Minutes EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee Meeting
Date Tuesday 20th March 2018,
Venue:Room 1.11 from 13:00 - 14:00 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa / Lisbon Congress Centre (LCC)
Attendees
Ray Powles, Chairman , EBMT NAC
Bhawna Sirohi, Secretary, EBMT NAC
Robert Gale, USA
Fernando Leal da costa, Portugal
Akihiro Sam Shimosaka, Japan
Koichi Miyamura, Japan
Yoshi Kodera, Japan
David Ma,
Leif Stenke, Sweden
Dennis Confer, USA
Apologies
Nick Kroger, President , EBMT
Norbert Claude Gorin, France
Mohammad Mohty, France
Michel Drouet, France
Marc Benderitter, IRSN, France
Zhanat Carr, WHO
Cullen Case, NMDP
Monica Fliedner
Tony Pagliuca, UK
2/ Activities 2017-18
Lectures/Collaborations
2.1/ 15th International meeting WHO Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness Advisory Network REMPAN Geneva Switzerland. Invited Speaker. Place of Stem Cell transplants for victims massive radiation incidents 3rd July 2017
2.2/ 5th International Experts Course Stockholm Sweden. Medical Management Radiological/Nuclear Events. Invited speaker. ‘EBMT network for accident RR’ 5th Oct 2017
2.3/ 22nd International Asian Pacific Blood and Marrow (APBMT) Congress, Tehran Iran. Invited lectures on ‘ ‘Radiation Medical Preparedness for major Radiation Incidents’ 28th Oct 2017
2.4/ Korean Hydro and Nuclear Power KHNP Co. Soyon Kim Director General /Hi Gong
Sent:20 July 2017 09:19
Dear Prof. Ray Powles,
Iappreciate your prompt response and help to collaborate .
I heard about your help to enter EBNT from Ms. Gong.
I am very happy to have the network .
I hope you will support our activity in the future.
Sincerely Yours,
Soyon Kim M.D.
Director General of KHNP-RHI
The NAC Agreed to ask the EBMT Secretariat to produce a draft MOU between the EBMT and KHNP
3.0 Funding– The Chairman pointed out that the NAC is operationally a virtual group, only meeting formally once per year at the Annual EBMT meeting. Most of our activity is by invitation and is Cost-neutral. We have a budget of 8000 euros /year that is renewed on the understanding by the EBMT Board that we would use this if a major incident occurred at the discretion of the President and Chief executive for contingency travel etc.
We also hadEU proposal for the security call of the European Commission’s DG Home Affairs. The proposal is to design, develop and deploy a harmonized CBRN training curriculum for first responders and medical staff Attachment 2
4/0 Publications
Coordination of management of the acute radiation syndrome
Stenke L.1, 2*, Lindberg K.1,3, Lagergren Lindberg M.1, Lewensohn R.1, 3, Valentin J.1, Powles R.4, Dainiak N In Press Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2018 Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0–
5.0/ Pocket Guide.
EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee meeting .2017 Updating Pocket Guide’. Paris Oct 2017. We were very grateful for the working group who met in Paris in Nov 2018 who produced the new wording for the guide and Marc Benderitter of the IRSN for fascilitating its publication. The updated guide was launched at the meeting, and we took part in the EBMT TV News interview.
It is on the Website
We agreed that Michel Drouet of the Instiute Researche Biomedical des Armeeswill be acknowledged in the next print edition of the Pocket Guide
5.1/ Japanese Version EBMT NAC Pocket Guide.Prof Koichi Miyamura President Japanese BMT Society, presented a Japanese translation of the new Pocket Guide. The committee was appreciative of this initiative and it will be formally printed within one month and then go onto our website.
5/2/ Other countries for Pocket Guide. Fernando Leal da costa will translate into Portugese, and Sam Shimosaka has access to the HSCT society in Iran, Israel, India and Bangladesh. He has contacted Profs. Huang Xiao Jun and Huang He of China, Drs. Phu and Tuan of Vietnam,
And Yao Chan of Taiwan,
6.0/ New EBMT website
The committee were very grateful for the extremely good new website and the prominence of the NAC
7/0 Invitations 2018
5.1/ 6th Intl expert course on the medical management of RN events, in Stockholm on October 10-12 2018
Course organizers......
Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden in collaboration with the World Health Organisation Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network (WHO-REMPAN) and the European Blood and Marrow Transplantation group (EBMT). We are putting the flyer on our website
5.2/ IRBA Symposium Paris 6/7th Nov. We agreed that Michel Drouet of the Instiute Researche Biomedical des Armeeswill be acknowledged in the next print edition of the Pocket Guide
5.3/ Joint Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP) and UK Royal College Physicians meeting Colombo Sri Lanka September 2018 > Radiation Preparedness. The EBMT NAC is invited to give a lecture on Radiation Preparedness. This follows the plans for india to build a nuclear power station very near to Sri Lanker
8.0/ Twitter/Facebook
It was agreed that the NAC would approach the EBMT Secretariat to hitch onto the EBMT twitter account
9.0/ Any other Business
Attachment 2
Dear Ray et al.,
One additional request.
