Conference Set
080: Pre-Meeting Symposium #1: Updates on Clinical and Technology Advances for the Transplant Scientist
Generating B Cell Responses and their Influence on Immune Responses
Moderators: Olivia Martinez, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA and Robert Fairchild, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
081: Pre-Meeting Symposium #2: Essential Immunology for the Clinician
082: Pre-Meeting Symposium #3: Transplant Administrative Boot Camp Critical Elements: What Every Team Member Needs to Know
083: Pre-Meeting #4: The Troubled Renal Allograft - ARS (Don Hricik)
084: Pre-meeting #5: Leading Practices in Organ Donation and Preservation
085: Pre-meeting #6: Clinical Trials in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation
088: Pre-Meeting #7 : Essentials in Transplant Infectious Diseases: An Interactive Case-Based Session (ARS)
089: Pre-meeting #8: Update on Immunosuppression
090: Pre-meeting #9: Critical Care Issues in Liver Transplantation
091: Pre-meeting #10: Early Post Operative Complications
118: HIV & Transplantation: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?
Moderators: Barbara Murphy, MD, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY and Peter Chin-Hong, MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA
119: CD8 Cells: Suppressors and Effectors
Moderators: Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA and Tatsuo Kawai, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA
120: Controversies in Transplant Pharmacy Practice
Moderators: Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA and Tatsuo Kawai, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA
121: Deceased Donor Kidney Utilization and the Prospect of Ex-Vivo Repair
Moderators: Francis Delmonico, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and
Kevin O’Connor, MD, LifeCenter Northwest, Seattle, WA
122: Infection and Allograft Survival: "Indirect Effects"
Moderators: Atul Humar, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and
Richard Freeman, MD, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
123: Preclinical and Clinical Application of Regulatory T Cells in Transplantation Tolerance
Moderators: Li Zhang, MD, MSc, University Health Network, Toronto General
Hospital, Toronto, Canada and Sandy Feng
124: T Cell Immunity in Clinical Practice
Moderators: Hans Hirsch and Martina Sester, PhD, University of the Saarland,
Homburg, Germany
125: Tolerance in Clinical Transplantation through Mixed Chimerism: Update on Trials?
Moderators: Kenneth Brayman, MD, PhD, University of Virginia Health System,
Charlottesville, VA and Suzanne Ildstad, MD, University of Louisville,
Louisville, KY
136: Joint Plenary and Award Session
139: Controversies in Transplantation Geographic Disparities in Liver Transplantation and Novel Approaches for Addressing Them
Moderators: Krista Lentine, MD, St. Louis, MO and Goran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, Baylor Regional Transplant Institute, Dallas, TX
141: B Lymphocyte/Plasma Cell Homeostasis in Transplantation
Moderators: Michael Cancro, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Anita Chong, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
142: Biomarkers as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tools in Organ Transplantation
Moderators: Valeria Mas, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Glen Allen, VA and Thomas Mueller, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
143: New Insights in Fibrogenesis and Tissue Injury
Moderators: Robert Fairchild, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH and
Geetha Chalasani, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
144: Innovative Strategies to Protect the DCD Liver—ARS (Foley)
Moderators: David Foley MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and John
Renz, MD, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
145: Update and Future Directions of New Immunosuppressive Therapies in Renal Transplantation
Moderators: Bruce Kaplan, MD, AHSC, Tucson, AZ and Chris Larsen, MD, PhD, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA
145A: Novel Antivirals in the Pipeline for HCV: Implications for Transplantation
146: Featured Symposium: Infectious Diseases Update for Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Moderators: Patricia Birk, MD, Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada and
Simon Horslen, MB, ChB, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
147: Featured Symposium: Xenotransplantation: Lessons for Allotransplantation
Moderators: Gilles Benichou, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA and Pierre Gianello, MD, PhD,
158: Transplantation in Depth: Antibody Mediated Rejection: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment
Moderators: Stanley Jordan, MD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA and Mark Stegall, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
172: Allied Health Symposium: Are We Speaking the Same Language? Transplant Education and Consent
Moderators: Roxanne Taylor, RN, MSN, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME and Ashley Seawright, DNP, ACNP-BC, University of Mississippi Health Care
211: Advances in Transplantation for the Diabetic, Uremic Transplant Candidate Through Sequential Kidney and Pancreas or Islet Transplantation
Moderators: David Axelrod and James Markmann, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
212: B Lymphocytes in Transplant Rejection and Tolerance
Moderators: Stuart Knechtle, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA and Richard Pierson, III, MD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
213: Beyond the SRTR Expected Outcomes: How Should We Determine the Adequacy of Solid Organ Transplant Programs'' Performance?
