Professionals of high level in their respective specialities from different parts of the World, among which there are academics, professors and researchers of relevant career in the different topics of the congress, will be present in HEMATOLOGY´2013. We advance some names:

– José M. Ballester, Head, National Group of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, CUBA
– Dunia Castillo, Head of the National Program of Comprehensive Care in Hemophilia, CUBA
– Alfredo Conejo Cordero, CENARE Centro Nacional de Rehabilitación, Member of the multidisciplinary group of medical care to hemophiliacs, COSTA RICA
– Norma de Bosch, BMS Metropolitan Blood Bank, Caracas, VENEZUELA
– Ernesto de la Torre, Academic, President of the National Council of Health Scientific Societies, CUBA
– Narcisse Elenga, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne “Andrée Rosemon”, Member Executive Board CAREST, GUYANA
– Jacques Elion, Professor/Genetics/Pediatric Hematology/Sickle Cell Disease Robert Debre Mother & Child Univ Hosp, Paris, FRANCIA
– Elena Franco, Transfusion Medicine, ESPAÑA
– Giuseppe Gaita, Head, Dpto. of Citometry, Pediatric Hospital, Monza, ITALIA
– Alejandro González Otero, Head of the National Programo of Leukemia, CUBA
– Marie Dominique Hardy-Dessources, President CAREST, GUADALUPE
– Porfirio Hernández-Ramírez, Coordinator of the National Group of Regenerative Medicine, CUBA
– Lisiane Keclard-Christophe, Inserm, Member of the executive board of CAREST GUADALUPE
– Jennifer Marcelle Knight-Madden, Sickle Cell Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Member of the Executive Board of CAREST, JAMAICA
– Hans-Jochem Kolb, Kolb Consulting UG/Consultant Med. 3 TUM, ALEMANIA
– Consuelo Macías, Head of the National Immunodeficiencies Registry and of the National Group of Immunology, CUBA
– Madalena do Rosario Marques Fragoso da Silva, Clínica Multiperfil, Luanda, ANGOLA
– Giuseppe Masera, Monza Hospital, Milán, ITALIA
– Rosalía Méndes Otero, Federal University, Río de Janeiro, BRASIL
– Marc Roman, Inserm, UMR S665, Inserm/ Université des Antilles, GUYANA
– Guillermo Ruiz Argüelles, General Director, Hematology and Internal Medicine Center Clínica Ruiz, Puebla, past president ISH, exsecretary general IAD, member of AMEH, MEXICO
– Christian Saint-Martin, INSERM, Member of the Executive Board, CAREST, GUADALUPE
– Belinda Simoes, University of Sao Paulo, BRASIL
– Shimon Slavin, Professor of Medicine, Scientific & Medical Director The International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI), Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
– Luis Sotillo, Head of the Laboratory of Genetics, Caja del Seguro Social, PANAMÁ
– Eva Svarch, Head of the National Program for Comprehensive Care of sickle cell disease patients, CUBA
– Alejandro Vernaza, Head of the laboratory of Transplant, Caja del Seguro Social, PANAMÁ
– Rinaldo Villaescusa, Member of the National Program for Comprehensive Care of sickle cell disease patients, Vicepresident CAREST, CUBA
– Gillian Wheeler, Member of the Executive Board, CAREST, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO.

MORE NAMES IN THE LIST OF RELEVANT ATTENDANTS TO HEMATOLOGY´2013:

• Rodrigo de Lino Brito, consultor,  Experience in neonatal screening for SCD, BRASIL

• Rafaella Collombatti, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitá di Padova, Padova, ITALY
• Dame Marcela Contreras, Chairman of Blood Transfusion International,   UK
• Paulo Ivo Cortez, Politica Nacional de Atenção Integral às Pessoas com Doença  Falciforme, BRASIL
• Maryse Etienne-Julan, UMR-S Inserm,  Université Antilles, GUADALOUPE
• Ronald Eveillard, Centre Hospitalier de Carrefour (CHC), Port-au-Prince, HAITI
• Jean-Claude FABER, member of WHO Expert Panel in Blood Transfusion, president of the International Haemovigilance Network, president of the ALH (Luxembourgish Haemophilia Association) LUXENBOURG
• Ana Stela Goldbeck, Consultora formativa, Newborn Screening National Programme, Ministry of Health, BRASIL
• Martín Gómez, United Blood Services of El Paso, Texas, USA.
• Melanie Kirby-Allen, Co-Director Haemoglobinopathy Program Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto, CANADA
• Caroline Le Van Kim, Professeur Université Paris, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, FRANCE.
• Mercedes Mijares, Caracas Blood Bank, Hemophilia, VENEZUELA
• María Dolores Nieto Gallegos, Hemotherapy and Immunohematology, Master in Cell and Tissue Therapy, Consultant of PAHO for Blood Services and Transfusion Medicine, ECUADOR
• Cándida Queiroz, Politica Nacional de Atenção Integral às Pessoas com Doença Falciforme, BRASIL
• Marvin Reid, Director Sickle Cell Unit, Univ West Indies, Vicepresident CAREST, JAMAICA

NEW EXPERTS IN HEMATOLOGY´2013

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.