EHA Congress 15th Anniversary - European Hematology Association

2 > EHA Newsletter May 2010
The 15 th Congress of the Eur
This year the annual congress of the European Hem
Over the years the EHA Congress has become a
the specialty. This year the 15 th Congress of EHA
The Scientific Program Comm ittee under the
has again compiled an appealing program
education sessions for scientists, clinic
> An inspiring program of
simultaneous oral and poster sessions
has been selected from a record number
of 2175 abstracts that were submitted.
The six best abstracts will be presented
during the Presidential Symposium on
Saturday June 12. The EHA-ESH Joint
Symposium on Friday June 11 focuses
on communication with patients with
Burkitt’s Lymphoma. In this interactive
session both the difficulties for the
clinician who must explain the need to
commence treatment quickly and the
perspective of patients are discussed.
On Saturday June 12 the first Joint
Symposium of the Japanese Society of
Hematology (JSH) and EHA will be
organized. The topic of this first combined
symposium is a hematological disease
that occurs relatively frequently in Japan
compared to western European countries.
On Saturday, a new session will take
place. In collaboration with the European
Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), the
EHA has organized a patient advocacy
session investigating the relationship
between clinicians and patients. The
session is designed to shed light on the
different views regarding access to clinical
trials. Key views that will be included
are those from of the patient, the researcher/clinician,
journalists, and the
pharmaceutical industry.
The seventh EHA-ASH Joint Symposium
will focus on the delivery of healthcare in
outreach countries. The well-established