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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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