SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

DAY 1 - SATURDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER 2015

08.30 - 10.00 Symposium 1: Treatment updates

Chairs: Nguyen Anh Tri, Vip Viprakasit

08:30 – 08:55 - Overview of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (TDT) - Chi Kong Li

08:55 – 09:20 - Overview of Non-Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (NTDT) - Anuja Premawardhena

09:20 – 09:45 - Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) current progress - Suradej Hongeng

09:45 – 10:00 - Panel Discussion

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee

10.30 - 12.30

Satellite: Blood safety Symposium

Chairs: Erica Wood/ Aparna Singh Shah

10:30 – 10:55 - Blood adequacy and safety – Challenges in the Asian Region - Aparna Singh Shah

10:55 – 11:15 - Blood adequacy, safety and recruitment: the Vietnam model – Ngo Manh Quan

11:15 – 11:40 - Blood safety international standards-the Australian

Model – Erica Wood

11:40 – 12:05 - Blood transfusion in Thalassaemia – Cheuk Kwong Lee

12:05 – 12:30 - Mitigating infectious risks in transfusion practice – Yesim Aydinok

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Free oral presentations

Chairs: Bach Quoc Khanh/tbc Presentations selected from submitted abstracts (the rest accepted as posters)

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee

15.30 - 17.00 Country reports

Chairs: Androulla Eleftheriou/Suthat Fucharoen (9 Country report presentations):

15:30 – 15:39 - Sri Lanka – Anuja Premawardhena

15:39 – 15:48 - Malaysia - Mohamed Ibrahim Hishamshah

15:48 – 15:57 - India – Roshan Colah

15:57 – 16:06 - Indonesia - Pustika Amalia Wahidiyat

16:06 – 16:15 - Philippines – Maria Liza Naranjo

16:15 – 16:24 - Bangladesh – Mahmood Chowdhury (Arzu)

16:24 – 16:33 - Vietnam - Nguyen Anh Tri

16:33 – 16:42 - Myanmar – Sein Win

16:42 – 16:51 - People’s Republic of China – Chen Ping

16:51 – 17:00 - Panel Discussion

17.00 – 18.00 Novartis Oncology Satellite Symposium

Chair : Nguyen Anh Tri

17:00 – 17:05 - Welcome and introduction – Nguyen Anh Tri

17:05 – 17:30 - Optimal Management of iron overload: targeting the liver, heart and beyond – Vip Viprakasit

17:30 – 17:55 - Establishing a comprehensive thalassaemia care programme: successes and challenges – Ibrahim Mohamed Hishamshah

17:55 – 18:00 - Questions and Answers

18.00 - 20.00 Opening ceremony

Chairs: Panos Englezos/ Nguyen Anh Tri

TIF – Panos Englezos

NIHBT/ViTA – Nguyen Anh Tri

Ministry of Health of Vietnam - tbc

ASEAN – Fernando M. Ferdinal

Keynote 1. Haemoglobin Disorders: The global picture Androulla Eleftheriou

Keynote 2. Gene Therapy – Philippe Leboulch

Traditional Music Show – 20 minutes

DAY 2 - SUNDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER 2015

08.30 - 10.00 Symposium 3: Iron

Chair: John Porter/Vip Viprakasit

08:30 – 08:55 - Iron metabolism and iron load in Haemoglobin disorders – Vip Viprakasit

08:55 – 09:20 - Iron chelation in TDT – John Porter

09:20 – 09:45 - Iron chelation in NTDT – Ibrahim Mohamed Hishamshah

09:45 – 10:00 - Panel discussion

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee

10.30 - 12.30

Symposium 4: Common complications – disease and treatment related

Chair: Shau Yin Ha/ Dimitrios Kountouras

10:30 – 10:55 - Liver Disease: Viral Hepatitis: Treat or Cure – Dimitrios Kountouras

10:55 – 11:20 - Heart Complications – Athanassios Aessopos

11:20 – 11:45 - Endocrine complications – Shau Yin Ha

11:45 – 12:10 - Infections – Suthat Fucharoen

12:10 – 12:30 - Silent cerebral ischaemia in TDT-patients – Mehran Karimi

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.45 Symposium 5: New Advances

Chairs: Bach Quoc Khanh/Philippe Leboulch

14:00 – 14:20 - Safety and Efficacy of Oral Therapy with Grazoprevir and Elbasvir for Chronic Hepatitis C – Paul Kwo

14:20 – 14:40 - MRI Technologies for Measurement of Tissue Iron Concentrations – Tim St Pierre

14:40 – 15:00 - MRI – The Thai experience – Pairash Saiviroonporn

15:00 – 15:20 - Novel Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents In Thalassemia – John Porter

15:20 – 15:40 - Gene Therapy: tbc

15:40 – 15:45 - Panel Discussion

15.45 - 16.15 Coffee

16.15 - 17.30 Symposium 6: Prevention

Chairs: Roshan Colah/ Michael Angastiniotis

16:15 – 16:35 - Screening and Counselling – Roshan Colah

16:35 – 16:55 - Obstetric approaches – Chanane Wanapirak

16:55 – 17:15 - PGD – Wirawit Piyamongkol

17:15 – 17:30 – Panel Discussion

17.30 - 18.50 Symposium 7: Public health issues

Chairs: Michael Angastiniotis/ Androulla Eleftheriou

17:30 – 17:50 - Epidemiology studies of the thalassaemia syndromes in Asia – Fred Piel

17:50 – 18:10 - Health technology assessment - Ying Yao Chen

18:10 – 18:30 - Generic or Substandard Drugs – Mahmood Hadipour Dehshal

18:30 – 18:50 – Panel Discussion

18.50 – 19.15

Closing remarks and Way forward

Panos Englezos, Nguyen Anh Tri, John B. Porter, Androulla Eleftheriou and Suthat Fucharoen

“Signing of a Joint Declaration”