Website: www.hbtssn.org

HAEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (HBTSSN)

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2020

Venue: Atlantic Hall, Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES

DAY 1 Monday, 16th March 2020-

5.00- 7.00 pm      Arrival and Cocktail party at National Secretariat, 2B Railway Close(NITEL), D-Line, Port Harcourt(6 pm)

DAY 2 Tuesday, 17^th March 2020-

9.00-9.30 am      Formal Opening Ceremony

9.30-10.00am     Investiture and Award Ceremony of the Incorporated Board of Trustees

10.00-10.30am   Presentation of staff of office to National Officers and Expanded Executive Committee

10.30-11.15 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

HEALTHY BLOOD, HEALTHY NATION: THE HAEMATOLOGY SCIENTISTS BEQUEST by Professor A.O Emeribe

11.15-11.45am        TEA BREAK

PLENARY SESSIONS

11.45- 12.15pm Talk 1-

DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO HAEMOSTATIC DISORDERS IN NIGERIA: DISCOVERING THE MISSING LINK– Dr E.A.Usanga

12.15-12.30am      Product Presentations

12.30-1.00 pm    Talk 2–

BRIDGING THE MENTORING GAP FOR THE FUTURE OF HAEMATOLOGY IN AFRICA– Dr Dakuku Peterside

1.00- 2.00 pm      LAUNCH

2.00- 3.00pm       ORAL PRESENTATIONS –

3.00- 3.45pm       POSTER SESSIONS –

3.45- 4.00            INTERACTIONS & NETWORKING

4.00- 5.00            CLOSING FORMALITIES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

DAY 3: Wednesday, 18^th March 2020

9.00 – 9.30 am      Opening Formalities

9.30 -10.00 am    Product Presentations & TEA BREAK

PLENARY SESSION

10.00-10.40am   Talk 3–

PROVISION OF SAFE BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICES IN AFRICA: MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS ON CALL– Mr Idris Salihu

1. 11.20am  Talk 4–

COMPONENT BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF BLOOD PRODUCTS AS KEY TOWARDS ATTAINING A HEALTHY BALANCE BETWEEN THE NEED AND SUPPLY-Mr Salami Yakub

11.30-12.10am   Talk 5–

BLOOD DONOR DEFERMENTS: ETHICS OF SAFEGUARDING THE DONOR AND TRANSFUSION RECIPIENTS– Air Comodore Abayomi Akinwale Ph.D(RTD)

12.10-12.30pm    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SESSION/ PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS

12.30-1.30PM     ORAL PRESENTATIONS-

1.30-2.00PM        POSTER PRESENTATIONS

2.00-4.00 pm       HAEMATOLOGY STUDENTS’ QUIZES

4.00-5.00 pm       CLOSING FORMALITIES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

DAY 4 Thursday, 19^th March, 2020

9.00-10.00am     Opening Formalities/Poster Presentations

10.00-10.30am    TEA BREAK

SPECIAL WORKSHOP:

Building a Successful Research Career in Haematology (5 modules in 1)  CPD Credit Units

10.30-11.15am MODULE 1:Writing Winning Proposals

• Understanding and developing your proposal.
• Writing effective specific aims.
• Developing a compelling significance section.
• Demonstrating innovation and approach.
• Putting it all together and developing an engaging abstract and title

11.15-12.30pm  MODULE 2: Experimental Designs & Statistics

• Understand quantitative research design.
• Recognize and link basic concepts of statistics with “what it means” and “when it is used”.
• Determine and implement the appropriate statistical analysis needed to answer your research question based on the type of data collected

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12.30-1.15pm MODULE 3: Research Supervision & Integrity

• Researchers’ responsibilities
• Supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students
• Successful models of supervision
• Empowering candidates to manage the supervisor-student relationship
• Supporting your students to get published
• Warning signs that things aren’t going well and how to respond

1.15-2.00pm MODULE 4– Research Project Management-

• Understand how to implement and control a project
• Understand the relationship between priority of constraints and success criteria
• Know how to create a realistic project plan
• Understand how to minimize risk to a project
• Understand how to manage change to a research project
• Understand how to close a project

2.00-2.45pm MODULE 5:Scientific Writing & Publishing-

• Understand the publishing process, including why manuscripts get accepted/rejected
• Discuss construction of figures and tables
• In-class writing exercises include the allimportant abstract and a cover letter for submission of your manuscript to a journal
• Respond effectively to reviewers’ comments

2.45-3.00pm   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

3.00- 7.00 PM  ANNUAL GENERAL CONGRESS

7.00- 7.30pm    CLOSING

FRIDAY 20^th March 2020—- DEPARTURE