Board on Health Sciences Policy
Committee on Establishing a National Cord Blood
Stem Cell Bank Program
Meeting 1

June 2, 2004

The National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Ave. NW.  Washington, DC
Board Room

AGENDA

June 2, 2004

OPEN SESSION

12:00 p.m.         Lunch (provided outside Board room)

1:00                Welcome and Introductions

Kristine Gebbie
Committee Chair
Associate Professor of Nursing, Columbia University

1:15                Background and Charge to the Committee

James F. Burdick, MD
Director, Division of Transplantation
Special Programs Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration

Brent Jaquet
Congressman Young's Office

Sudip Parikh
Senator Specter's Office

2:00                Selected Federal Agencies

Captain Robert Hartzman
Director, Department of Defense Marrow Program, Navy

Liana Harvath, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Division of Blood and Resources
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Jill Warner, Esq. and Ellen Lazarus, M.D.
Food and Drug Administration

 2:45                Break

 3:00                Public and Private Banks and Registries

Dennis Confer, MD
Chief Medical Officer
National Marrow Donor Program

Pablo Rubenstein, MD
Director
New York Blood Program

3:30                Clinical Perspectives

Naynesh Kamani, MD
Chair, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunology
Children's National Medical Center

3:45                Professional Organizations

Edward Snyder, MD
American Association of Blood Banks

Michael Fitzpatrick
Chief Policy Officer
America's Blood Centers

Joanne Kurtzberg
American Society for Hematology

4:15                Discussion

5:00                Adjourn

Reception in Executive Dining Room

(Guests and Speakers Welcome)