Moderators: Kenneth Andreoni, MD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
and Bertram Kasiske
214: Donor-Derived Infections
Moderators: Shelly Morris, MD, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Miami
Beach, FL and Paolo Grossi, MD, PhD, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
215: Kidney Paired Donation: National Experience from US, Korea and Australia
Moderators: Edward Cole and Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
216: The Emerging Field of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
Moderators: Stefan Tullius, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston,
MA and Linda Cendales, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
217: Hepatitis C Infection after Liver Transplantation
Moderators: Robert Fontana, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and
Robert Brown, Jr., MD, PhD, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
218: Long Term Follow Up of the Living Donor: Ethics vs. Finance
Moderators: Cathy Garvey and Dianne Lapointe-Rudow
226: Joint Plenary and Award Session
230: State-of-the-Art Address: Rebuilding Autologous Organs: Cells, Scaffold, Organ
Doris Taylor, PhD
234: ALDLT: An Update
Moderators: Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA and Jean Emond, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
235: Lymphodepletion and Reconstitution of the T Cell Repertoire
Moderators: Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore,
MD and Anna Valujskikh, PhD, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
236: microRNAs: New Players in Gene Regulation, Tissue Injury and Rejection
Moderators: Olivia Martinez, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford, CA and Anthony Jevnikar, MD, London Health Sciences Centre,
University Hospital, London, Canada
237: Update on "Big Science" in Transplant
Moderators: Mohamed Sayegh, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
and Ali Naji, MD, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
238: Viral Hepatitis in Solid Organ Transplantation
Moderators: Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA and James Trotter, MD, University of Colorado HSC, Aurora,
CO
239: Featured Symposium: Improving Long-Term Survival in Thoracic Transplantation
Featured Symposium: Improving Long-Term Survival in Thoracic Transplantation
240: Transplant Jeopardy
Host: Jay Fishman
Contestants: Michael Lucey, MD, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinic,
Madison, WI, Dixon Kaufman, MD, Northwestern University Medical School,
Chicago, IL and David Sutherland, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota Hospital,
Minneapolis, MN
252: Transplantation in Depth: Tolerance is an Active Immunological Process: Part I and Part II
Moderators: Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD and Maria-Luisa Alegre, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
266: Allied Health Symposium: Living with an Organ Transplant in 2011: Management of Cardiovascular and Oncologic Co-Morbidity
Moderators: Margaret Bia, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Guilford, CT and Deborah Adey, MD, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
311: The Critically Ill Lung Transplant Candidate: Clinical Management and Donor Selection
Moderators: David Mason, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH and David Zaas, MD, MBA, Duke University, Rochester, NY
312: Barriers to the Recovery and Placement of High Risk Organs
Moderators: Randall Sung, MD, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor,
MI and Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kreische, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
313: What Every Clinician Should Know About Designing Better Transplant
314: Development of Small Molecules for Therapeutics
Moderators: Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA and Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
315: Immunosuppressive Agents and Infectious Disease
Moderators: Emily Blumberg, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA and Camille Kotton, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA
316: Memory T Cell Responses and Induction of Tolerance
317: The Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Hepatocellular Cancer
Moderators: Kevin Korenblat, MD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO and
John Lake, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
318: Renal Disease in Liver Transplantation
Moderators: Roy Bloom, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA and James Eason, MD, FACS, University of Tennessee—Methodist University
Hospital, Memphis, TN
327: Joint Plenary and Award Session & ASTS Awards
329: State-of-the-Art Address: 2099: A Look Back at Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine in the 21st Century
339A: FDA Symposium: FDA and Solid Organ Transplantation: Issues in the Practice of Medicine
Moderators: Patrick Archdeacon, MD, David Cohen and Robert Merion, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
353: Allied Health Symposium: Psychosocial Impact on Postoperative Transplant Outcomes
Moderators: Cathy Garvey and Deborah Ann Hoch, DNP, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
389: Role of Mechanical Circulatory Support in Heart Transplantation
Moderators: Mariell Jessup, MD, Penn Institute for Immunology, Philadelphia, PA and Josef Stehlik
390: Assessing the Risk for Kidney Allograft Failure
Moderators: Michael Mengel, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and
Fernando Cosio, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
391: Bone Disease in Kidney Transplant Patients: What Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches Should We Use?
Moderators: Margaret Bia, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Guilford, CT
and Michelle Josephson, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
392: Donor Management: Organ Donation and Critical Care
Moderators: Ginny McBride, MD, AMVAT Consulting, Grand Junction, CO and Ali Salim,
MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
393: Small Bowel Transplantation: The Basics
Moderators: Douglas Farmer, MD, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los
Angeles, CA and George Mazariegos, MD, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA
394: Stem Cell Mediated Therapy in Transplantation
Moderators: Robert Fairchild, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH and
Anna Valujskikh
404: Joint Plenary and Award Session
406: Keynote Address: The Not-So Distant Future of Organ Transplantation: Ethical Obstacles and Opportunities
417: What`s Hot, What`s New.
Moderators: Michael Abecassis and Robert Gaston, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL