Scientific Program
CME Program (Day 1 - Thursday, 6th November 2025)
| Time | Hall A | Hall B | Hall C | Hall D | |||
| 08:00 AM Onwards | Registration | ||||||
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Laboratory | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Clinical | Oral Paper: Benign Hematology - Laboratory | Oral paper: Benign Hematology - Clinical | |||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: Red Blood Cell Disorders | Session 1: Thrombotic Disorders-I | Session 1: Laboratory Technologist CME | Session 1: Nursing CME | |||
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia | Approach to a case of Arterial thrombosis | How to prepare a good peripheral smear? | Safe Chemotherapy Mixing and Managing Extravasations of chemo drugs | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Harish Chandra | Dr. Sanjeevan Sharma | Dr. Samira Kumar Behera | Dr. Shazia Gulshan | |||
| 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | Drug Induced Immune Hemolytic anemia | Role of Fibrinolytic Pathway in Thrombosis | Stains in Hematology Practice: Role and relevance in current era | Critical role of Central line care in Hematology Practice | |||
| Speaker | Dr. K K Radhika | Dr. Bipin Prakash Kulkarni | Dr. Jasashwi Chakraborty | Dr. Arijit Bishnu | |||
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Anemia in Elderly | Pitfalls in diagnosis of APLA syndrome? | Bone marrow biopsy: Processing, quality control and related issues | Febrile neutropenia: What a nursing staff should know? | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Vijai Tilak | Dr. Sabina Langer | Dr. Surabhi | Dr. Avinash Singh | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Tea - Coffee Break | ||||||
| 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 2: White Cell Disorders | Session 2: Thrombotic Disorders -II | Session 2: Laboratory Technologist CME | Session 2: Nursing CME | |||
| 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM | Approach to a case of Leukocytosis | Update in Cancer associated thrombosis | How to set up a Coagulation lab ? | Hospital Waste Management: Roles and responsibilities | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Richa Chauhan | Dr. Rayaz Ahmad | Dr. Mansi Kala | Dr. Kirti Srivastava | |||
| 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM | Inherited Neutrophil Disorders | How I workup & treat Cortical Venous thrombosis? | Laboratory approach to Hemolytic anemia | Physiotherapy in Hemophilia: A specialized entity | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Vidisha Mahajan | Dr. Neeraj Sidharthan | Dr. Shailaja Shukla | Dr. Rohini Dange | |||
| 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | Approach to a case of "Hypereosinophilic Syndrome" | Heparin Induced thrombocytopenia: What a clinician should know? | Beyond basic lab training: Options and opportunities | Infection prevention practices in BMT unit | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Hitha B | Dr. Bhushan Asthana | Mr. Sitaram Ghogale | Dr. Poorvi Kapoor | |||
| 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM | Session 3: Platelet Disorders | Session 3: Infections in Haematological Settings | Session 3: Laboratory Technologists CME | Session 3: Nursing CME | |||
| 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM | When to suspect & How to approach Inherited platelet disorders? | Newer diagnostic modalities for Infections in Hematology practice | New parameters in Automated Blood analyzers | Nutritional Care in Hematology patients | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Rucha Patil | Dr. N V Ramaswamy | Dr. Garima Anandani | Dr. Ankita Sen | |||
| 12:35 PM - 12:55 PM | Management of ITP in 2025 | Pyrexia of unknown origin in Hematology Practice | Setting up a molecular lab | Sequence of Steps in MUD Workup | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Harshit Khurana | Dr. Priyanka Samal | Dr. Shivangi Haran Khedkar | Ms. Jackulin Mary | |||
| 12:55 PM - 01:15 PM | Acquired Funtional Disorders of Platelets | Diagnosis & Management of Febrile neutropenia | Role of laboratory in bone marrow transplant | Evolving role of Hematology nursing practice | |||
| Speaker | Col.(Dr) Priyanka Mishra | Dr. Varun Bafna | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta | Dr. Gaurav Dixit | |||
| 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM | Lunch Break and Poster Walk | ||||||
| 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session 4: Panel Discussion | Session 4: Panel Discussion | Session 4: Blood & Blood Component Transfusion | Session 4: Plasma Cell Disorders | |||
| 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM | Panel Discussion 1: Approach to a case of Pancytopenia | Panel Discussion 3: PNH: Diagnosis & Management | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Transfusion support in Autoimmune Hemolytic anemia | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Monoclonal Gammopathies: Newer Aspects | |
| Moderator: Dr. Narender Tejwani Panelists: Dr. Bharti Thaker Dr. Rama Hariharan Dr. Deepak Charles Dr. Subhash Chandra Jha Dr. Riju Rani Deka |
