{"id":139,"date":"2006-04-01T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T00:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2010-12-05T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T01:21:29","slug":"1st-thalassemia-support-foundation-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/1st-thalassemia-support-foundation-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Thalassemia Support Foundation Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over 50 patients, parents, loved ones, and members of the medical community attended the 1st Annual TSF Conference. Attendees learned about the new oral chelator,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cws.huginonline.com\/N\/134323\/PR\/200511\/1019429_5.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exjade<\/a>, along with other important topics in the Thalassemia community. Guest speakers included Dr. Thomas Coates, Dr. Punam Malik, and Susan Carson, R.N. Morning refreshments and lunch was served to all attendees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=19\" target=\"_blank\">See Photos from the Event!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"90%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><strong>Schedule of Events<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/helpthals.org\/gfx\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"15\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>8:30 &#8211; 9:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Refreshments &amp; Registration<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>9:00 &#8211; 9:15<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Welcome Message &#8211; Paul DiLorenzo, President<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>9:15 &#8211; 10:15<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Dr. Thomas Coates<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><\/td>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Ways to Measure\/Treat Iron Overload\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>10:15 &#8211; 11:15<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Dr. Punam Malik<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><\/td>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gene Therapy for Beta Thalassemia &#8211; Are We There Yet?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>11:15 &#8211; 12:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Susan Carson, R.N.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><\/td>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things You Might Not Be Telling Your Provider &#8211; But Should Be And Why\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>12:00 &#8211; 2:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This event was for patients, parents, loved ones, and members of the medical community to learn about the new oral chelator, Exjade, along with other important topics in the Thalassemia community. Guest speakers include Dr. Thomas Coates, Dr. Punam Malik, and Susan Carson, R.N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helpthals.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}