EBAANZ-BAA Inaugural Conference
EBAANZ and the Biotherapeutics Association of Australasia (BAA) welcome delegates to their inaugural combined meeting, at Martin Auditorium, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, on the 5-6th March 2024.
Registration
Registration is now open via a shared event page (shared with the Corneal Society who will be hosting an event on the 7th-8th March). Please click here to register. Registration to the EBAANZ-BAA event includes 1 ticket to the event drinks session on the 5th of March. Extra guest tickets for the drinks session on the 5th of March are available for $60. To arrange, please contact conference2024@ebaanz.org.
Registration closes on the 26th February 2024 at midnight.
Abstracts
We are no longer accepting abstracts.
Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
- Brian Philippy, Lions Gift of Sight, USA
Brian Philippy has served as an eye banker since he was 18 years old. Finding endless fulfillment in this profession by helping others, Brian has achieved the goal of doing what he loves for a living. His service started with decontaminating instruments for sterilization and assembling recovery kits back in 1997. Since then, he’s held positions in recovery, evaluation, eligibility determination, quality, allocation, and logistics. For seven years while holding a role of Director of Quality and Technical Operations in Norfolk, Virginia, Brian held a concurrent series of roles, including Consultant and Director of Operations for Vision Share, a cooperative allocation agency in the US. Collecting and analyzing data for continual process improvement also brings him joy. For the Eye Bank Association of America, Brian serves on the Medical Advisory Board, Accreditation Board, Statistical Reporting Committee, and an ever-evolving array of subcommittees. For the Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations, Brian is a Data Champion and is currently involved in a large eye bank mapping project. These commitments and efforts earned Brian the EBAA’s Leonard B. Heise Award in 2021. Brian currently serves as Director of Business Development at Lions Gift of Sight in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His wife is the Director of Distribution, Quality, and Donor Services at the Lions Medical Eye Bank of Eastern Virginia. His daughter, Kendra, is a Donor Coordinator for Lions Gift of Sight and his other daughter, Hailey, is pursuing a degree from the University of Minnesota (his alma mater).
Invited Speakers:
- Lucinda Barry – CEO, Organ and Tissue Authority, ACT
- Martin Börgel – Director, DGFG, Germany (Chair of the World Union of Tissue Bank Associations)
- Peter Davis – Director, Blood Bikers Australia, QLD
- Matt Ellis – Donatelife VIC, VIC
- Dr Marisa Herson – Tissue Advisor to the WHO and Chair of the Australian Eye and Tissue Advisory Committee, Melbourne
- Samantha Higgins – Quality Manager, Victoria Cancer Biobank, Melbourne
- Dr Dominique Martin – Bioethicist, Deakin University, Geelong
- Sean Poppoff – Director, Lions Gift of Sight, USA
- Gary Rockl, Héma-Québec, Canada
- Diletta Trojan – Director, Fondazione Banca dei Tessuti del Veneto ETS, Italy
- Larna Woodyatt – Nurse Donation Specialist, Donatelife VIC and Grampians Health Ballarat, VIC
Further speaker details to follow.
Program:
This year’s program includes a range of topics and discussions across eye and tissue banking and biobanking, covering donor criteria, the ethics of consent, the role of banks in research allocation, international development and collaboration, the changing landscape of the field, future therapies and up-dates from partners and collaborators around Australia and the World.
Click here to view the program. Prelim Program (as at 16/02/2024) subject to change.
Touring Melbourne CBD Banks:
Registered delegates will be invited to tour Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria and Lions Eye Donation Service. These tours will be arranged closer to the event.
Special thanks to our organisers
Convenors: Dr Heather Machin and Chris van Diemen
Committee: Chantel Bartolo, Bronwyn Cohen, Kellie Hamilton, Amila Peiris, Brendon Sullivan, Andrew Tracy, and Gavin Van Der Meer.
Host Banks: Lions Eye Donation Service at the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bone Bank at Barwon Health, Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria, and Lifeblood VIC.