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Message from the President of the Congress
The Brazilian Society of Bone Marrow Transplant has prepared the XX SBTMO Congress 2016 which takes place from
24 to 27 of August 2016 in Hotel Gran Marquise in Fortaleza, Ceará.
The event will be marked by the educational sharing of experiences, with the strong participation of leading experts
from the country and abroad.
The Land of the Sun will be ready to receive the participants of the Congress with all the infrastructure of a large
capital, and the warm, typical openness of the people from Ceará.
Welcome to Fortaleza!
Dr. Fernando Barroso Duarte
President of the XX Congress of the Brazilian Society of Bone Marrow Transplant
Message from the President of SBTMO
After more than 30 years of activity, the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) program has now 45 hospitals
accredited to operate in the area, with different levels of complexity, more than 15 accredited services for performing
HSCT with alternative donors. There are more than 60 teams working in the country, performing over 2000 procedures
per year, 800 allogeneic, of these 300 with unrelated donors, with progressively better results, currently compatible with
those found in international records.
Difficulties and limitations have always existed; perhaps now, increased by the financial crisis that we face they are
more present, increased costs of inputs, unavailability of existing resources to reform or expansion of beds in productive
units. Even the publication of an ordinance, already updated, is delayed.
In this context, it is noteworthy the commitment and determination of the different teams involved in development
of HSCT in Brazil, always interested in producing more and better. We are very encouraged with the increase of newly
accredited centers that are already in operation, as well as the larger number of residents belonging to medical residency
programs accredited by the CNRM, now available in several HSCT centers.
The Brazilian Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation, SBTMO, has stimulated the integration and cooperation
between the several active units in the country, as well as participation in educational programs with the ABHH, and has
been developing productive relationships with LABMT, WBMT, CIBMTR and EMBT.
The SBTMO Congress will take place this year, in August, in Fortaleza, chaired by Dr. Fernando Barroso, who has
spared no effort to reach the desired success, and last but not least, with its established economic viability. Personally,
considering the already available programming, in addition to the presence of international and national prominent speak-
ers, I believe the Fortaleza event will score a favorable position in the successful history of the SBTMO Congresses, as
many others before.
Next year, in the XXI Congress of SBTMO in Campinas, which will be chaired by Dr Nelson Hamerschlak, we will
have the accomplishment of the HSCT Consensus, which unlike other years, was strategically placed next to the Congress.
This year, within the continuing education program of SBTMO, we started the regional meetings, which should have
their frequency expanded next year, contributing to a greater integration and cooperation between the different services.
In the face of the current difficulties, we propose to maintain the development of the HSCT Brazilian Program, always
stimulated by our fraternal cooperation.
I wish you all a great XX SBTMO Congress in Fortaleza.
Vergilio Colturato
President of SBTMO