Day 1 | June 30, 2018

• 08:30–10:30

  Joint Session 1: Academic Survival Kit

  

  Session Co-Chairs

  Roadmap to the Post Graduate Course

  

  Medhat Askar, United States

  Director, Transplant Immunology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas

  Transplant Educator

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  Jeremy R. Chapman, Australia

  Clinical Director, Division of Medicine and Cancer, Westmead Hospital, Sydney

  Preparing an Abstract and a Manuscript

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  Roslyn B. Mannon, United States

  Professor of Medicine, Nephrology; Professor of Surgery, Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); Director of Research, Comprehensive Transplant Institute

  How To Write a Grant

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  Marcelo Cantarovich, Canada

  Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, MOTP, McGill University Health Center, Montréal

  How to Prepare and Present Slides

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• 11:15–13:15

  Clinical Science Session 1: The Transplant Fitting Room

  

  Shaifali Sandal, Canada

  Division of Nephrology, McGill University Health Center, Montréal, QC

  Pre-transplant Work-up

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  Peter Nickerson, Canada

  Vice Dean of Research, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Professor of Internal Medicine and Immunology, Flynn Family Chair in Renal Transplantation; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

  Histocompatibility Testing (Pre & Post)

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  Robert A. Mongomery, United States

  Professor of Surgery, Director, Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health

  Management of the Highly Sensitized Patient

  
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  Dominique Martin, Australia

  Senior Lecturer, Health Ethics and Professionalism, Deakin University School of Medicine, Geelong, Victoria

  Ethical Dilemmas in Solid Organ Transplantation

  
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• Basic Science Session 1: Innate Immune Response & Microbiome

  

  Maria Koulmanda, United States

  Co-Scientific Director, Transplant Institute Medicine and Surgery, Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston

  Inflammatory Triggers and Receptors - DAMPs and PAMPs

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  Carmen Peralta, Spain

  Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)

  Inflammasome-mediated Inflammation

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  Avery J. Lam, Canada

  PhD Candidate, Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia

  Alarmins and Their Receptors in Control of the Allo-immune Response

  
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  Jonathan S. Bromberg, United States

  Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine

  Microbiome Analysis

  
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• 14:15–16:15

  Clinical Science Session 2: Dealing with the Aftermath

  

  Jay Fishman, United States

  Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease and Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

  Donor Derived Infections

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  Camille Kotton, United States

  Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

  Transplant Infectious Diseases

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  Germaine Wong, Australia

  Transplant Nephrologist, Westmead Hospital, Westmead

  Transplant Malignancies

  
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  Gregory Alan Knoll, Canada

  Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology; Medical Director of Renal Transplantation, The Ottawa Hopsital

  Cardiovascular and Metabolic Complications

  
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• Basic Science Session 2: T Cells

  

  Gavin Pettigrew, United Kingdom

  Reader, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge

  Allorecognition by the Adaptive Immune System: Direct, Indirect, and Semidirect

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  Bernard Vanhove, France

  Chief Operating Officer, OSE Immunotherapeutics, Nantes

  CD4 Effector T Cells: Activation, Costimulation, Th Repertoire (including TFH cells), and (Finally) Exhaustion!

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  Sarah Crome, Canada

  University Health Network

  Tissue-resident Immune Cells

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  Megan Sykes, United States

  Director, Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

  Utilizing TCR & BCR-Seq to Study Antigen-specific Immune Responses

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• 16:45–18:45

  Clinical Science Session 3: Precision Thinking

  

  Valeria Mas, United States

  Associate Professor, Surgery, University of Virginia

  Systems Biology

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  Minnie Sarwal, United States

  Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

  Biomarkers of Graft Function & Failure

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  Christophe Legendre, France

  Head of Nephrology-Transplantation Unit, Adult nephrology-Transplantation Unit, Hôpital Necker & Paris Descartes University

  Immunosuppression

  
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  Teun van Gelder, The Netherlands

  Professor in Clinical Pharmacology, Depts Internal Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

  Pharmacogenomics & Precision Medicine

  
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• Basic Science Session 3: B Cells and Innate Immune System

