State-of-the-Art Sessions

July 2, 2018 | 14:45–16:15

• Recurrent Liver Allograft Disease: How to Deal With  | TRACK: LIVER

  

  Marina Berenguer, Spain

  Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine La Fe University Hospital and Ciberehd, Valencia

  Recurrent Viral B and C Disease: Is the Graft Still Salvageble?

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  Zheng Shusen, People's Republic of China

  Chief Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Zhejiang University International Hospital, Hangzhou City

  Recurrent Hepatocellular Cancer: Is There a Place for Surgery?

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  Christopher Moreno, Belgium

  Professor, Clinical Director Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatopancreatology and Digestive Oncology CUB Hôpital Erasme

  Acute Versus Chronic Alcoholic Liver Disease: Real Incidence and How To Prevent Recurrency

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• Strategies for the Sensitized Patient  | TRACK: KIDNEY

  

  Robert A. Montgomery, United States

  Professor of Surgery Director, Transplant Institute NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

  IdeS: A New Approach to Desensitization

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  Olivier Aubert, France

  Paris Translational Center for Organ Transplantation

  Anti-IL-6R Ab for the Prevention and Treatment of AMR

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  Frans HJ Claas, The Netherlands

  Professor Immunogenetics of Transplantation, Dept. Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden

  The Role of the Acceptable Mismatch Strategy for Sensitized Patients

  
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• Inflammation and Stem Cell Transplantation  | TRACK: CELL

  

  Anil Dhawan, United Kingdom

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

  Stem Cell Therapy, Hepatocytes, a Source for Liver Regeneration

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  Maria Koulmanda, United States

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

  Pursing Tolerance by Blocking Inflammation in Islet Transplantation

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  Frantisek Saudek, Czech Republic

  Head, Department of Diabetes; Head, Pancreatic Islet Laboratory, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Czechia

  Advances in MR Cell Imaging

  
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• Paediatric Transplantation: Challenges and Potential Solutions  | TRACK: PAEDIATRIC

  

  Grainne M. Walsh, United Kingdom

  Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Paediatric Transplantation), Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London

  Ethics of Transplanting the Non-Adherant Teen

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  Carlos O. Esquivel, United States

  Professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

  Long Term Outcomes of Paediatric Transplantation

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  Olivia M. Martinez, United States

  Professor-Research, Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation, Stanford University

  Biomarkers for PTLD Diagnosis and Therapies

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• New Strategies to Increase Donation  | TRACK: DONATION

  

  Claus Niemann, United States

  Professor of Anesthesia & Surgery Department of Anesthesia, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  Donor Intervention Research - Priorities and Trends

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  Howard M. Nathan, United States

  President & CEO, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

  Effective Family Approach Practices

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  Kristina Krmpotic, Canada

  Intensivist, Pediatric Critical Care, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS

  End of Life Care Decision Making: Impact on Donation

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• The Future of of Intestinal Transplantation  | TRACK: INTESTINE

  

  Alexander Kroemer, United States

  Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Director Transplant Laboratory, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC

  The Microbiome and Its Implications in ITx

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  Martin Rumbo, Argentina

  Principal Investigator Mucosal Immunology Group Instituto de Estudios Inmunologicos y Fisiopatologicos IIFP - CONICET - UNLP

  Alloimmunity of the Intestinal Allotransplant

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  Martin W. von Websky, Germany

  Consultant Visceral Surgeon, Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Bonn

  Current Knowledge on Regulation and Impairment of Motility After Intestinal Transplantation

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• Cutting Edge of Allorecognition  | TRACK: HISTO

  

  Megan Sykes, United States

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

  Novel Immune Allorecognition Pathways

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  James McCluskey, Australia

  Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

  MHC:T-Cell Receptor Allorecognition Interface

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  Olivier Thaunat, France

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

  MHC:B-Cell Receptor Allorecognition Interface

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• Upholding the Ethics of Transplantation: The Global View  | TRACK: ETHICS

  

  Adibul Hasan Rizvi, Pakistan

  Professor and Director, Urology and Transplantation, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi

  Pakistan - The Challenges and Successes in Transplantation

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  Haibo Wang, People's Republic of China

  Director, China Organ Transplant Response System, Research Center of the Ministry of Health

  Achieving Organ Donor Reform in China

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  Seyyed Ali Malek-Hosseini, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

  Professor of Surgery, Head of Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz

  Establishing an Ethical Deceased Organ Donor Program in Iran

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• Recent Advances in VCA  | TRACK: VCA

  

  Benoît Lengelé, Belgium

  Head of department, plastic & reconstructive surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

  Vascularized Composite Allograft Engineering - The New Frontier

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  Angela Sirigu, France

  Research Director, Institute of Cognitve Science Marc Jeannerod, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

  Cortical Integration after VCA-Relevance in Hand and Face Transplants

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  Jérémy Bellien, France

  Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Rouen University Hospital

  Vascular Monitoring of Chronic Rejection in VCA - Lessons from Vascular Medicine

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• New Therapeutic Approaches to Transplantation  | TRACK: BASIC

  

  Menna Clatworthy, United Kingdom

  University Lecturer, Transplantation Medicine / Hon Consultant Nephrologist, University of Cambridge

  Mechanisms of Organ Injury and Repair by Macrophages

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  Qizhi Tang, United States

  Professor of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  Nudging Clinical Treg Responses

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  Nancy Kwan Man, Hong Kong

  Professor, Director, Clinical and Translational Research Laboratory; Director, Laboratory of Liver Transplantation and Liver Cancer, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong

  Systems Biology of the Intragraft Regional Immunoregulation in Tumor Recurrence After Liver Transplantation

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July 3, 2018 | 14:45–16:15

• Outcome Driven Liver Transplantation  | TRACK: LIVER

  

  Samuel A. Irefin, United States

  Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

  In Depth Cardiac Pre-LT Investigation: A necessity to improve outcome?

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  Toshimi Kaido, Japan

  Associate Professor, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto

  Sarcopenia and Denutrition: How to tackle these major determinants of outcome

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  Christian P. Strassburg, Germany

  Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn

  Pre-L-T Antiviral Treatment (HCV,HBV, and HIV): Improving outcomes with and /or without liver transplantation

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• Engineering Immune System for Transplantation  | TRACK: BASIC

  

  Jordi Ochando, Spain

  Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid

  Trained Immunity in Transplantation

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  Megan Levings, Canada

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

  Antigen Specific Tregs - What is Requird for Translation to the Clinic

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  Xian C. Li, United States

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

  Modulation of Macrophage Subsets to Promote Transplant Survival

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• Identifying the "At Risk" Renal Graft  | TRACK: KIDNEY

  

  Germaine Wong, Australia

  Transplant Nephrologist, Westmead Hospital, Westmead

  The Impact of Disease Recurrence on Graft Outcome

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  Alexandre Loupy, France

  Nephrologist, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Paris

  The Development of DSA - Who is at Risk and What is the Outcome

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  Brian J. Nankivell, Australia

  Transplant Physician, Department of Renal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead

  Histological Predictors of Premature Graft Loss

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• Beta-Cell Replacement Therapy: Current Outcomes and Future Landscape  | TRACK: PANCREAS

  

  Peter G. Stock, United States

  Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  Islet Transplantation Alone VS Solitary Pancreas Transplantation: An outcome driven choice?

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  Adam D. Barlow, United Kingdom

  Consultant Surgeon, Transplant and HPB Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds

  SPK Transplantation VS Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Alone: An outcome driven choice?

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  Lorenzo Piemonti, Italy

  Director, Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

  Future Landscape: Defining a successful outcome using stem cells as a source of insulin producing cells

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• Improving Transplant Outcomes: Assessing Transplant Candidates' Risk  | TRACK: NURSING

  

  Mara Ann McAdams DeMarco, United States

  Johns Hopkins University

  Assessing Transplant Candidates' Risk: Frailty

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  Miriam Kaufman, Canada

  Professor Emerita, Division of Adolescent Medicine, SickKids/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  Assessing Transplant Candidates' Risk: Nonadherence

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  Fabienne Dobbels, Belgium

  Academic Center for Nursing and Nutrition, KU Leuven

  Assessing Transplant Candidates' Risk: Poor Social Support and Health Literacy

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• Perioperative Management: The Missing Link  | TRACK: ANESTHESIA

  

  Catherine Paugam-Burtz, France

  Chair, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hopital Beaujon, Clichy

  Bridging the Failing Recipient Candidate in the ICU

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  Karl K. Young, Hong Kong

  Consultant, Department of Adult Intensive Care, Queen Mary Hospital

  Back from the Brink: Management of sepsis in the transplant recipient

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  James Findlay, United States

  Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

  Cardiac evaluation for abdominal organ transplant: angiography for all or overrated?