Moderator: Dr. Rajib De Panelists: Dr. Yatendra Parashar Dr. Debranjani Chattopadhyay Dr. Sreeya Das Dr. Mona Vijayaran Dr. Shinto Francis |
Speaker | Dr. Prashant Agarwal | Speaker | Dr. Deepa Rani | ||
| 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM | Panel Discussion 2: Role of flow cytometry in Non Malignant Hematology | Panel Discussion 4: Essential Thrombocythemia | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Transfusion in critical care settings | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Risk stratification in Multiple Myeloma: Current Practice | |
| Moderator: Dr. Sarika Singh Panelists: Dr. Gurleen Oberoi Dr. Aastha Gupta Dr. Anu Singh Dr. Lakshita Singh Dr. Sreya PB |
Moderator: Dr. Gaurav Chhabra Panelists: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dr. Akanksha Garg Dr. Shilpi Saxena Dr. Avriti Baveja Dr. Ashok Rajoreya |
Speaker | Dr. Sachin Bansal | Speaker | Dr. Rohan Halder | ||
| 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Transfusion related acute lung Injury (TRALI): What is new? | 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia- How to fine tune the treatment? | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Shreelatha Raghuram | Speaker | Dr. Venkatesh Ekbote | ||||
| 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM | Session 5: Indian College of Hematology & AOP | Session 5: Laboratory Hematology- I | Session 5: Blood & Blood Component Transfusion | Session 5: Lymphomas | |||
| 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM | Inauguration of Joint Session | Laboratory Accreditation in Hematology | Techniques of Hemoglobin estimation in blood donors: Current insight and future directions | Early favourable Hodgkin Lymphoma: Balancing the see-saw! | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Somanath Padhi | Dr. Anju Dubey | Dr. Rajesh Krishna | ||||
| 03:35 PM - 03:55 PM | Neonatal Anemia: A difficult Entity | The science & art of peripheral smear examination | Platelet transfusion strategies: What is the evidence? | DLBCL Pathology: What is new? | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Nishant Verma | Dr. Rumma Manchanda | Dr. Anubha Srivastava | Dr. Parimal Sarda | |||
| 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM | Challenges during Pediatric to adult transition in thalassemia | Marrow metastasis: How should we approach? | Pathogen Inactivation of Blood and Blood products | Role of molecular methods in sorting problematic diagnosis in Lymphoma | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Savitri Singh | Dr. Tulika Chandra | Dr. Ankita Jaiswal | ||||
| 04:15 PM - 04:35 PM | Tea - Coffee Break | ||||||
| 04:35 PM - 05:15 PM | Session 6: Indian College of Hematology & FOGSI | 04:35 PM - 05:35 PM | Session 6: Laboratory Hematology - II | 04:35 PM - 05:35 PM | Session 6: Apheresis | 04:35 PM - 05:35 PM | Session 6: Acute Leukemias |
| 04:35 PM - 04:55 PM | Obstetric DIC: Obstetrics Perspective | 04:35 PM - 04:55 PM | Difficult cases of Hemolytic anemia: My experience | 04:35 PM - 04:55 PM | Granulocyte transfusion: Is it useful? | 04:35 PM - 04:55 PM | Recent advances in CNS Directed therapy in Pediatric ALL |
| Speaker | Dr. Amita Pandey | Speaker | Dr. Richa Gupta | Speaker | Dr. Ashok Meshram | Speaker | Dr. Vineeta Gupta |
| 04:55 PM - 05:15 PM | Obstetric DIC: Hematologist perspective | 04:55 PM - 05:15 PM | Cell counter plots: They tell many things | 04:55 PM - 05:15 PM | Stem cell mobilization strategies: Role of Plerixafor | 04:55 PM - 05:15 PM | Acute leukemia of Ambiguous lineage: How to diagnose ? |
| Speaker | Dr. Vishnu Sharma | Speaker | Dr. Naveen Kakkar | Speaker | Dr. Abhishek Maurya | Speaker | Dr. Aastha Gupta |
| 05:15 PM - 05:35 PM | HPLC plots: Reading between the peaks | 05:15 PM - 05:35 PM | Therapeutic Apheresis in Hematological Disorders | 05:15 PM - 05:35 PM | Cracking the code: The Role of molecular testing in AML | ||
| Speaker | Dr. Gurmeet Singh | Speaker | Dr. Meenu Bajpai | Speaker | Dr. Neha Singh | ||
| 05:15 PM - 06:55 PM | Session 7: Indian College of Hematology & API | 05:35 PM - 07:05 PM | Session 7: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms | 05:35 PM - 06:05 PM | Session 7: Panel Discussion 6: Blood & component transfusion in Infants and children | 05:35 PM - 06:35 PM | Session 7: Panel Discussion |
| Moderator: Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal Panelists: Dr. Shalini Tripathi Dr. Archana Solanki Dr. Saroj Rajput Dr. Ashutosh Singh Dr. Dibyajyoti Sahoo |
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| 05:15 PM - 05:35 PM | Approach to thrombocytopenia made easy | 05:35 PM - 05:55 PM | Bone Marrow Morphology In Ph-negative MPN's | 06:05 PM - 06:45 PM | Session 8: Platelets: What's New ? | 05:35 PM - 06:05 PM | Panel Discussion 7: Approach to a case of Bleeding disorder (Case based) |
| Speaker | Dr. Jyotirmoy Pal | Speaker | Dr. Bidyut Goswami | Moderator: Dr. Varun Kaul Panelists: Dr. Roopam Deka Dr. Jasdeep Singh Dr. Irom Anil Singh Dr. Javid Rasool Dr. Upase Dnyaneshwar |
