Programme

Friday 19 September 2025
18:00 – 19:00 Registration Opens
19:00 – 19:05 Welcome: Professor Vernon Louw
19:05 – 20:15 SYMPOSIUM: Hodgkin Lymphoma
Sponsored by Takeda
Chair:  Dr Jaimendra Singh
Treatment for older patients in the modern era
Speaker: Dr Anna Sureda
Case Study : Dr Simon Brett
Q&A
20:15 – 22:00 Canapes and Conversation
Saturday 20 September 2025
07:00 Registration & Exhibition Opens
08:00 – 08:05 Conference Opening : Professor Vernon Louw
08:10 – 09:10 SYMPOSIUM: DLBCL Sponsored by  Roche
Chair: Dr Jaimendra Singh
Double the target, double the impact – a lifeline for DLBCL patients
Speaker : Dr Dima El-Sharkawi
Real-World Experience with Bispecific Antibodies and Chemotherapy in South Africa
Speaker: Dr Jaimendra Singh
Q&A
09:10 – 09:20 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
09:20 – 10:30 Session 1: Aplastic Anaemia 
Chair: Dr Jackie Thomson
09:20 – 09:50 Advances in Stem Cell Transplantation for Aplastic Anaemia
Speaker : Dr Uday Popat
09:50 – 10:15 Stakeholder Updates
DKMS      Ms Erna West
SABMR    Dr Charlotte Ingram
BloodSA  Professor Estelle Verburgh
10:15 – 10:30 Panel Discussion with Q & A
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:10 Session 2: Primary Myelofibrosis
Chair:  Dr Jessica Opie
Pathology review                                                                                                                                                      Speaker: Dr Karissa Mannaru  – Lancet Laboratory
Clinical update in Primary Myelofibrosis Speaker: Dr Jennifer O’Sullivan
Case-study: Dr Hopolang Ranchobe
Panel Discussion with Q & A
12:10 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Session 3: AML  Nurses Symposium
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Chair: Dr Andrew McDonald
Transplantation in AML | From conditioning to consolidation
Speaker: Dr Uday Popat
Case Study : Dr Mariska Stander
Q & A
14:00 – 15:00 Session 4: HHT
Chair: Prof Estelle Verburgh
General Intro to HHT
Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia: What Every Clinician Should Know
Speaker: Dr Hans-Jurgen Mager
Managing Anaemia in HHT
Beyond Transfusions: A Practical Guide to Anaemia in HHT
Speaker Dr Marie Faughnan
Epistaxis: Sclerotherapy
Stopping the Bleed: State-of-the-Art Solutions for HHT-Related Epistaxis
Speaker: Dr Julie Tristan
Pulmonary AVMs
Breathing Easy: Diagnosing and Managing Pulmonary AVMs in HH
Speaker: Prof Mark Chestnut
Panel discussion with Q &A
15:00 – 15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30 – 16:30 Session 5: Proffered Papers

Chairs: Prof Vernon Louw & Prof Ali Bazarbachi

The Haematological features of Primary Immunodeficiency: A retrospective review of the routine laboratory investigations of the South African Primary Immunodeficiency Registry
Dr Helena Cornelissen

Sweating blood and crying for help?
Dr Stephanie Kennedy         
               
LMP1-mediated AP-1 signalling upregulates AICDA to promote EBV-associated lymphoma
Dr Lungile Mapekula

A retrospective audit of the cytogenetic profile and management outcome in Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients treated at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (2017-2021).
Dr Mbongi Mpanza   
               
Point-of-care core needle biopsy for lymphadenopathy: A cost-effective, scalable pathway to early diagnosis in tuberculosis and HIV-endemic settings
Dr David Richardson
               
Sufficient stem cells in fewer harvest days – an advancing Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant programme
Dr Yona Skosana
16:30 – 16:35 Poster Gallery briefing
16:35 – 17:15 Poster session
17:15 – 18:00 SACHAS AGM
19:00 – 23:30 Conference Dinner
Sunday 21 September 2025
08:00 – 09:00 SYMPOSIUM : CML  Sponsored by Novartis
Chair: Dr Pieter De Wit
Advances in CML – New 1L Treatment Option
Speaker : Prof Tim Brümmendorf
Q&A
09:00 – 10:15 Session 6: CLL
Chair: Prof Ali Bazarbachi
09:00 – 09:30 CLL : Fixed Duration Therapy in TN Patients
Speaker:  Prof Gianluca Gaidano  (Sponsored by Astra Zeneca)
09:30 – 10:00 CLL : Continuous Therapy in TN Patients
Speaker:  Prof  Pier Luigi Zinzani  (Sponsored by Beigene)
10:00 – 10:15 Panel discussion
10:15 – 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45  – 11:45 Session 7: Patient Blood Management 
Chair: Prof Vernon Louw
10:45 –  11:10 Patient blood management as value-based care – a WHO perspective 
Speaker: Dr Axel Hoffman
11:10 – 11:35 A blood tut before the cut- pre-operative anaemia management
Speaker: Dr Donat Spahn
11:35 – 11:45 Panel discussion with Q & A 
11:45 – 12:30 Session 8: Multiple Myeloma
Chair:  Dr Moses Chatambudza
11:45 – 12:20 Frontline treatment of multiple myeloma
Speaker: Prof Ali Bazarbachi  (Sponsored by J & J)
12:20 – 12:30 Q & A
12:30 – 13:05 Session 9: Ethics
Chair:  Dr Lucille Singh
Clinical Trials in the South African Context – The Promise and the Perils
12:30 – 12:45 Patient Perspectives: Mr Gert Frederick Van Rooyen
12:45 – 13:05 South African Clinical Trial Landscape: Dr Jacques Malherbe
13:05 – 13:15 Q & A
13:15 – 13:20 Conference Closing 
Professor Vernon Louw
13:20 Light luncheon
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