  

  Olivier Thaunat, France

  Professor of Transplantation, Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon

  Update on B Cell Activation, Memory and Antibody Secreting Cells

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  Gavin Pettigrew, United Kingdom

  Reader, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge

  Targeting B Cells and Ab-Producing Cells

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  Jordi Ochando, Spain

  Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid

  Adaptive Function of NK Cells & Macrophages

  
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  Estela Paz-Artal,Spain

  Head of Service, Immunology Hospital 12 de Octubre

  Innate Lymphoid Cells

  
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Day 2 | July 1, 2018

• 09:00–10:30

  Clinical Science Session 4: Becoming Precise

  

  Michael Mengel, Canada

  Department Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

  Transplant Pathology

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  Sean Agbor-Enoh, United States

  Associate Staff Clinician, Laboratory of Transplantation Genomics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

  Liquid Biopsy

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  Philip F. Halloran, Canada

  Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre

  Molecular Microscope

  
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• Basic Science Session 4: Immune Regulation & Flow Standardisation

  

  Megan Levings, Canada

  Professor of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  Regulatory T and B Cells

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  Xian C. Li, United States

  Professor and Director of Surgery, Houston Methodist/Weill Cornell, Houston, TX

  Tolerogenic Function of Innate Immune Cells

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  Birgit Sawitzki, Germany

  Professor, Institute of Medical Immunology, Charite University Medicine, Berlin

  Strategies to Standardize and Objectify Assays e.g. Flow Cytometry Automated Gating

  
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• 11:00–12:30

  Clinical Science Session 5: Clinical Crowdsourcing

  

  Ulrik Stervbo, Germany

  Post Doc, Center for Translational Medicine, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr University Bochum

  TCR NGS Based Evidence for Differential Diagnosis and Personalized Therapy in BKV Nephropathy

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  Marina Pérez-Flecha González, Spain

  Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

  Day to Day Decision in Multi-Visceral Transplantation Immunosuppression

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  Bryan Christian Gaza Ilagan, Philippines

  Medical Officer - Adult Nephrology Fellow, Department of Adult Nephrology, National Kidney and Transplant Institute

  The Great Pretender: When What You See, Is Not What You Get. An Unusual Presentation of Lung Cancer on a Post Kidney Transplant Patient

  
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• Basic Science Session 5: The Future of Organ Transplant Replacement

  

  Daniel G. Maluf, United States

  Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation, University of Virginia School of Medicine

  Genomics & Epigenomics in Transplantation

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  Anil Dhawan, United Kingdom

  Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, Child Healtj, King's College Hospital, London

  Cellular Therapy for Liver Disease and Liver Regeneration

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  Marc Guell, United States

  eGenesis Biosciences

  Gene-specific Nucleases (CrispCas, TALEN ...)

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• 13:30–15:30

  Joint Session 2: Future Look at Organ Shortage

  

  Giorgio Raimondi, United States

  Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore

  Tolerance

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  Alfred J. Tector III, United States

  Professor of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Xenotransplantation

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  Giuseppe Orlando, United States

  Assistant Professor, Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine

  Bioengineering and Regeneration of Solid Organs: Current Status and Future Directions

  
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  Nina Babel, Germany

  Head, University Professor, Center for Translational Medicine, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr University Bochum

  Advanced Biomarkers of Graft Function & Failure

  
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• 16:00–17:30

  Joint Session 3: Transplant Mathaton

  

  Joseph Kim, Canada

  Transplant Nephorlogist, Department of Medicine (Division of Nephrology), University Health Network, Toronto

  How to Understand and Use Statistics

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  Dorry Segev, United States

  Associate Vice Chair for Research, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  Big Data in Transplantation

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  Marcelo Cantarovich, Canada

  Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, MOTP, McGill University Health Cente, Montréal

  Take Home Message (Clinical Science Path)

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  Birgit Sawitzki, Germany

  Professor, Institute of Medical Immunology, Charite University Medicine, Berlin

  Take Home Message (Basic Science Path)

  
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