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• Improving Outcomes with Common Post-Transplant Infections  | TRACK: ID

  

  Camille Kotton, United States

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

  Prevention and Management of CMV: Current guidance

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  José María Aguado, Spain

  Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid

  Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterial Infections: Understanding epidemiology and management of challenging infections

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  Silvia Vidal Campos, Brazil

  Transplant Infectious Disease, Lung Transplant Group; Pulmonary Division; Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo

  Infectious Complications of Thoracic Transplantation: The challenge of ECMO, LVAD and thoracic transplantation

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• Delivering Co-stimulation Blockade to the Clinic  | TRACK: TX IMM

  

  Flavio Vincenti, United States

  Professor of Medicine, Transplant Device, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  The Role for Inhibition of the CD40-CD154 Pathway in Coxtimulation Blockade

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  Oriol Bestard Matamoros, Spain

  Head, Kidney Transplant Unit, Nephrology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

  New Uses of Belatacept in Kidney Transplantation

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  Lionel Rostaing, France

  Professor, Head, Department of Nephrology Hemodialysis Apheresis and Transplantation, CHU Grenoble-Alpes, La Tronche

  Selective Anti-CD28 Blockade: Finally Getting There?

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• A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Fight Against Organ Trafficking and Human Trafficking for Organ Removal  | TRACK: DICG

  

  Benita Padilla, Philippines

  Head, Human Organ Preservation Effort, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Quezon City

  The Role of Clinicians in Preventing and Combatting Organ Trafficking

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  Marta López-Fraga, France

  Scientific Officer, Department of Biological Standardisation, OMCL Network & HealthCare (DBO) European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM); Council of Europe

  The Role of Multinational Organisations

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  Gilad Erlich, Israel

  Prosecutor, State Attorney Office, Ministry of Justice

  The Role of Prosecutors

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• Why Does Sex Matter in Transplantation?  | TRACK: WIT

  

  Deborah Clegg, United States

  Professor, Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

  Sex on the Bench

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  Bethany Foster, Canada

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC

  Recipient Sex Related Factors Impacting Transplant Outcome

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  Christine Falk, Germany

  Director, Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School

  Considering Sex and Gender in Transplantation Research and Clinical Care

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July 4, 2018 | 14:30–16:00

• Metabolism in Transplantation  | TRACK: BASIC

  

  Jonathan Powell, United States

  Professor, Oncology and Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  Preventing Allograft Rejection by Targeting Immune Metabolism

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  Ping-Chih Ho, Switzerland

  Assistant Professor, Department of Fundamental Oncology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne

  Nutrient Regulation of Immune Responses

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  James A. Hutchinson, Germany

  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg

  Manipulating Macrophage Responses in Transplantation

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• Adult LDLT: Long Term Outcome Problems  | TRACK: LIVER

  

  Yu-Fan Cheng, Taiwan

  Professor, Radiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung City

  Long Term Outcome of Endovascular Venous Intragraft Stents in LDLT

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  Daniel Cherqui, France

  Professor of Surgery, Universite Paris-Sud; Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation, Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif-Paris, Paris

  Quality of life and lap donor hepatectomy

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  Kyung-Suk Suh, Korea

  Professor of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul

  Can the Minimal Invasive Surgery using Laparoscopic or Robotic Technique Replace Open Surgery in Living Donor Hepatectomy in near Future?

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• Can We Solve the Discrepancy Between Demand and Supply  | TRACK: KIDNEY

  

  Jay Fishman, United States

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

  Increased Risk and Hepatitis C Positive Organs Donors for HCV Positive and Negative Patients

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  Stefan G. Tullius, United States

  Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston

  The Challenges of Older Donors and Recipients

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  Ron Shapiro, United States

  Professor of Surgery/Surgical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  The Strengths and Weaknesses of KDRI

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• Clinical Xenotransplantation-How Close Are We?  | TRACK: XENO

  

  Alfred J. Tector III, United States

  Professor of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Kidney Transplantation

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  Wayne J. Hawthorne, Australia

  Laboratory Director, National Pancreas and Islet Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney

  Islet Transplantation

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  Muhammad Mohiuddin, United States