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| 05:35 PM - 05:55 PM | Emergencies in Leukemia treatment: What a physician should know? | 05:55 PM - 06:15 PM | Role of interferon in managing patients with MPN | 06:05 PM - 06:25 PM | Role of Flow Cytometry in Diagnosis of Platelet Disorder | ||
| Speaker | Dr. Pritish Chandra Patra | Speaker | Dr. Chepsy C Philip | Speaker | Dr. Tulasi Geevar | ||
| 05:55 PM - 06:15 PM | Anemia not responding to Hematinics | 06:15 PM - 06:35 PM | How to manage thrombosis and bleeding in MPN patients ? | 06:05 PM - 06:45 PM | IPF :Newer Insights | 06:05 PM - 06:35 PM | Panel Discussion 8: Approach to a case of Infection in transplant setting (Case based) |
| Speaker | Dr. Shekhar Chakraborty | Speaker | Dr. Aditi Jain | Speaker | Dr. Gp. Capt. Preeti Tripathi | Moderator: Dr. Faheema Hasan Panelists: Dr. Akash Khandelwal Dr. Neha Ganju Dr. Aditya Jandial Dr. Poorvi Kapoor Dr. Faraz Ahmed |
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| 06:15 PM - 06:35PM | Sickle Crises: time is life | 06:35 PM - 07:05 PM | Panel Discussion 5: JAK Inhibition in Myelofibrosis: Evolving Landscape | Session 9: TBD | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Biswajit Bhuyan | Moderator: Dr. Sreeraj Panelists: Dr. DSK Sahitya Dr. Mir Sadaqat Hassan Zafa Dr. Deepika Gupta Dr. Sohini Chattopadhyay Dr. Madhu Mithra |
06:45 PM - 07:05 PM | TBD | |||
| 06:35 PM - 06:55 PM | Indian Stigma Scale of SCD: A new validation | 06:35 PM - 06:55 PM | Session 8: Global Hemostasis Rotational Thromboelastometry: Conforming to Precision Medicine in coagulopathic bleeding management |
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| Speaker | Dr. Bontha V Babu | Speaker | Dr. Mayur Parihar | Speaker | Dr. Ajay Gandhi | ||
| 06:55 PM - 07:35 PM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Adley | 07:05 PM - 07:35 PM | TBD | 07:05 PM - 07:35 PM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Zydus | 06:55 PM - 07:15 PM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Medgenome |
| 07:15 PM - 07:35 PM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Core | ||||||
| 07:35 PM Onwards | Dinner Venue: Holiday Inn Lawn | ||||||
Workshop Program (Day 1 - Thursday, 6th November 2025)
01 Workshop 02 Workshop 03 Workshop 04 Workshop 05 Workshop 06 Workshop 07 Workshop 08 Workshop 09 Workshop 10 WorkshopWorkshop Details (Day 1 - Thursday, 6th November 2025)
| Sl No. | Workshop Name | Institute Address | Program Coordinators | No. of Participants |
| 1 | Laboratory Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders | Venue: Coagulation Lab (1st Floor), Room no 203; Department of Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Dr. Rashmi Kushwaha | Seats are full. |
| 2 | Bone Marrow Aspiration & Biopsy: Comprehensive Approach | Venue: Digital Lab (Ground Floor); Department of Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Dr. Tejinder Singh Dr. Mili Jain |
Seats are full. |
| 3 | Flow Cytometry (Basic approach to Acute Leukemias and CLPDs) | Venue: Neuropathology Seminar Room (2nd Floor); Department of Pathology; King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Dr. Khaliqur Rahman Dr. Geeta Yadav |
Seats are full. |
| 4 | Advanced Cytogenetics: Karyotyping and FISH Techniques in Hematological Diagnostics | Venue: Room Number 413; Kalam Centre; King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Dr. Nitu Nigam | Seats are full. |
| 5 | Artificial Intelligence in Hematology | Venue: Room No. 403; Kalam Centre; King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Dr. Anjali Kelkar Dr. Sanjay Mishra |
Seats are full. |
| 6 | PICC Line Insertion, Care and Maintenance | Venue: Basement 2, Auditorium; Apollomedics Superspeciality Hospital, Alambagh; Lucknow | Dr. Priyanka Chauhan | 8 |
| 7 | Lymphoma Morphology & IHC | Venue: Department of Pathology, Academics Block; 3rd Floor; Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow | Dr. Pradyumn Singh | 5 |
| 8 | Hemoglobinopathy Diagnosis | Venue: Department of Pathology, Academics Block; 3rd Floor; Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow | Dr. (Prof.) Namrata P. Awasthi | 12 |
| 9 | CAR T-Cell Therapy | Venue: Gomti Reference Room, Lower Basement; Medanta Hospital, Lucknow | Dr. Anshul Gupta Dr. Ganesh Jaiteshwar |
Seats are full. |
| 10 | Stem Cell Apheresis and Cryopreservation | Venue: Ganga Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Medanta Hospital, Lucknow | Dr. Ashish Tiwari Dr. Sujeet Kumar |
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Scientific Program (Day 2 - Friday, 7th November 2025)
| Time | Hall A | Hall B | Hall C | Hall D | ||||
| 08:00 AM Onwards | Registration | |||||||
| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | Meet the Professor | |||||||
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Laboratory | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Clinical | Oral Paper: Benign Hematology - Laboratory | Oral paper: Benign Hematology - Clinical | ||||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: Myelodysplastic Syndrome | Session 1: Acute Myeloid Leukemia- I | Session 1: Hemoglobinopathies | Session 1: Hematopoietic stem cell transplant | ||||
