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Join our Virtual Meeting Week from June 22 till June 26th - click here for registration.

Newcomers coffee: Your first time at WMDA? Start the conference with a new set of friends to make you feel at home right away!

GEMS (Group Medium Sized Registries)

Ask WMDA: Is it a challenge to prepare your application for Certification, Qualification or Accreditation? Our accreditation coordinator welcomes you to address all your questions.

Ask WMDA: WMDA staff members are ready to welcome you and answer your questions about WMDA.

EMDIS

Global Development Board Committee

• Welcome - Dunia Jawdat
• COVID-survey - responses of the registries - Ann O'Leary
• Cryopreservation - future or not - the registry point of view - Heidi Elmoazzen
  • NMDP - Steven Devine
  • Australia - TBC
  • Germany - Annette Rasche
• Cord Blood WG - update by Heidi Elmoazzen 
• Registries WG - update by Annette Rasche
• How to stay connected? - Ann O'Leary/Sabine Hildebrand

SEAR Annual Report 2019 - lessons learnt

Thilo Mengling and Mirjam Fechter will provide an update and share the results and takeaways from the SEAR Annual Report 2019.

Quality Board Committee

• Standards Committee - Dena Mercer
  
  • WMDA Standards 2020
  • Crosswalk NetCord-FACT Standards and WMDA Standards
  • Cycle for new version of the WMDA Standards
  • WMDA Standard 1.02
  • Call for new WMDA Standards
• Accreditation Committee - Carolyn Hurley
  
  • New template for accreditation submissions
  • Weekly webinars
  • Guidance available for download
  • Pandemic and compliance with WMDA Accreditation Programme
• Quality & Regulation - Salmah Ahmed
  
  • KPIs by WMDA office
  • Donor centre audit
  • Problem management
  • Maintaining Compliance with remote audits- The Anthony Nolan perspective by Hirasine Sengomona
  • Cryopreservation

WMDA General Membership Meeting

Search, Match & Connect Board Committee

• Welcome - Henny Braund/Mike McCullough
• Future plans: EMDIS / WMDA - Hans-Peter Eberhard
• Recap on Search, Match & Connect Deliverables - Mark Melchers/Alicia Venter
• Recap on EMDIS 4.0 Deliverables - David Steiner
• GRID - Niko Tsitonakis
• Closure

Data Security & Privacy Committee

Hands-on workshop, all you need to know about data privacy and security of your donors.

• Peer-to-peer review project

Donor recruitment during COVID-19 pandemic

The workshop will be hands-on. You will be assigned to a break-out room to share experiences on how donor recruitment strategies have been redefined in the last months. What worked? What did not work?

Donor Care Board Committee

• Welcome - A. Woolfrey/R. Pawson
• Update Donor Suitability on COVID-19 - Dr. Hung
• Statistics in Search & Match Service
• Impact of COVID-19 on the donor side
  • Donor attrition -
  • Donor drop-out
  • Donor concerns
  • Testing of donors

• G-CSF in positive tested donors - preliminary results of WBMT survey - Nina Worel

• Review current recommendations impact on cryopreservation and the impact on the patient - Bronwen Shaw
• SEAR Annual Report - Thilo Mengling
  
  • COVID-19 reports
• Questions
• Closure

Ask WMDA: WMDA staff members are ready to welcome you and answer your questions about WMDA.

World Marrow Donor Day 2020

Moving to a virtual celebration

Coronavirus- 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

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In the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), WMDA has set up several information pages to provide you with an array of useful information and resources.

• June 8: Cord blood banks and COVID-19 results of the survey
  
• May 19: slide presentation at the EU Competent Authorities Meeting
• May 14: WBMT webinar (slides will come)
• May 4: Rapid alert of cryopreservation submitted by the S(P)EAR Committee: SEAR Rapid Alert (updated on June 11th, 2020)
• April 15: Donor suitablity criteria defined by the WMDA Donor Suitability Committee
• March 26: European waiver and link to European information
• March 25: Support from WMDA International Emergency Task Force: link to request for assistance
• March 25: WMDA Cord Blood Selection Service: link to request for assistance here.
• Frequently Asked Questions from WMDA members (only for WMDA members)

• Information for healthcare professionals (including information from WMDA member organisations, general information and information from professional partner organisations)
• WMDA webinars on COVID-19 - experience from WMDA members

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