Departmental Seminar – April 15, 2016
Seminar Series: Spring 2016 ~~ Friday, April 15, 2016
2:00-3:00 PM
“Beyond and Into the Plasma Cell: New Approaches to AL Amyloidosis”
Raymond Comenzo, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Director of Blood Bank and Stem Cell Processing Laboratory
Tufts University School of Medicine
Location & Time:
670 Albany Street
Lobby Level #107/108
2:00-3:00 PM
Friday, April 15, 2016
Target Audience: Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT’s Bulletin).
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to: 1) report that the current therapeutic landscape for patients with systemic AL amyloidosis has exciting highlights and recurrent valleys of despair; 2) recall that only a minority of patients are eligible for stem cell transplant and a significant fraction of them do not achieve complete hematologic responses; and 3) state that the majority of patients are not eligible for stem cell transplant and, while many benefit from bortezomib-based therapies, 40% of those with advanced heart involvement die within a year of diagnosis.
Course Director: Barbara Slack, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.