![]() ![]() We know our traditional paradigms of operation and thinking must constantly evolve to ensure we are best able to meet patient requirements in a rapidly changing health-care environment. Like our international peers, Canadian Blood Services is relentlessly pursuing the value-driven transformations required to adapt to our changing contexts and maintain a secure supply of blood and blood products, remain relevant to generous but busy donors, and deliver “health-care dividends” to funding governments and taxpayers. What does our future hold? Transfusion and transplantation practices are changing, technological innovation is upon us, political, fiscal and demographic trends are both driving innovation and posing new challenges, and private sector competition for raw materials in the form of commercial plasma collectors is a new reality. Our model has been an essential engine in moving Canada's blood system from the crisis of contaminated blood in the 1980s and 1990s to the confidence Canadians express in their blood system today. One constant has been our work to bring scientific knowledge to bear on essential challenges related to transfusion and transplantation medicine and science in Canada.Ĭanadian Blood Services’ approach to knowledge mobilization and innovation in research and development has created a convergence of essential expertise ranging from education to engineering, benchwork to business, data to discovery. While maintaining a core focus on blood and blood product acquisition and delivery, today Canadian Blood Services also plays a leadership role in the national system for organ and tissue donation and transplantation, conducts and supports world-class research and innovation, and continues to enable more stem cell transplants. Much has changed in the last 20 years, and the organization is serving Canadian patients in a different environment than it did when it was created. ![]() 1C-03-01 Canadian Blood Services Turns 20: Past, Present and FutureĬanadian Blood Services is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2018. ![]() the very bone and marrow of cultural history” (Fielding Garrison, 1870–1935). “The history of medicine is in fact the history of humanity itself, with its ups and downs, its brave aspirations after truth and finality, its pathetic failures. It will highlight some august luminaries who changed the way we practice transfusion medicine today and will discuss successes and failures and what we have learned from them. This talk will review the history of blood transfusion from ancient to modern times, focusing on Canadian contributions to the field. We need to commit to examining as much of the relevant evidence as possible, even if it threatens our own interpretation – use a critical approach to all sources, and especially those that seem to confirm conventional wisdom struggle to overcome personal bias, and, last but not least, resolutely refuse to believe something merely because we wish it to be true. Laboratory Medicine, St Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Canada ![]() No abstract involved 1A-01-02 Ortho and Buchanan Awards and Lectures 1B-02-01 History of Transfusion Medicine in Canada Local Day – Canadian Advances in Transfusion Medicine Over the Years: Past, Present and Future 1A-01-01 Annual General Meeting of CSTM ![]()
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