A national Continuing Medical Education (CME) seminar on ‘Haematopoietic Stem Cell - 2002’ was conducted by Armed Forces Transfusion Centre (AFTC) at Ayurvigyan Auditorium of Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt. It was inaugurated by Lt Gen RK Jetley, DGAFMS and Senior Colonel Commandant of AMC. More than 200 delegates, both from Armed Forces and civil institutions, participated.

Eminent speakers of international and national repute participated in the seminar. While Dr Bhawna Sirohi from Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, UK spoke on ‘allogeneic bone marrow transplantation’ and Dr PM Parikh from TMH, Mumbai discussed the ‘graft manipulation’. Col PS Dhot, Col Rajat Kumar and Lt Col PC Chitalkar focussed on ‘haematopoietic stem cell transplantation’ (HSCT) in Armed Forces. While Dr A Srivastava from CMC, Vellore discussed ‘HSCT in Thalassaemia,’ Dr C Vishwanathan from NPFC, Mumbai covered various aspects of HSCT. Dr Yogesh Chawla from PGI, Chandigarh spoke on recent advances in treatment, of hepatitis and Prof Pradeep Seth from AIIMS, New Delhi on new developments in HIV testing.