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | MDS Diagnosis: Morphology is still the backbone | MRD assessment in AML | NTDT: Laboratory Diagnosis | Risk factors, Biomarkers and prognostic scores: A preventive approach to GVHD | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Debdutta Basu | Dr. P G Subramanian | Dr. Vijay Kumar | Dr. Ajay Sharma | ||||
| 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | Integrating molecular profile in risk assessment of MDS | Management of AML in 2025: Is 3+7 induction still a reasonable option? | Recent advances in understanding of Iron overload and Iron Chelation | Chronic GVHD: Targeted strategies and noval endpoints | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Nikhil Patkar | Dr. Nalini Pati, Australia | Dr. Shruti Kakkar | Dr. Navin Khattry | ||||
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | High risk MDS: Front line treatment options in 2025 | Relapsed refractory AML: Molecular targets and outcomes | Thalassemia Transplant: Current Status | Comprehensive Pre-Allo SCT workup: Role of laboratory | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Auro Viswabandya, Canada | Dr. M B Agarwal | Dr. Rahul Naithani | Dr. Eunice Sindhuvi | ||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Tea - Coffee Break & Poster walk | |||||||
| 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | Session 2: ISHBT-ASH Joint Session: Myeloma (Hall A) | |||||||
| 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM | Cancer Metabolism: Implications for Multiple Myeloma Therapy | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Mala Shanmugam, Atlanta | |||||||
| 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM | Advances in the treatment of Multiple Myeloma | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Noopur Raje, Boston | |||||||
| 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | Multiple myeloma-Indian perspective | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Tapan Saikia | |||||||
| 12:15 PM -12:30 PM | Discussion | |||||||
| 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Sponsored Symposium - Novartis | Session 3: Industry Sponsored Symposium - ROCHE | 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Sponsored Symposium - Pfizer | 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Session 3: Approach to spuriously low platelet count | ||
| Speaker | Dr. JM Khunger | |||||||
| 12:50 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium- Transasia | |||||||
| 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM | Lunch Break & Poster Evaluation | |||||||
| 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session 4: Oration: Dr. J G Parekh | Session 4: Acute Myeloid Leukemia II | Session 4: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | Session 4: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant | ||||
| In the Era of Molecular Pathology, Is there any role of marrow morphology in diagnosis of MPNs ? | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | AML Biology: Recent Advances | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | CLL Diagnosis: What a clinician should know? | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Viral infections in post transplant settings: A systematic approach | ||
| Orator: | Dr. Tejinder Singh | Speaker | Dr. Neeraj Arora | Speaker | Dr. Abhishek Purohit | Speaker | Dr. Mathew Thomas | |
| 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Management of CBF-Mutated AML in 2025 | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Evolving front line management of CLL | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Ex-vivo manipulation of stem cells: Need, benefits and limitations | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Jayastu Senapati, USA | Speaker | Dr. Ganesh Jaishetwar | Speaker | Dr. Shreyans Gandhi, London | |||
| 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Relapsed APML: Evidence based Management in current Era | 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Relapsed refractory CLL: Treatment options & Outcomes | 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Debate : Auto SCT Vs CAR-T therapy for Relapsed/Refractory High grade lymphoma | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Uday Prakash Kulkarni | Speaker | Dr. Vishvdeep Khushoo | Auto SCT Speaker CAR-T Speaker |
Dr. Arun VA Dr. Prashant Mehta |
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| 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM | Session 5: Immunodeficiency Diseases | Session 5: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Session 5: Low Grade Lymphomas - I | Session 5: Hemostasis | ||||
| Chairperson | Dr. Kaustav Ghosh | |||||||
| 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM | Advances in cell therapy: Potential application in the treatment of Error of Immunity | 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM | ALL: Current risk stratification | 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM | Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphomas: Diagnostic considerations | 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM | Anticoagulant monitoring : The critical role of Anti Xa testing | |
