Important Dates &
Upcoming Meetings

 

For details of related meetings, a regularly updated list of all meetings and conferences taking place can be found here.

 

30 March- 2 April 2008
EBMT Annual Congress
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  • 1-6 March, 2008
    Sofia, Bulgaria
    2nd ESO Masterclass in Oncology Nursing (European School of Oncology)
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  • 5-9 March, 2008
    Antalya, Turkey
    5th National Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Therapies Congress

    Included in the programme will be a joint certification course and examination with EBMT-NG called 1st Stem Cell Transplantation Nurse Certification Programme.

    Topics covered will be: Venous Access, Chemotherapy Administration, GVHD Care and Mucositis."
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  • 27-29 March, 2008
    Geneva, Switzerland
    6th EONS Spring Convention (European Oncology Nursing Society)
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  • 30 March- 2 April 2008
    EBMT Annual Congress, Florence, Italy
    34th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
     
    24th Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group
     
    7th Meeting of the EBMT Data Management Group
     
    2nd EBMT Patient & Family Day
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  • April 1, 2008
    EBMT NG Exchange Visit & Education Scolarship Deadline
    Applications for scholarships should be submitted to Erik Aerts
    Further information
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  • June 2-4, 2008
    Poznan, Poland
    6th Meeting of the EBMT Paediatric Disease Working Party

    1st Meeting of the EBMT Paediatric Nurses
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  • June 4-7, 2008
    Lugano, Switzerland
    10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma
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  • June 15 -19, 2008
    Ljubljana, Slovenia
    17th WCET Congress (World Council of Enterostomal Therapists)
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  • August 17-21, 2008
    Singapore
    15th ISNCC International Conference (International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care)

    Early registration deadline is 29th February, 2008
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Welcome EBMT Nurses Group Newsletter

Dear EBMT NG Members,

First of all, a Happy and Healthy New Year to all of you and your families!

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EBMT NG Board at a recent meeting last December in Florence

This is already the 3rd edition of the Nurses Group Newsletter – and sadly my last that I will be able to welcome you to. The work involved in putting together the Newsletter is always a challenge and the editorial subcommittee or rather the Communication & Networking Committee, which much better reflects their task, has worked hard once again and provided an interesting selection of nursing group activities. If you have information you would like to share or know a colleague who has done some interesting work in the care for the haematology/stem cell transplantation patient, please don’t hesitate to contact Sara Zulu who will certainly support you in publishing it in the Newsletter.

Many of you will be getting ready to go to the 24th Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group, which will take place with physicians, data managers and allied health care professionals. Like last year, we will start the event on Saturday 29th March with the 2nd EBMT Patient & Family Day, providing patients and their families with the opportunity to talk to experts and find answers to questions that they may have. On Sunday 30th March the 4th Pre-Meeting Study Day will be held, which will specifically focus on acute leukaemia and nutrition issues.

The start of the conference officially takes place on Monday 31st March and as in previous years we have invited excellent speakers to present their expert knowledge in educational sessions every morning at the start of the day. You may actually find it difficult to make a choice between the many different and interesting topics! However, workshops taking place during the EBMT 2008 Conference will provide lots of opportunities to discuss issues and experience sharing information in smaller more intimate groups. Many of these will take place on the Monday afternoon, so take the opportunity and participate in one of the challenging topics.

Florence is of course a very attractive city with plenty of art, history and culture to explore. But, try not to forget that the main interest should be the knowledge you can gain in discussing professional questions with colleagues. I’m sure that many of you are preparing posters or oral presentations and the board would like to thank all of you that submitted abstracts. We are all curious to learn from what appears to be quite a broad variety of topics!

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all the colleagues that have supported me so strongly throughout the past two years of my presidency of the EBMT Nurses Group Board. It has been a great experience and I would like to wish Erik Aerts, who will step into the role of president immediately after the conference, all the very best!

I look forward to seeing you in Florence!

 

Monica Fliedner
President of the EBMT Nurses Group