1. Sri Lankan BMT project John Moore Haematology Department St. Vincents Hospital

2. Why BMT for Sri Lanka? Currently, patients with haematological malignancies need to travel to Singapore and India for stem cell transplants. Highly motivated and educated medical community. – NCI – NBTS Committed government authorities – doubling of per capita health expenditure 2011-16 (Australia-Sri Lanka aid program strategy 2012-16). Infrastructure currently being constructed Health expenditure as GDP/capita is appropriate for BMT BMT can be cost effective for thalassemia/CML.

3. Sri Lanka visit April 2014 Visit for 4 days with David Ma One day at National Cancer Institute Maharagama Attended the Annual Sessions of the Sri Lankan College of Transfusion Physicians Inspected the National Centre for Blood transfusion Long term plan is for 16 SL staff to come to SVH for training over a 1-4month period in 2015. Funding applications submitted to Commonwealth Endeavour Education Fellowship and Australia Award Fellowship. Attendance at WBMT meeting in South Africa November 2014. Ist autologous BMT in late 2015 (with supervision) Development of allografting/BMDU in 2016.

4. Staff list Feb-June 2015 mentorship Medical 4 consultants - 1 Oncologist - 1 Haematologist - 1 Microbiologist - 1 Transfusion Medicine 2 Oncology Fellows 1 Microbiology Fellow 1 Transfusion Medicine Fellow Nursing/Allied Health 5 nursing staff - 2 Oncology - 2 Transfusion medicine (apheresis) - 1 Infection control 2 Scientists 1 Pharmacist

5. NCI/NBTS visit April 2014 Footnote to go here

6. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

7. Conclusions/Thanks Time is right for BMT in Sri Lanka Website development is another step in the process. Grateful for the support of: – High Commissioner Thisara Samarasinghe – Chrysanthi and Jude Fernando – Australian Public Services Commission’s Social Club – St. Vincents Hospital – Dr Kanishka Karunaratne - NCI – Dr Lakmali Morawaka - NBTS