Meeting program
Thursday, April 24
Various satellite symposia will take place the day before the meeting for national and regional participants.
Friday, April 25 - EHA-Balkan Hematology Day 2025
09:15 - 10:30 CEST Opening remarks & special lecture
- Welcome of participants
Irina Panovska-Stavridis (North Macedonia) - Welcome note and introduction of meeting program
Dimitar Efremov (Italy) - History of EHA Balkan Day
Gianluca Gaidano (Italy) - History of Balkan Hematology Societies
Oliver Karanfilski (North Macedonia) - Recent regional developments in the treatment of lymphoma
Irina Panovska-Stavridis (North Macedonia) - CART program
Speaker to be announced
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15 Session 1: Mantle-cell lymphoma (Indolent and non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
- State-of-the-Art lecture
Georg Hess (Germany) - How to manage Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia in 2025
Evdoxia Hatjiharissi (Greece) - Title to be announced
Murat Özbalak (Türkiye) - Case report: Ibrutinib on North Macedonian experience
Nevenka Ridova (North Macedonia) - Indolent mantle cell lymphoma
Speaker to be announced - Panel discussion
All speakers
12:15 - 13:15 Satellite symposium
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 - 15:45 Session 2: Hodgkin lymphoma
- State-of-the-Art lecture
Sirpa Lëppa (Finland) - HIV - Associated Hodgkin's lymphoma Prognosis and Therapy
Miranda Hoti (Kosovo) - Title to be announced
Hristina Ivanova (Bulgaria) - Title to be announced
Ecem Yön (Türkiye) - Hodgkin lymphoma
Darko Antic (Serbia) - Panel discussion
All speakers
15:45 - 17:15 Session 3: Large B cell lymphomas
- State-of-the-Art lecture
Maria Gomes da Silva (Portugal) - Title to be announced
Ivan Negara (Moldova/Italy) - Inflammation and inflammatory prognostic indices in Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas
Zorica Cvetković (Serbia) - Prognostic significance of CD 47 expression in patients with newly diagnosed Large B cell lymphoma
Ilija Bukurecki (Serbia) - What treatment for DLBCL in 2025?
Arben Ivanaj (Albania) - Panel discussion
All speakers
17:15 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00 Session 4: Marginal Zone Lymphoma
- State-of-the-Art lecture
Speaker to be announced - Title to be announced
Zdravko Mitrović (Croatia) - Title to be announced
Selin Küçükyurt Kaya (Türkiye) - Case report 1
Speaker to be announced - Case report 2
Speaker to be announced - Panel discussion
All speakers
19:00 Closing remarks
Saturday, April 26 - National Congress of the Macedonian Hematology Association
Program to be published shortly.
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