fourth of July to our membership. This spring has been extremely productive, thanks to our education committee. In May, the spring workshop was again held on the MSU campus. By all accounts, the workshop was a success with over 20 participants this year. The turn-out and enthusiasm of the participants is encouraging and we hope that the spring workshop can, once again, be a routine right of spring. This year's topic was identification of multiple alloantibodies. We need suggestions for next year's theme. Please send any suggestions to Theresa Downs, Kathryn Watkins or other members of the education committee (please see our web page). You can also bring your suggestions to the annual meeting.

SAVE the DATE. Yes, the annual meeting is just around the corner. Our annual meeting is September 17 and 18 at Schoolcraft College. Suzanne Butch has put together a terrific program, including two lectures from Dr. Mary Jo Drew. Topics include blood bank role in hemoglobinopathy patients, trauma, transfusion safety; manufacture of serologic reagents; and the Kay Beattie lecture in immunohematology. Amy Dixon, a perennial favorite, will be back speaking on coping with 4 generations in the workplace. As always, case studies will be back, including a new session on administrative issues.

Registration forms for the annual meeting will be emailed, and sent via US mail, in the next several weeks. If you need hotel reservations, please contact Suzanne Butch. We need to reserve our rooms by August 2nd for preferred rates.

Finally, the board has set a goal of revising our old membership brochure. Sharon Lowry, Ann Steiner and others are the lead people of this project. We hope to include a few statements of "What MABB membership has done for me" as part of the brochure. We are openly calling for comments from the membership for the brochure. I would like to include all the comments as part of a running slide show and the MABB web site. Please consider dropping us a line.

I look forward to seeing you this September.

Laura Cooling, MD, MS
President, Michigan Association of Blood Banks

 

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