I am setting up a consortium to prepare a proposal for the security call of the European Commission’s DG Home Affairs. The proposal is to design, develop and deploy a harmonized CBRN training curriculum for first responders and medical staff. I am in desperate need of the latter. Nick Gent will help me but I need a continental partner for all official intents and purposes.
Any ideas?
Thanks and regards
Carlos
From: Ray Powles [mailto:
Sent: woensdag 20 december 2017 16:09
To: 'Andreu Gusi' <
Cc: 'Mohamad MOHTY' <>; ; Rojas Palma Carlos <
Subject: FW: invitation to join
Importance: High
Dear Andreu...... hope this is self explanatory and you can help.....this would definitely be worthwhile pursuing
Warm regards
Ray
Prof Ray Powles CBE MD BSc FRCP FRCPath
Head Haemato-oncology
Cancer Centre London
Parkside SW19 5NB
Chairman European Blood and Marrow EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee
+44(0)7768165882
From: Rojas Palma Carlos [mailto:
Sent: 20 December 2017 11:30
To: Ray Powles
Cc: 'Mohamad MOHTY';
Subject: RE: invitation to join
Importance: High
Dear Ray,
It does help provided the secretariat does file the request for the PIC number if you don’t have one
Happy Xmas and a successful 2018
Carlos
From: Ray Powles [mailto:
Sent: woensdag 20 december 2017 12:25
To: Rojas Palma Carlos <
Cc: 'Mohamad MOHTY' <>;
Subject: RE: invitation to join
Dear Carlos,
The EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee is part of the EBMT, the secretariat of which is based in Barcelona, and if a major radiation incident occurred response and all other activity would be driven through the Secretariat...... I’m merely the Chairman
Does this help?
Ray
Prof Ray Powles CBE MD BSc FRCP FRCPath
Head Haemato-oncology
Cancer Centre London
Parkside SW19 5NB
Chairman European Blood and Marrow EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee
+44(0)7768165882
From: Rojas Palma Carlos [mailto:
Sent: 20 December 2017 07:19
To: Ray Powles
Cc: 'Mohamad MOHTY';
Subject: RE: invitation to join
Importance: High
Dear Ray et al.,
Thank you very much for the swift and positive reply.
Before we continue with the planning, there is an issue that we have to clear: partnership with the UK is not allowed by the European Commission and therefore, although you may actively be involved in the project, the representation of the EBMT association will have to be from elsewhere. I do hope we can be creative on this. Secondly, the institution representing your organization has to be registered in the EC database or have participated in previous EC funded activities, i.e., be in possession of a partner identification code (PIC) number. If you guys don’t have it, a legal authorized representative has to access the ECAS system of the EC and proceed with the registration. Instructions on how to do this are attached
Regards
Carlos
Carlos ROJAS PALMA, Ph.D.
Senior Project Manager of Security Research and CT
Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK•CEN)
From: Ray Powles [mailto:
Sent: dinsdag 19 december 2017 17:07
To: Rojas Palma Carlos <
Cc: 'Mohamad MOHTY' <>;
Subject: FW: invitation to join
Dear Carlos,
Thank you so much for the invitation...... Im delighted to help
Warm regards and a happy Christmas
Ray
Prof Ray Powles CBE MD BSc FRCP FRCPath
Head Haemato-oncology
Cancer Centre London
Parkside SW19 5NB
Chairman European Blood and Marrow EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee
+44(0)7768165882
From: Mohamad MOHTY [mailto:
Sent: 19 December 2017 10:24
To: Ray Powles
Subject: Fwd: invitation to join
Hi Ray
This is for you
Kind regards
Mohamad
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Expéditeur: Rojas Palma Carlos <
Date: 19 décembre 2017 à 11:07:52 UTC+1
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Objet:invitation to join
Dear Prof Mohty,
I coordinated the European Commission funded project that delivered the handbook for the management of mass casualties after a malevolent act involving ionizing radiation “TMT Handbook” (
Due to the success of the first edition the European Commission encouraged me to present a proposal for the open call of DG Home affairs ( ). The call emphasizes on the need of training and therefore we could use it to get the funding we need to produce an updated version provided we include train the trainers activities.
At the moment I am seeking specialized MDs to update the radiological triage and medical treatment parts of the book and Dr Gent here in copy suggested to me that could include the EBMT society as a partner in the project.
Would you consider this? I would appreciate a prompt reply as the deadline to submit proposals is February 1st.
Kind regards
Carlos ROJAS PALMA, Ph.D.
Senior Project Manager Security Research and CT
Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK•CEN)
- Med A form – to be added to the website – BS to email
- Pocket guide – to be translated in various languages- BS to email word document to SS to translate into Mandarin, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, to FLC for translation to Portuguese and Spanish and LS for Nordic languages.
- Paper – Stenke et al, to be added to website once LS reverts back about copyright issues
- LS to send the flier for the course in Oct 2018 to BS to be sent to all NAC committee members to encourage attending (CNS, doctors) . No course fees but attendees have to fund travel and accommodation.
- Add Michel Drouet / group to the next version of pocket guide
- Consider scientific session at the next EBMT. RP to email the EBMT president . the session at the ASH and Tandem meeting was very well attended.
- Consider twitter / facebook for NAC activities. Likely twitter –RP/BS