Come to the new educational session designed specifically for local medical students and residents: The Science, The Art, and The Allure of Transplantation! This exciting new session will begin with nine short talks by internationally renowned experts in each transplant specialty (surgery, nephrology, hepatology, ID, thoracic, pediatrics, laboratory research, and clinical research), with each expert highlighting the fundamental concepts of transplantation as it relates to their specialty. This will be followed by "Why I Love It:" a fascinating panel of transplant physicians at different stages of their careers (trainees, junior faculty, and senior faculty) discussing the reasons they went into, and stay in, transplantation.

3am helicopter rides. Innovations in immunology. The sickest patients in the hospital. Mathematical modeling of national policy decisions. Come participate in the exciting, first-ever session designed specifically for medical students and residents: The Science, The Art, and The Allure of Transplantation!

Calling all medical students and residents! We have a brand new, exciting session designed specifically for you: The Science, The Art, and The Allure of Transplantation! Superstars in each of 9 transplant specialties, at various stages of their careers, will teach you fundamental concepts of transplantation, share dynamic stories from the trenches, and inspire you with the fascinating reasons that they went into, and stay in, transplantation.

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The student rate is not intended for poster or oral abstract presenters.  Verification Required Onsite. Residents must provide a letter from their program director; students should contact their department chairs. This session is intended for local medical students and residents.

$25 Student Rate includes:
Special Student Program “The Science, The Art, and The Allure of Transplantation: An educational session designed for medical students and residents”, Sunday May 1, 2010, 2:15 - 5:00 pm
Sunday, May 1st Only Access to Posters, Exhibition Hall, Sunrise, Midday, Concurrent and Plenary Sessions

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The Science, the Art and the Allure of Transplantation: An Educational Session Designed for Medical Students and Residents

Moderator: Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Fundamental Concepts of Transplantation

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Immunosuppression: How It Works and Why We Need It
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Transplant Surgery: It All Started in 1954
Richard Freeman, MD
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH

2:45 pm – 3:00 PM

Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation: Better than Dialysis
John Gill, MD, MS
St. Paul’s Hospital
Vancouver, Canada

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Hepatology and Liver Transplantation: The Ultimate Treatment
Kimberly Olthoff, MD
University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

ID: It Only Gets Interesting When You Suppress the Immune System
Jay Fishman, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Heart/Lung: It Doesn’t Get Much More Invasive Than This
TBD

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Pediatrics: Pediatric Transplants Are Not Just Little Organs
TBD

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Laboratory Research: B Cells, T Cells, Omics, Gene Therapy, You Name It
Allan Kirk, MD, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

4:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Clinical Research: What Other Field Has a National Registry of 200,000 Patients?
Krista Lentine, MD
St. Louis, MO

Panel: Why I Love It

4:45 pm – 4:54 pm

Jayme Locke , MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, MD

4:54 pm – 5:03 pm

Peter Reese

5:03 pm – 5:12 pm

Michael Englesbe

5:12 pm – 5:21 pm

Alan Leichtman

5:21 pm – 5:30 pm

Sandy Feng