Andréa Biondi,  Tettamanti Foundation, Monza, ITALY

Roberto Cañigral Ferrando, Valencia, SPAIN

Charles Clarke. The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases – Queen Square, UK

José Dalmo de Araújo, IMC (Instituto de Moléstias Cardiovasculares) São José do Rio Preto, BRAZIL

Teresa Español, Emeritus Especialist in Immunology,  University Hospital Vall d´Hebron. Representtive of te Primary Immunodeficiencies Spanish Group.   SPAIN

Francisco Espinosad,  Deputy Director for Medical Research, Head, Immunology Service, National Pediatric Institute, Representative for the Mexican PID Group at the Latinamerican Society of Immunology (LASID), MÉXICO       .

David Gómez Almaguer,  Agrupación Mexicana para el Estudio de la Hematología, MÉXICO.

Luis Larrea González,  Grupo Valencia, SPAIN.

Kun Soo Lee, Professor Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, KOREA

Antonio Roberto Lucena de Araújo, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

Rosalía Méndes Otero, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL.

Cristina Navarrete, Transfusion Medicine, Londres, UK

Matías Oleastro, Head, Immunology and Rheumatology Service, Pediatric National Hospital  “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan”, Buenos Aires. Representative for the Argentinian PID Group at the Latinamerican Society of Immunology (LASID), ARGENTINA.

Roberto Roig, Valencia, SPAIN.

Paulo Roberto Slud Brofman, presidente da Fundação Araucária Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Paraná, BRAZIL.

Jorge Tuma Mubarak, National University National “Federico Villarreal”, School of Medicine, Lima, PERÚ.

In the sessions dedicated to this young field of medical sciences, the following topics will be discussed:

• Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy.  General aspects, stem cells sources, obtention, preparation and expansion of stem cells;  preclinical and clinical experiences.
• Application of cell therapy in angiology, orthopedia and traumatology.
• Cell therapy in different diseases, among them:  cardiac, neurological, lung and dental diseases and other.
• Use of platelets as part of Regenerative Medicine.
• Regenerative Medicine and its link with Sport Medicine.
• Other means of application of Regenerative Medicine, Duch as:  recombinant factors, tissue engeneering, etc.
• Integration of blood banks and cell therapy.
• Development, advances and perspectives of Regenerative Desarrollo, avances y perspectivas de la Medicina Regenerativa y la Terapia Celular en Cuba.

  Papers in posters will also be presented in this area.

Hematology is the main subject of our congress and in the sessions related to its different topics there will be symposia and presentations on:

• Leukemias.

• Chronic immunolymphoproliferative síndrome.

• Chronic myeloproliferative síndrome.

• Stem cell transplantation.

• Nutritional Anemias.

• Symposium of the International Society of Hematology.

Prestigious national and foreign experts will talk about their experiences on these topics for disussion, among which we can mention:

• Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia in Cuban children.
• Epidemiology and initial response treatment in children leukaemia in Cuba (2006-2010).
• Promyelocytic leukaemia of recent diagnosis.  Treatment with Arsenin^®.
• Second neoplasias:  late complication in the treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma.
• Treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia in the era of tirosin kinasa inhibitors.
• New Treatment of Myelofibrosis (JAK 2 inhibitors).
• Monoclonal antibodires in the treatment of immune cytopenias.
• Bone Marrow grafting in Latin America.
• Myths and realities of the Mexican way to conduct bone marrow transplantation: 20 years later.
• Geriatric haematology.
• Policitemia vera in JAK´s era.
• Present situation of nutritional anemias in Cuba.  Control and prevention.
• State of the art of iron metabolism.
• Iron deficient anemia refractory to treatment with iron.

Much more you will have in poster presentations.

Sessions and presentations of high interest in the field of sickle cell disease (SCD) will be part of the program of this Conference, not only for the Caribbean researchers but to everyone caring for developing the utmost in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this hereditary haematological disease.  Among others we will have sessions, symposia or specific presentations on:

–      CAREST:  A Caribbean experience and perspectives.

–      International collaboration and global issues.

–      Haiti:  international cooperation

–      Cuban comprehensive care program.

–      Thirty six years of experience in the comprehensive care of SCD at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology, Cuba.  Psychosocial attention.  SCD and pregnancy.

–      Neonatal screening programs in various countries.

–      New approaches to SCD pathophysiology

–      Abnormal cell adhesion and cell-cell interaction:  molecular trgets.

–      Hematopoietic cell transplantation

–      Blood banking; transfusion management and iron overload.