| Speaker | Dr. Neena Kapoor, Los Angeles | Speaker | Dr. Sudhir Kumar Atri | Speaker | Dr. Nabhajit Malik | Speaker | Dr. Jyoti Kotwal | |
| 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM | Unmasking the Invisible: A deep Dive into Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases | 03:35 PM - 03:55 PM | A simple path of Non transplant-Management of Ph+ ALL in 2025 | 03:35 PM - 03:55 PM | POD24 in Follicular lymphoma: Clinical Implications and prognostic significance | 03:35 PM - 03:55 PM | Role of Global Hemostasis in management of patients with Bleeding | |
| Speaker | Dr. Rajat Kumar, Canada | Speaker | Dr. Pravas Mishra | Speaker | Dr. Sitalakshmi Subramanian | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Sudhir Gupta, USA | 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM | Transplant in ALL: Why, Who, when and how? | 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM | Richter Transformation: Is there any ray of hope? | 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM | Managing Anticoagulation in Perioperative period | |
| Speaker | Dr. Dharma Choudhary? | Speaker | Dr. Naveen Gupta | Speaker | Dr. Upendra Sharma | |||
| 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM | Tea - Coffee Break & Poster walk | |||||||
| 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | Session 6: ISHBT - ASIAN Joint Symposium - ITP | Session 6: CML / Hematology Education | Session 6: Low Grade Lymphomas - II | Session 6: Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes | ||||
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Immune thrombocytopenia (Any Aspect) | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | BCR-ABL monitoring: Recent Guidelines | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Essentials of Lab approach to a case of low grade lymphomas | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Current Understanding of Pathophysiology of Aplastic Anemia | |
| Speaker | Dr. Chia Jen Liu, Taipei (Virtual) | Speaker | Dr. D K Mishra | Speaker | Dr. Jasmita Das | Speaker | Dr. Soniya Nityanand | |
| 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Immune thrombocytopenia (Any Aspect) | 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | How to approach resistance mutations in CML? | 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Management of Hairy Cell Leukemia: Where do we stand today? | 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Update on non transplant management of Aplastic Anemia | |
| Speaker | Dr. Amin Lutful Kabir, Bangladesh | Speaker | Dr. Pankaj Malhotra | Speaker | Dr. Girish V Badarkhe | Speaker | Dr. Manoranjan Mahapatra | |
| 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Immune Thrombocytopenia (Indian Perspective) | 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Hematology Education in India: The way forward | 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Marginal zone Lymphomas: Is operational cure possible? | 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Alternative donor transplant in Severe aplastic anemia: Current status | |
| Speaker | Dr. Kundan Mishra | Speaker | Dr. Subhash Varma | Speaker | Dr. Debmalya Bhattacharya | Speaker | Dr. Biju George | |
| 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Session 7: Sickle Cell Disease | 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Session 7: Hemophilia | 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Session 7: Rare Hematological Neoplasms (Case Based Presentation - 10 minutes each faculty ) | 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Session 7: Medico legal Aspects/Rare Hematological Disorders | |
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Collaboration of India &Africa in controlling Sickle cell disease at Global Level; Role of Global sickle cell disease Network | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Clinical Utility of D-Dimers in Hematology Practice | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | CNL & CSF3R related Disorders | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Medicolegal Aspects In Hematology Practice | |
| Speaker | Prof. Isaac Odame, Canada (Virtual) | Speaker | Dr. Sukesh C. Nair | Speaker | Dr. Basab Bagchi Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Ray |
Speaker | Dr. Atul Mehta, London | |
| 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Understanding the pain of VOC in SCD and its Innovative Management; Experimental model | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Hemophilia Management in 2025: Where do we stand? | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Acute leukemia of Ambiguous lineage: Diagnosis & Management | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Post transplant lymphoproliferative Disorder | |
| Speaker | Dr. Kalpna Gupta, California | Speaker | Dr. Anupam Dutta | Speaker | Dr. Abhishek Sharma Dr. Sumit Mitra |
Speaker | Dr. Subhprakash Sanyal | |
