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NMDP Council Meeting

As the hub of a worldwide Network of more than 500 leading medical facilities in marrow and blood cell transplantation, the NMDP facilitates more than 260 marrow or blood cell transplants each month.

See 2008 NMDP Council Meeting information

Each year we invite the Network members with whom we work so closely as well as other interested individuals to attend our annual Council Meeting, a dynamic educational event where attendees gain essential training and education on advances in unrelated hematopoietic blood cell transplant.

This meeting offers a series of lecture and workshop sessions designed specifically for individuals representing transplant centers, donor centers, apheresis centers, collection centers, cooperative registries, recruitment groups and cord blood banks. Topics address clinical and scientific advances, operational efficiencies and psychosocial considerations for both donors and recipients.

As part of our commitment to our mission to extend and improve lives through innovative cellular transplant therapies, the NMDP sponsors one individual from each of our Network centers to attend the Council Meeting each year - What is a sponsored attendee? (PDF).

Council Meeting dates

The next Council Meetings are scheduled for:

November 7-9, 2008
November 6-8, 2009

International travel assistance

Attendees who need a visa to travel for this meeting should apply early. To request a letter of invitation to accompany your visa application please contact please contact Sarah Nickolay Gray, NMDP Training & Education Coordinator, at sgray@nmdp.org. For more visa & travel procedure information, visit the following web sites:

Access current visa information at http://travel.state.gov.
Contact any Embassy Consular Section worldwide for additional procedures at http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1265.html

Audio recordings of previous Council Meeting sessions

Audio recordings of many of the sessions and workshops from past Council Meetings are available. To purchase an audio tape or CD from Norcom:

Order through the Norcom Web site at http://www.norcomtapes.com
Or call Norcom at 1 (877) 557-6700, toll-free in the United States, or (952) 927-0050

Poster abstracts from previous Council Meetings

View poster session abstracts from past years:

Contact us

To request information about the Council Meeting, please contact Sarah Nickolay Gray at sgray@nmdp.org or by calling (800) 526-7809, Ext. 8438 or (612) 884-8438.