–      Complications and hemorheological parameters

–      Microparticles production

–      Hydroxiurea

–      Pain management

–      Nutritional trials

–      Social aspects of the global management

–      Hospital challenges and opportunities in the treatment of children and adults.

Papers of particular interest will also be exhibited in posters for discussion of the attendants in the spaces indicated for this purpose.

Due to the particular characteristics of the Conference among the events of the Congress, the attendants will have access to Spanish-English-Spanish simultaneous translation.

In this important part of the congress there will also be different sessions and symposias.  Among others we can mention:

–  Blood donation

–     Hemotherapy

–     Hemovigilance

–     Infections transmitted by blood transfusion.

–     Immunohematology

–     Sanitary regulation in Transfusion Medicine.

Every talk will be made by prestigious specialist from different parts of the World, including Cuba, and we can tail some of them:

1. Strategies for the recruitment of volunteer blood donors.
2. Appropriate use of blood and blood components.
3. Impact in the consumption of hemoderivatives.
4. Epidemiology of transfusions.
5. Hemovigilance and its importance in the quality and safety of transfusion.
6. Challenges for the establishment of a system of Hemovigilance in Latin America.
7. Nucleic acid testing for blood banks: An experience from a tertiary care centre in New Delhi, India.
8. Autoimmune hemolytic anemias.
9. Hemolytic disease of fetus and newborn.
10. Quality indicators in the Cuban Blood Program in 2012.

Visiting our site periodically you will find interesting news about the congress.

In this workshop where patients and relatives will attend besides the specialists on the different branches working in the diagnosis and comprehensive care of hemophilia and other coagulation disorders, there will be sessions, symposia and oral presentations on very diverse topics among which we can mention:

–     National Hemophilia Program in Cuba.

–     50 years of the World Federation of Hemophilia and national organizations.

–     Advances in the psicosocial management of patients with hemophilia:  quality of life.

–     Orthopedic disturbances in hemophilia.

–     Dental management of patients with diseases related to coagulation disorders.

–     Dental treatment in the Cuban Hemophilia center.

–     Experience in the genetic advise in hemophilia.

–     National Registry of congenital coagulopathies in Cuba.

–     von Willebrand disease.

–     Preparation for surgery of anticoagulated patient.

–     New anticoagulant agents.

–     Unfrequent coagulation disorders.

–     Thrombosis associated to different hematological entities.

–     Pregnancy and thrombosis;   cancer and thrombosis.

–     Thrombocytopenias.

–     Laboratory diagnosis in thrombophilias.

The speakers will be highly qualified specialists from Cuba and foreign countries and fruitful exchange is to take place among all participants.

There will also be papers exhibited in posters.

In this important speciality there will be sessions and symposia on:

–         Primary immunodeficiencies (PID)

–         Autoimmune diseases

–         Immunity and infectious diseases

–         Active immunotherapy in cancer.

–         Molecular biology:   use and perspectives in diagnosis and histocompatibility.

About these topics prestigious national and foreign experts will talk.  Among the most interesting ones we can mention:

1. Flow cytometry in the diagnosis of PID.
2. Role of flow cytometry in diagnostic and monitoring of Childhood  Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: state of art and future challenges
3. Primary immunodeficiencies caused by antibody defects.
4. Painful topics in autoimmune diseases:  diagnosis and therapeutic options.
5. Monoclonal antibody Itolizumab (anti-CD6), a new alternative for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
6. Different models in the study of dengue´s infection immunology.
7. Immunopathogenesis of the infection by influenza virus.
8. Progression immunological markers in HIV infection.
9. Therapeutic vaccine CIMAvax EGF in lung and prostate of epithelial origin advanced tumors.
10. Racotumomab:  a promissing vaccine against advanced lung cancer.
11. Advances in the clinical development of a therapeutic vaccine: NGcGM3/VSSP.
12. Therapeutic vaccines against cancer:  Cuban experience.

Much more you will find in the final Immunology program, as well as in the papers to be exhibited in posters.

A prestigious enterprise, traditional cosponsor of our congresses, will also be in HEMATOLOGY´2013.

Indeed, ROCHE Products joins the selected group of distinguished sponsors and you will be able to visit their stand at the Fair that will take place simultaneously with the scientific sessions of the congress.

The Cuban Society of Immunology joins the sponsoring institutions for HEMATOLOGY´2013.

We take this opportunity to invite all specialists but particularly the ones from Latin America, to join us in the fruitful exchange of experiences that will take place during the Congress.