| 06:10 PM - 06:30 PM | New and emerging pharmacological therapies for SCD; do we have magic bullets, or should the search continue? | 06:10 PM - 06:30 PM | The art and science of Inhibitor management in Hemophilia | 06:10 PM - 06:30 PM | Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis | 06:10 PM - 06:30 PM | Paediatric B-ALL MRD: Panels & Pitfalls | |
| Speaker | Dr. Zenaide Quezado, Bethesda | Speaker | Dr. Sheikh Bilal | Speaker | Dr. Zachariah Choudhary Dr. Nitin Gupta |
Speaker | Dr. P. Lalita Jyotsna | |
| 06:30PM -07:00PM | Session 8: Hodgkin Lymphoma Recent Updates (Reaching closer to the finish line: Impact of biology on the management of classic Hodgkin Lymphoma) | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Ranjana Advani, Stanford | |||||||
| 07:00PM - 07:30 PM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - INTAS Pharma | Industry Sponsored Symposium - STAGO | Industry Sponsored Symposium - AstraZeneca | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Zydus | ||||
| 07:30 PM - 08:00 PM | INAUGURATION CEREMONY in (Hall A) | |||||||
| 08:00 PM Onwards | Dinner Venue: Holiday Inn | |||||||
Scientific Program (Day 3 - Saturday, 8th November 2025)
| Time | Hall A | Hall B | Hall C | Hall D | ||||
| 07:00 AM - 08:00 AM | Walk for Hematology Awareness | |||||||
| 08:00 AM Onwards | Registration | |||||||
| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | Meet the Professor | |||||||
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Laboratory | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Clinical | Oral Paper: Benign Hematology - Laboratory | Oral paper: Benign Hematology - Clinical | ||||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Sesion 1: National Hematology Quiz among Post Doctoral Students | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: Aggressive NHL: Controversies | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: MDS/MPN | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: Morphology Matters in Hematology | |
| Quiz Coordinator | Dr. Debmalya Bhattacharya | 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | CNS prophylaxis in Aggressive B-Cell Lymphomas | 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Diagnostic approach to MDS/MPN: How to troubleshoot | 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Morphology in Haematology - From existential crises to Immortal longevity | |
| Speaker | Dr. Kishore Kumar Saravanan | Speaker | Dr. S Venkateshan | Speaker | Dr. Ankur Ahuja | |||
| 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | How to sequence therapy of Relapsed/ Refractory DLBCL | 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | Atypical CML: Diagnosis & Treatment | 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | Platelet Indices and morphological variations as diagnostic tools in hematological disorders | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh | Speaker | Dr. Aby Abraham | Speaker | Dr. Renu Saxena | |||
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Debate: Auto SCT in Mantle cell lymphoma in Current Era | 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | My understanding of MPN-U | 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | AI role in Hematological Diagnosis & Management | |||
| FOR AGAINST |
Dr. Shuvra Neel Baul Dr. AMVR Narendra |
Speaker | Dr. Pankhi Dutta, Dubai | Speaker | Dr. Prantar Chakrabarti | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Tea - Coffee Break & Poster walk | |||||||
| 11:15 AM-12:30 AM | Session 2: ISHBT-EHA Joint Session: Thalassemia (Hall A) | |||||||
| 11:15 AM-11:35 AM | Diagnosis of Hemoglobinopathies - Indian Perspective | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Tuphan Kanti Dolai | |||||||
| 11:35 AM- 11:55 AM | Overview on the management of Thalassemia including gene therapy | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Miguel Abboud, Lebanon | |||||||
| 11:55AM-12:15 AM | Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) for hemoglobinopathies | |||||||
| Speaker | Dr. Erfan Nur, Netherlands | |||||||
| 12:15PM -12:30 PM | Discussion | |||||||
| 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium-ABBVIE | Session 3: Industry Symposium - Bharat Serum | ||||||
| 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium - Novonordisk | 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium: Immunoact | |||||
| 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium | 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM | Session 3: Industry Symposium: DKMS | |||||
| 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM | Lunch Break & Poster Evaluation | |||||||
| 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session 4: Oration: Dr. J B Chatterjee |
Session 4: Hodgkin Lymphoma | Session 4: Bleeding Disorders | Session 4: Autoimmune Disorders | ||||
| Sickle Cell Disease in India: Past, Present & Future | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Diagnostic Difficulties in Hodgkin Lymphoma | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Challenges in Diagnosis of vWD in LMIC's | 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM | Cold AIHA: What should be the best treatment strategy? | ||
