LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vanderbilt University Medical Center and The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia (RCH) are driving toward new possibilities with help from Terumo BCT’s 2014 Advancing Apheresis Awards. The award program is the first in Terumo BCT’s industry to fund education grants for the advancement of apheresis. Garrett Booth, MD, MS, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Anthea Greenway, MBBS FRACP FRCPA, Paediatric Haematologist at the RCH, each received $10,000 for their separate projects.
Booth is researching the potential of a mobile application to educate patients, nurses, clinical providers and transfusion medicine trainees to raise the awareness and understanding of apheresis medicine. Greenway will use the educational grant funding to establish standard operating procedures for red blood cell exchange at the RCH and improve educational support provided to children with Sickle Cell Disease.
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