What to do if you have ocular GVHD plus

New advances in GVHD treatment

A significant number of patients who undergo a transplant using stem cells from a donor later develop graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in their eyes.

Ocular GVHD can cause pain and vision problems that can make even ordinary daily activities challenging.

Learn what to do and what NOT to do if GVHD has affected your eyes, and get up-to-date information on advances being made to prevent and treat GVHD, at these two workshops presented at the

2024 Celebrating Life Survivorship Symposium

April 27- May 3, 2024  

Graft-versus-Host Disease: Eyes

and

Graft-versus-Host Disease:

Advances and Challenges in Prevention and Treatment

This free symposium is offered online so you can participate from the comfort of your own home or office!

Bring your questions!

THE SYMPOSIUM IS FREE but you must pre-register.

Meet the Workshop Speakers

Graft-versus-Host Disease: Eyes  

Dr. Todd Margolis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

He specializes in infectious and inflammatory eye diseases, corneal disease and uveitis, and helped create an ocular GVHD clinic at Washington University.  

Graft-versus-Host Disease: Advances and Challenges in Prevention and Treatment 

Dr. Iskra Pusic is an Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.  

Her research focuses on survivorship and long-term complications after transplantation, particularly graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

Meet our growing list of symposium partners

Corporate/Foundation Partners

Incyte

Sanofi

Kite

Sobi

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Pharmacyclics, an Abbvie Company

William G. Pomeroy Foundation

Autolus

Transplant and CAR T-cell Center Partners

City of Hope

Cleveland Clinic

Colorado Blood Cancer Institute at HealthOne’s Sarah Cannon

Cancer Institute at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center

Mayo Clinic Transplant Center

Northwestern Medicine Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell

Therapy Program

OhioHealth

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center –

James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

The University of Kansas Cancer Center

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center

University of Chicago Medicine

UW Health Carbone Cancer Center

Washington University School of Medicine

Advocacy Partners

Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation

Fanconi Anemia Research Fund

International Myeloma Foundation

International Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation

Leukemia Research Foundation

Lymphoma Research Foundation

NMDP

National Bone Marrow Transplant Link

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

The Meredith A. Cowden Foundation

Triage Cancer

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