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Are you experiencing GVHD of the skin, eyes or mouth?

 Meredith, transplant (2001) and GVHD survivor

If you answered 'yes', you can take charge of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and lessen the impact it has on your everyday life... Learn how in these workshops:  
  1. Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Skin and Connective Tissue
  2. Your Eyes and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
  3. Your Mouth and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
taking place at the 9th National 
 
April 28-29, 2018

Hyatt Regency Aurora - Denver Conference Center
 Aurora, CO
 
CLICK HERE to see the agenda

 
Workshop #1: 
Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Skin and Connective Tissue
Speaker: Catherine Lee, MD  

Dr. Lee will discuss how chronic GVHD can affect the skin and connective tissues following a transplant using donor cells and therapies available to manage it.   
 
Dr. Catherine Lee
   

Dr. Catherine Lee is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/BMT at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah. She specializes in blood stem cell transplants for the treatment of hematologic diseases in adult patients.
 
Dr. Lee is developing clinical trials for the treatment of chronic GVHD and she co-leads a chronic GVHD/long-term follow-up program to help patients monitor and manage their chronic GVHD. She also provides medical care specific to other long-term and late effects of blood stem cell transplantation.
 
Workshop #2: Your Eyes and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
Speaker: John Irvine, MD 

Learn the symptoms of chronic GVHD in your eyes following a transplant using donor cells and therapies available to treat it.
 
Dr. John Irvine is the Medical Director of Doheny Eye Centers UCLA and a member of the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA. He specializes in cornea/external disease and works closely with the Hematology/Oncology group at City of Hope Cancer Hospital providing in house consultation and outpatient evaluations/therapy for patients with ocular problems stemming from chronic graft-versus-host disease.
 
Among his many distinguished postitions prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Irvine was Chief of the Cornea Division and Medical Director for the PROSE service at Doheny/USC.  
Dr. John Irvine

 
Workshop #3: Your Mouth and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
Speaker: Nathaniel S. Treister, DMD DMSc

Dr. Treister will discuss the symptoms of chronic GVHD in your mouth following a transplant using donor cells and therapies available to treat it.
 
Dr. Nathaniel Treister
   

Dr. Nathaniel Treister is Chief of the Divisions of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He has published extensively in the field of oral medicine with an emphasis on oral complications of hematopoietic cell transplantation and chronic graft-versus-host disease.
 
Dr. Treister completed his Oral Medicine certificate and Oral Biology doctoral training at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where he is an Associate Professor of Oral Medicine in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity.
 
Don't miss this opportunity to network with others living with GVHD and learn how to take charge of GVHD.  The Symposium agenda includes three additional educational GVHD workshops:
  • Introduction to Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
  • Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver
  • Take a Breath! Managing Breathing Problems after Transplant  .

 
 
This is is an event you don't want to miss!
 
  
or phone 888-597-7674 or email  help@bmtinfonet.org .
 
I look forward to meeting you at the symposium! 
 
Warm regards, 
 
Susan Stewart
Susan K. Stewart 
Founder & Executive Director, BMT InfoNet
We are with you every step of the way!
 
 
 
 
MEET OUR GROWING LIST OF SPONSORS

P latinum Level
Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network
 
Gold Level
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
 
Silver Level
Kite, a Gilead Company
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children's Hospital
The University of Kansas Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program
William G. Pomeroy Foundation
 
Bronze Level
Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program, Children's Hospital Colorado
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute at Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Utah Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Huntsman Cancer Center, University of Utah
Be the Match®
The Meredith A. Cowden Foundation
 
Pewter Level
University of Colorado Hospital Blood Disorders Center
HonorHealth Virginia G. Piper Cancer Transplant Institute
Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
 
Supporting Partners
Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation
International Myeloma Foundation
 
If you would like information on becoming a 2018 symposium sponsor, contact Lynne Spina at lynne@bmtinfonet.org or phone 847-433-3313.