BBTS 2025: Clinical and Scientific Programme

Scroll down for programme to date, this will be updated regularly leading up to the event.

Monday 13th October

Evening (TBC)

Bursary Celebration

20:30 - 23:00

Curry and Quiz Night - Matt Hazell and Martin Maley


Tuesday 14th October

Time

8:00

Onwards

Registration

9:15 -

9:30

Conference Opening from BBTS President Prof Dave Roberts


Simultaneous Sessions
9:30 - 11:00

9:30 -

11:00

Red Cell SIG Part 1:

Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

Blood Bank Technology SIG

Ben Holmes

Cellular Therapies SIG

Kenny Douglas 

Transfusion Practitioner SIG

Karen Mead & Pedro Valle Valliness

11:00 -

11:30

Break


Simultaneous Sessions
11:30 - 13:00

11:30-

13:00

Red Cell SIG Part 2: 
Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

Paediatric SIG

Anne Kelly 


Professor Chris Gale


Carol Cantwell                                                                                                                          

Microbiology SIG

Shannah Secret

13:00-

14:00

Lunch Break


Simultaneous Sessions
14:00 - 15:30

14:00 -

15:30

Red Cell SIG Part 3

Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

Patient Blood Management and Appropriate Transfusion SIG

Fateha Chowdhury & Julie Staves


Sewa Joacquin-Hearn


Dora Foukaneli

Components SIG


Mike Wilshire & Christine Saunders

15:30 -

16:00

Break

16:00 -

17:30

Plenary I: Cyber Attack - the aftermath and the way forward

Chair: 
Julie Staves & Fateha Chowdhury 

Speaker 1: 
Dr Sue Robinson


Speaker 2:

Speaker3: 
Dr Mike Prentice

17:30 -

20:00

Welcome Reception & Exhibition Opening



Wednesday 15th October

08.00 - 08:45

5K Run

08:00 - 08:45

Conference Registration


Simultaneous Sessions

09:00 - 10:30

1: Red Cell Matching

Nicole Thornton

2. Margaret Kenwright Awards

Jamie Nash

3: Patient Blood Management and Blood Health

Danny Gaskin

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Plenary II: BBTS Award Lectures

12:30 - 13:00

BBTS Annual General Meeting, Members Only

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch




Simultaneous Sessions

14:00 - 15:30

4. Hospital Lab

Tim/Graham

5. Clinical Case Studies

Katie Hands

Michelle Melly

Kalinga Perera

Laura Knox

6. Donors/Donation

Chiara Vendramin & Champa Manchanayake

7. Transfusion Transformation

Louise Sherliker

15:30 - 16:00

Break




16:00 - 16:45

Networking & Poster Viewing

16:45 - 17:15

Poster Prize Giving

19:00 - Midnight

Conference Dinner


Thursday 16th October


Time

Session

08:00 - 09:30

Conference Registration

09:30 - 11:00

8: Serological Case Studies

Laura Eastwood

Rachel Lammin

Meghan McIntosh

Ben Jones

9: SHOT

Caryn Hughes

10: EDI

Ian Sullivan

Erhabor Osaro

11:00 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 13:00

Plenary III - Machine Learning and AI in Blood Transfusion

Chair: Simon
Simon Stanworth & Julie Staves

Monitoring, benchmarking and feedback of data: Ryan Metcalf

Creating Multi-centred datasets in England - new Data Flows: Alwyn Kotze

Novel trial designs and embedding research into practice: Akshay Shah

13:00 - 13:15

Closing Remarks, Prof David Roberts

13:15-
13:45

Lunch

13:45

Close of Exhibition and Departure



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