  Professor of Surgery, Director, Cariac Xenotransplantation Program, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Baltimore

  Heart Transplantation

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• The What, Who, When, Where and Why of Global Transplant Registries  | TRACK: REGISTRY

  

  Caner Süsal, Germany

  Prof. Dr. Med., Transplantation Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg

  The Collaborative Transplant Study

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  Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Spain

  Medical Officer, Medical Department, Organización Nacional de Trasplantes

  WHO Global Observatory Managed by Organizacion Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT)

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  Stephen P. McDonald, Australia

  Senior Staff Specialist, Renal Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide

  The Harmonisation of National Registries to Measure Global Outcomes

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• Best Use of Available Organs  | TRACK: DONATION

  

  Eduardo Miñambres, Spain, Spain

  Head of Transplant Coordination Unit & ICU Physician, University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Cantabria

  DCD Organs - What Does the Evidence Say About Outcomes?

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  Gabriel C. Oniscu, United Kingdom

  Consultant Transplant Surgeon / Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Transplant Unit, Roual Infirmary of Edinburgh / University of Edinburgh

  DCD Perfusion Techniques and Outcomes

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  Gregory Snell, Australia

  Medical Head, Lung Transplant Service, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

  DCD Lung Donation and Lung Reconditioning

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• ECMO in Thoracic Transplantation  | TRACK: H&L

  

  Christopher Wigfield, United States

  Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine

  ECMO for Heart and Lung Donors VS Ex Vivo Perfusion

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  Olivier Bastien, France

  Medical Director, Agence de la Biomedecine, Saint-Denis

  ECMO Intra- and Postop in Heart & Lung Transplantation

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  Simon Maltais, United States

  Surgeon, Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

  Managing ECMO Complications

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• Personalized Immunosuppression in 2018: “Which Biomarkers in Solid Organ Transplantation Will Pay Off?”  | TRACK: TX IMM

  

  Manikkam Suthanthiran, United States

  Professor and Chief, Transplantation Medicine, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

  Biomarkers for Acute Rejection in Clinic: Show time or no time?

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  Barbara Murphy, United States

  Chair, Department of Medicine Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

  Biomarkers for Chronic Allograft Dysfunction: What mark are we aiming for?

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  Josep M. Cruzado, Spain

  Head, Nephrology, Bellvitge Hospital, Barcelona

  CNI Minimization: How to foretell a good versus bad outcome?

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• Obesity and Bone Disease – 21^st Century Challenges for Transplantation  | TRACK: COMP

  

  Meltem Zeytinoglu, United States

  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Chicago

  Features of Postoperative Bbone Complications Specific to Transplanted Organs

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  Sara Jiménez, Spain

  Specialized Physician, Nephrology, Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid

  Mechanisms of Osteoporosis after Organ Transplantation and Treatment

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  Timucin Taner, United States

  Consultant, Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic

  Indication of Bariatric Surgery

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• Joint TTS-AST-ESOT: Advancing Transplant Therapeutics and Innovation

  

  

  

  OBJECTIVES: THIS SESSION WILL UPDATE ATTENDEES ON RECENT EFFORTS TO REVITALIZE AND REINVIGORATE CLINICAL TRIALS IN SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION. IN THIS SESSION, ATTENDEES WILL:
  
  1. LEARN ABOUT THE ROLE OF PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENT APPROVAL AGENCIES IN FORGING NEW PATHWAYS OF DRUG APPROVAL NOT PREVIOUSLY UTILIZED
  2. IDENTIFY AND LEARN ABOUT CLINICAL TRIAL ENDPOINTS DEVELOPED THROUGH CONSENSUS OF INVESTIGATORS AND PATIENTS
  3. LEARN ABOUT THE DESIGN OF FUTURE TRIALS THAT MAY INCORPORATE NEW ENDPOINTS SUCH AS PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES, BIOMARKERS, COMPOSITE END POINTS, AND SPECIFIC HIGH RISK GROUPS

  

  Roslyn B. Mannon, United States

  Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director of Transplant Research, University of Alabama Birmingham

  The Transplant Therapeutics Consortium: Update on Progress and Goals

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  Allison Tong, Australia

  Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney

  Solidifying Endpoints in Clinical Trials: SONG Tx Initiative

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  Stefan Schneeberger, Austria

  Head, Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery; Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University

  Challenges Involved in Developing New Endpoints for Clinical Trials

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