PBM Awareness Week
PBM Awareness Week® · Award Winners Webinar
Bleeding, Cytopenias & Coagulopathy: Improving Care with Patient Blood Management & Transfusion Modalities
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:00–1:00 p.m. Eastern
Rethink transfusion. Transform patient care.
Join SABM for an engaging webinar with Dr. Neil Blumberg, co-recipient of SABM’s Kathleen J. Sazama Award, as he challenges conventional approaches to managing bleeding, cytopenias, and coagulopathy.
Discover how Patient Blood Management and evolving transfusion modalities can inform clinical decision-making, optimize blood health, and improve outcomes for patients facing complex hematologic challenges.
Presented by SABM’s 2026
Kathleen J. Sazama Award Winners
Neil Blumberg, MD
Presenter · Award co-recipient
Joanna Heal, MBBS, MRCP
Presenter · Award co-recipient
Presented by SABM’s 2026 Kathleen J. Sazama Award Winners.
PBM Awareness Week® · Global Collaboration
PBM Awareness Week®:
SABM–WFSA Joint Webinar
Patient Blood Management Awareness: The Anesthesiologist’s Role in Transforming Care
What does it take to transform how we care for patients before, during, and after a procedure?
Join the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) for a special collaborative webinar celebrating Patient Blood Management Awareness Week.
Featuring anesthesiologists sharing clinical insights and perspectives from across the field, this session will explore how Patient Blood Management can optimize blood health, inform clinical decisions, and improve patient outcomes.
Discover how evidence-based practice, multidisciplinary collaboration, and global knowledge-sharing can help advance better blood care for patients worldwide.
LIVE WEBINAR · NOVEMBER 2026
Thursday, November 5, 2026
10:00 ET
15:00 GMT / 19:00 GST / 16:00 CET
SABM Patient Blood Management Awareness Week®
November 2-6, 2026
Founded in 2001, SABM is an educational organization comprised of a network of medical practitioners from a wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines who are dedicated to improving health outcomes, increasing safety, and reducing healthcare costs through the advancement of scientific knowledge and practice in Patient Blood Management. SABM advances best practice to thousands of healthcare providers through CME programs and the creation of learning tools and development of evidence based clinical pathways.
From November 2-6, 2026, the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) will celebrate the 18th Annual SABM Patient Blood Management Awareness Week®. SABM invites healthcare organizations worldwide to participate in this week dedicated to educating patients and healthcare professionals about patient blood management and transfusion overuse.
2026 SABM PBM Awareness Week® Poster
Please share and print this PBM Awareness Week Poster. When printing, SABM recommends printing as a poster in Adobe.
SABM will have activities throughout Patient Blood Management Awareness Week® including webinars, educational content and more.
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SABM Patient Blood Management Awareness Week® is dedicated each year to education patients and healthcare professions around the world about Patient Blood Management. Resources to promote the Awareness Week are available below.
Please share pictures of your activities on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter with the hashtags below:
#PBMAW2026
#SABMPBMAWARENESSWEEK
2025 SABM PBM Awareness Week® Webinars
Global Voices in Patient Blood Management: Innovation, Strategy, Impact
November 4, 2025
Featuring:
Dr. Fredy Ariza Cadena, Dr. Tae Yop Kim, Dr. Matthew Warner, Dr. Linda Shore Lesserson
Pediatric Patient Blood Management: Let’s Dive into PMB!
November 5, 2025
Featuring:
Stacey Valentine, MD
Resources You Can Use
SABM has created some great publications and presentations you can use. Please visit the SABM Publications page HERE.