| Orator: | Dr. RK Jena | Speaker | Dr. Saumyaranjan Mallick | Speaker | Dr. Jasmina Ahluwalia | Speaker | Dr. Jina Bhattacharyya | |
| 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Hodgkins Lymphoma in Elderly: My Approach | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | How I manage a bleeding disorder during Pregnancy | 02:35 PM - 02:55 PM | Evans Syndrome: Diagnosis & treatment | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Amit Khurana | Speaker | Dr. Prakash Kumar Mandal | Speaker | Dr. Suman Kumar Pramanik | |||
| 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Managing long term toxicities of Hodgkins lymphoma treatment | 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | Is there need of HMB clinics for Adolescents | 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM | ALPS: Current understanding | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Farah Jijina | Speaker | Dr. Naresh Gupta | Speaker | Dr. Manisha Madkaikar | |||
| 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM | Session 5: CAR-T Cell Therapy | Session 5: Myeloma | Session 5: Myeloid Malignancies | Session 5: Updates in Hemophilia | ||||
| 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM | CAR-T Cell therapy: Role of laboratory | How I manage newly Diagnosed Multiple myeloma in 2025 | How I manage AML patients post AZA+Ven Failure? | Gene therapy for Hemophilia: A Success story | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Prashant Tembhare | Dr. Shaji Kumar, USA (Virtual) | Dr. Arihant Jain | Dr. Chandrakala S | ||||
| 03:35 PM - 03:55 PM | ICANS: Diagnosis and Management | Sequencing therapies in relapse refractory Multiple Myeloma | AML with Genetic predisposition: My approach | Long term factor prophylaxis: Ways and outcomes | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Uday R Popat, USA | Dr. Dinesh Bhurani | Dr. Rahul Bhargava | Dr. Meera Varadarajan | ||||
| 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM | Late complications of CAR-T cell therapy and mitigating strategies | BCMA based CAR-T cell therapy for Multiple Myeloma | Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasms | Strategies for perioperative hemostasis in Hemophilia Surgery | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Paneesha Shankara, UK | Dr. Sukanya Gogoi, London | Dr. Sweta Rajpal | Dr. Tulika Seth | ||||
| 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM | Tea - Coffee Break & Poster walk | |||||||
| 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | Session 6: Oration: Dr. Malati Sathe |
Session 6: Primary Amyloidosis and RBC membrane disorders | Session 6: Thrombotic microangiopathies | Session 6: Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes | ||||
| Aplastic Anemia : Challenges in Management of Aplastic Anemia in India | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Primary Amyloidosis: Treatment Strategies and Challenges | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Laboratory approach to a suspected case of Microangiopathic Hemolytic anemia | 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Approach to telomere biology Disorders | ||
| Orator: | Dr. Manoranjan Mahapatra | Speaker | Dr. Uday Yanamandara | Speaker | Dr. Rakhee Kar | Speaker | Dr. Sreejesh Sreedharanunni | |
| 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Inherited RBC Membrane disorders: My Approach | 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Transplant associated TMA: Multifactorial Disease with poor outcomes | 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM | Fanconi anemia: Management in Modern Era | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Mohandas Narla, New York | Speaker | Dr. Nataraj K S | Speaker | Dr. Sharat Damodar | |||
| 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | LCDD & MGRS: Case based Presentation | 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Atypical HUS: Management pearls | 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM | Severe congenital Neutropenia: Management strategies | |||
| Speaker | Dr. Nishad Dhakate | Speaker | Dr. Akshay Lahoti | Speaker | Dr. Saroj Bala | |||
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Session 7: Miscellaneous | |||||||
| 05:30 PM - 06:10 PM | Session 7: Improving outcomes in Pediatric ALL | 05:30 PM - 06:10 PM | Session 7: Venous Thrombosis | 05:30 PM - 06:10 PM | Session 7: Managing Challenges in Hematology Practice | |||
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Spectrum of Red Cell Membrane Disorders Encountered in India | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Role of CAR-T cell therapy in Pediatric ALL | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Metabolic targeting of platelets to combat thrombosis; dawn of a new paradigm. | 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | TP53 Mutated MDS/AML: Management strategies | |
| Speaker | Dr. Reena Das | Speaker | Dr. Chintan Vyas | Speaker | Dr. Anil Chauhan, USA | Speaker | Dr. Mukul Agarwal | |
