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The CIBMTR Working Committee session will debut a new, highly interactive format at the 2026 Tandem Meetings | Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT® and CIBMTR®.
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., attendees of (CIBMTR WC) Inside CIBMTR: Meet the Teams Powering Progress will have the opportunity to rotate through a series of stations hosted by representatives from key CIBMTR departments. These individual and small-group encounters are designed to provide general overviews on how to utilize CIBMTR data, spark new professional opportunities and facilitate one-on-one conversations about leveraging CIBMTR resources.
“There will be representatives from statistical operations hosting a table and discussing data availability and how it is pulled from the CIBMTR database. There will be scientific directors talking about how to become involved in working committees or the CIBMTR Page Scholar Program,” said Session Co-Chair Rachel Phelan, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and CIBMTR’s scientific director for the Morbidity, Recovery and Survivorship Working Committee.
This format enables the working groups to speak directly to a wide audience, added Co-Chair Rachel Cusatis, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and CIBMTR’s senior scientific director of patient-centered research and survivorship.
“For those who have never submitted a proposal before, this session allows them to receive information about where to find resources and how to begin the process,” Dr. Cusatis explained. “For those who have submitted proposals multiple times, the individual meetings allow for specific questions about a specific resource. We can tailor our conversations based on who’s there and what questions they are asking.”
Dr. Cusatis will facilitate conversations at the patient-reported outcomes table. Dr. Phelan will be present at the table for scientific directors. Other stations include: data operations, machine learning and samples, Page Scholars/Next Gen, publicly available datasets (PADs) and stats ops.
Dr. Phelan encourages Tandem Meetings attendees from all fields to attend and explore available resources. She pointed to one recent study proposal with a dentist as the principal investigator and noted that this type of cross-collaborative research can be particularly successful.
“These are not conversations tailored only for physicians with extensive research experience,” Dr. Phelan said. “We welcome people from different fields and from different professional tracks who can use the data in meaningful ways.”
Dr. Phelan noted that encounters with fellow session attendees at this event can be as productive as conversations with the station hosts.
“It’s an opportunity to meet not only the CIBMTR leadership, but one another,” she said. “You may find other individuals around the table who share your exact professional interests and discover this session can also serve as a networking opportunity for future work.”
Dr. Cusatis said organizers want attendees to treat this session as a kickoff to their 2026 Tandem Meetings experience.
“It is a way to get excited, to start talking, start asking questions and foster ideas about what other sessions to attend and where to head next,” she said.
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If you aren’t able to make it to a live session during the 2026 Tandem Meetings — or you want to revisit a session — you can watch on-demand recordings within hours of the live presentations via digital access.
