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Agenda For The Annual General Meeting at 7th Annual Conference of ISTM

Dear Friends , Greetings from the Office of Secretary ISTM !

The 7th National Conference of Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine will be held from 23rd to 25th November, 2018 at Kochi, Kerala. It is with immense pleasure that we invite you all to TRANSMEDCON 2018. I , on behalf of President of the society Dr R. N. Makroo and my personal behalf look forward to meet all the members and create a way forward for the society. The Annual General meeting (AGM) will be held during the conference on November 24th, 2018 at the conference venue from 5.30 p.m. onwards.

The agenda of the meeting is as follows:

1. Audited statement of accounts.

2. Institution of award in memory of Prof V.L.Ray

3. The post of editor and starting a Journal of ISTM.

4. Update of Membership.

5. Taking up issues of Transfusion Medicine to the National Medical Commission

6. Special Interest Groups of ISTM

7. Elections for the next ISTM Executive Committee

8. Announcement of the venue of TRANSMEDCON 2019.

9. Any other Agenda with the permission of the Chair.

Dr Manisha Shrivastava,Secretary (ISTM)

“Ray Of Light”

DR. VIJAY LAXMI

The news that Professor Vijay Laxmi Ray has left for heavenly abode has left the fraternity of Transfusion Medicine not only sad but with a void which is almost impossible to fill. For decades she served the Indian Transfusion Medicine field as a dynamic thinker, worker and a dreamer. I was amongst those fortunate who got an opportunity to work in close vicinity as a student of Madam when she joined the Department of Transfusion Medicine at Lucknow as Professor and Head of the Department in 1998 when I was pursuing my Post graduation. Hers was a life well lived and all those who were ever associated with her will remember her as creator, a care taker, a great teacher and a leader who had a heart so malleable yet authoritative and convincing. Read more