| 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS - ISHBT | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | ALL in AYA: New Developments | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Conventional anticoagulation: Is it nonexistent in the Era of DOACs (Debate) | 05:50 PM - 06:10 PM | Toxicities of PD1/PDL1 Inhibitors | |
| ISHBT President | Dr. Sarmila Chandra | Speaker | Dr. Dibyendu De | FOR AGAINST |
Dr. Saikat Dutta Dr. Gopinathan M |
Speaker | Dr. Satyaranjan Das | |
| 06:10PM - 07:10 PM | Session 8: Sponsored Symposium - Novonordisk | Session 8: Industy sponsored Symposium NATCO (MULTIPLE MYELOMA) | Session 8: Industy sponsored Symposium - Takeda | |||||
| 06:10 PM - 06:50 PM | Session 8: Industry sponsored Symposium: AGILUS Labs | |||||||
| 06:50 PM - 07:10 PM | Session 8: Industry sponsored Symposium: Lal Path | |||||||
| 07:10 PM - 08:15 PM | ANNUAL GBM (Hall A) (Declaration of voting results, Award distribution, Welcoming New President) | |||||||
| 08:15 PM Onwards | Dinner Venue: Chancellor Club | |||||||
Scientific Program (Day 4 - Sunday, 9th November 2025)
| Time | Hall A | Hall B | Hall C | Hall D | ||||
| 07:30 AM - 09:00 AM | National ISHBT Hematology Quiz for postgraduates | |||||||
| Quiz Coordinator | Dr. Mukul Agarwal | |||||||
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Laboratory | Oral Paper: Malignant Hematology - Clinical | Oral Paper: Benign Hematology - Laboratory | Oral paper: Benign Hematology - Clinical | ||||
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Tea break | |||||||
| 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Dr. J C Patel Award Session | 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Unipath | 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Dr. J C Patel Award Session (Hall A) | 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Dr. J C Patel Award Session (Hall A) | |
| 10:35 AM - 10:55 AM | Industry Sponsored Symposium - Sebia | |||||||
| 10:55 AM - 11:45 AM | TBD | |||||||
| 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Session 1: Myeloma & Integrated reporting | Session 1: Areas to ponder | Session 1: Consultative Hematology - I | Session 1: Miscellaneous/Interesting case presentations | ||||
| 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM | Myeloma MRD: Is it prime time for clinical use? | Current Clinical Trials of Cellular therapies in Hematology | Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy | IV Iron therapy to treat anemia in Oncology | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. Ritu Gupta | Dr. Sanjay R Jain, Atlanta | Dr. A K Ganju | Dr. Shipla Roy | ||||
| 12:05 AM - 12:25 PM | Integrated reporting - Bench to bedside with case vignettes | Risk management in laboratory: The all new approach | Anemia in Pregnancy | Role of PET -CT in Multiple Myeloma: Current applications and future directions | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. HP Pati | Dr. Neeraj Jain | Dr. Soniya Nityanand | Col Dr. Anurag Jain | ||||
| 12:25 AM - 12:45 PM | Monoclonal Gammopathy of Clinical Significance | Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Current updates | Anemia in ICU settings | HIV Associated Lymphomas | ||||
| Speaker | Dr. A.K. Tripathi | Dr. Maitreyee Bhattacharya | Dr. Ashutosh Panigrahi | Dr. Rajeev Sandal | ||||
| 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM | Session 2: Leukemia management: Special Considerations | Session 2: Marrow Mophology /Interesting lymphoma cases with diagnostic overlap/Dilemma | Session 2: Consultative Hematology - II | Session 2: Rare But Real | ||||
| 12:45 PM - 01:05 PM | Ph- like ALL: Optimal management | 12:45 PM - 01:00 PM | Megakaryocytic abnormalities from ITP to MPN | 12:45 PM - 01:05 PM | Platelet refractoriness: Diagnosis & Solutions | 12:45 PM - 01:00 PM | Congenital Dyseythropoietic Anemia Presenting late | |
| Speaker | Dr. Tribikram Panda | Speaker | Dr. Banashree R | Speaker | Dr. Sudha Sethy | Speaker | Dr. Amrita Saraf | |
| 01:05 PM-01:25 PM | Long term complications and survivorship in Pediatric ALL | 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Interesting Cases of Primary Immunodeficiency | 01:05 PM - 01:25 PM | Catastrophic APLA: Diagnosis & Management | 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Spherocytic anemias: Inherited Vs Acquired | |
| Speaker | Dr. Biswa Prakash Patri | Speaker | Dr. Vandana Puri | Speaker | Dr. Amiya Ranjan Nayak | Speaker | Lt Col Neelabh Nayan | |
| 01:25 PM - 01:45 PM | MRD Assessment in ALL | 01:15 PM - 01:30 PM | Role of bone marrow in diagnosing PUO | 01:25 PM - 01:45 PM | Chemotherapy Induced thrombocytopenia: When & How to intervene? | 01:15 PM - 01:30 PM | Role of T -cell subset analysis in hematology | |
| Speaker | Dr. Priyavadhana B | Speaker | Dr. Gurpreet Kaur Sagoo | Speaker | Dr. Rajesh Kashyap | Speaker | Dr. Prerna Arora | |
| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | The great imitators: Bening enteties resembling Lymphomas | 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Dendritic Cell Neoplasms: Case Presentations | |||||
| Speaker | Dr. Tara Roshni Paul | |||||||
| 01:45 PM - 02:30 PM | Prize Distribution and Validatory function (Hall A) | |||||||