First Global Blood & Marrow Transplant [GlobalBMT] Conference in Kathmandu with experiences from Nepal, India, Singapore and Sri Lanka

First GlobalBMT Conference organized on November 5, 2017 in Kathmandu fulfilled one of the educational goals of the active collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Global Health and Civil Service Hospital in Kathmandu (Nepal). This collaboration, that over the years has facilitated the establishment of the first BMT Center in Nepal, is aimed at improving the care of hematologic patients in this country, building capacity in BMT, as well as collaborating on projects related to cost-effectiveness and affordability of BMT in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). To this purpose, the main objective of this first GlobalBMT Conference was to gather physicians from BMT centers in South-East Asia to discuss relevant topics in BMT from the perspective of this part of the world and to find common views on standard practices and specific needs

Bone marrow · Bone marrow transplant · Bone marrow transplantation · Family medicine · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sri lanka · Traditional medicine · Blood transfusion and management · Hematological disorders and diagnostics · Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation · Medicine · Internal Medicine · Optometry