7:00 - 8:15 am - Ticketed Events

Sunday, May 1

1. Assessment of Coagulation in End Stage Liver Disease: Pitfalls and Solutions
Moderators: Robert Porte, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Canada and Steven Caldwell, MD, University of Virginia, Salt Lake City, VA

2. Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (DCDD) in Children: The Ethics, The Process and the Outcomes
Moderators: Thomas Nakagawa, MD and Susan Bratton, MD, University of Utah, Stanford, UT

3. Grant Writing Workshop for Basic Science and Clinical Fellows
Moderators: TBD and Marisa Alegre, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

4. KDIGO Practice Guidelines in Transplant: How and When Should We Use Them, When Should We Not?
Moderators: Bertram Kasiske, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN and John Gill, MD, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

5. Surrogate Endpoints in Transplantation
Moderators: Jesse Schold, PhD, M. Stat, M. Ed, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH and Greg Knoll, MD, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada

6. The Transplanted Woman: Issues to Consider
Moderators: Vincent Armenti, MD, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA and Veronica Gomez-Lobo, MD, Georgetown University, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

7. The Current Status of Islet Transplantation
Moderators: Bernhard Hering, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and  Ali Naji, MD, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

8. What Do Animal Models Tell Us About Chronic Rejection?
Moderators: D. Keith Bishop and William Baldwin, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH

Monday, May 2

9. Diving Into the Deep End of the Liver Donor Pool
Moderators: John Renz, MD, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Eric Schadde, MD, St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, MO

10. Interpretation of Donor Specific Antibody Testing and Crossmatch Techniques SOLD OUT
Moderators: Peter Nickerson, MD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada and M. Sue Leffell, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

11. Manuscript Writing Workshop
Moderators: Andrew Wells and Jonathon Maltzman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

12. New Onset Diabetes after Transplantation
Moderators: Harini Chakkera, MD, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ and Phuong-Thu Pham, MD, UCLA Medical Center, Charlottesville, CA

13. The Older Transplant Recipient
Moderators: TBD and Patricia Adams, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

14. Transplant Infectious Diseases: Future Directions
Moderators: Atul Humar, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and TBD

15. What is the Impact of IL-17 on Transplant Outcomes?
Moderators: William Burlingham, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Nader Najafian, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

20. Role of ECMO in Thoracic Transplantation
Moderators: Duane Davis, MD, Duke Medicine, Durham, NC and David Mason
 

Tuesday, May 3

16. Grant Writing Workshop for Principal Investigators
Moderators: TBD and Robert Fairchild

17. High Risk Living Donor SOLD OUT
Moderators: Stephen Textor, MD, Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, MN and Eric Gibney

18. Immune Privilege in Transplantation
Moderators: William Burlingham, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and TBD

19. Molecular Reading of Transplant Biopsies
Moderators: Banu Sis, MD, FRCPC, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and Anthony Demetris, MD, UPMC—Montefiore, Pittsburgh, PA

21. The Virtual Crossmatch: Understanding its Role in Wait List Management SOLD OUT

Moderators: Howard Gebel, PhD, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA and Kathryn Tinckam, MD, MMSc, FRCPC, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

22. What Are the Barriers to Optimal Utilization and Outcomes for Kidney Transplantation from Small/Young Pediatric Donors?
Moderators: Jeffrey Orlowski and Liise Kayler

Wednesday, May 4

23. Challenges in Organ Donor Management
Moderators: Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA and Michael Goldstein

24. Evolving Role of NK Cells in Solid Organ Transplantation
Moderators: Joren Madsen and Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

25. Molecular Expression Profiling to Assess Rejection Risk in Heart Transplantation
Moderators: Michael Pham, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL and Abdullah Kfoury, MD, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT

26. Risks and Solutions in Transplantation and Policy Implications
Moderators: Daniela Ladner, MD, MPH and Donna Woods, PhD, Northwestern University, Aurora, CO

27. The Current Status of Liver Assist Devices
Moderators: Scott Nyberg, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and Jeffrey Fair

28. Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: Development of Donation Best Practices and Establishment of a VCA Program
Moderators: Jeffrey Orlowski, MS, Center for Donation and Transplant, Albany, NY and Linda Cendales, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

30. Auto Islet Transplantation
Moderators: Kenneth Brayman, MD, PhD, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA and David Sutherland