Ticketed Events

Ticketed Workshops - $35 per workshop.  Breakfast/Lunch is provided

Sunday, June 3, 2012

LUNCHEON WORKSHOPS – TICKETED EVENTS
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

1. Controversies in Transplant Infections: Point-counterpoint - Influenza
Atul Humar, MD, MSC, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Deepali Kumar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2. Biomarkers and Beyond: Applying –Omic Technology to Patient Care
Valeria Mas, PhD, Associate Professor, VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA and Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD, MRCP, Professor, Pediatrics, Immunology & Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

3. Malignancy Transmission in Solid Organ Transplantation: Case Studies with US and International Perspectives
Jeremy Chapman, MD, Professor , Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia and Michael Nalesnik, MD, Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

4. Update on Clinical Pharmacology
Steven Gabardi, PharmD, BCPS, Abdominal Organ Transplant Clinical Specialist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA and Teun Van Gelder, MD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

5. Antiviral Therapy for HCV - One Year Later
Jeffrey Crippin, MD, Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA and Hugo Rosen, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

6. Great Cases in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Costi Sifri, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA and Marian Michaels, MD MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

SOLD OUT  7. Management of the Kidney Transplant Patient with a Failing/Failed Renal Allograft
Adam Frank, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Donald Hricik, MD, Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension University, Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

8. The Virtual Crossmatch - Understanding its Role in Wait List Management
Howard Gebel, PhD, Professor Pathology & Laboratory Medicine , Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA and Kathryn Tinckam, MD, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

9. Meet the Experts: Novel Strategies in Lung Transplantation: Ex-Vivo Lung Repair/ Immunosuppression in the Current Era
Sangeeta Bhorade, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, USA and Bartley P. Griffith, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

10. Controversies in Transplant Immunology I: Do IL-17 and/or Th17 Cells Play a Role in Allograft Rejection?
Yes: John Iacomini, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Tufts Medical School ,Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA and No: Robert Fairchild, MD, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

11. Controversies in Transplant Immunology II: Future of Islet
Yes: Ali Naji, MD, PhD, J. William White Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA , No: TBD

Monday, June 4, 2012

BREAKFAST WORKSHOPS – TICKETED EVENTS

7:00 AM – 8:15 AM

12. How to Prepare and Give a Talk
Peter Heeger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

13. Grant Writing - Basic Science
Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA and Robert Fairchild, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

14. Manuscript Writing – Basic Science
Andrew Wells, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
and Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

15. Grant Writing – Clinical Science
John Gill, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

LUNCHEON WORKSHOPS – TICKETED EVENTS
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

SOLD OUT 16. Controversies in CMV Prevention and Management: Pro and Con

Hans Hirsch, MD, MSc, Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel / Institute for Medical Microbiology, Basel, Switzerland and David Snydman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

17. New Diagnostic Strategies in Liver Transplantation
Jake Demetris, MD, Professor of Pathology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, MD, PhD, Professor in Hepatology, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

18. Diagnostic Testing in Transplant Infectious Disease: International Standards and New Assays
Angela Caliendo, Professor and Vice Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA and Jutta Preiksaitis, MD, Professor of Medicine, Provincial Lab Public Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada

SOLD OUT 19. Interpretation of Donor Specific Antibody Testing and Cross Match Techniques
Peter Nickerson, MD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada and Amy B. Hahn, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery/Director, Transplant Immunology Lab Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

20. Single Port Donor Nephrectomy: Techniques and Outcomes
Rolf Barth, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA and L. Thomas Chin, MD, Transplant Surgeon, Florida Hospital Transplant Center, Orlando, FL, USA

21. Extended Criteria Liver Donors: DCD and Beyond
Seth Karp, MD, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN, USA and Anton Skaro, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

22. Meet the Experts: Practical Approach to Circulating Antibodies for Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation….or Making Sense of the Sensitized Patient
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, Associate Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Adriana Zeevi, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

23. UNOS/SRTR Registry Analysis: The Devil is in the Details
Joseph Kim, MD, PhD, MHS, FRCP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Jon Snyder, PhD, Senior Epidemiologist, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA

24. Controversies in Transplant Immunology III: Depletional vs. Non-Depletional Induction: Which is the More Efficacious Strategy for the Induction of Robust, Long-Term Tolerance in Transplantation?
Non-Depletional: Ronald Gill, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Immunology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA and Depletional: David Sachs, MD, Director, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

25. Controversies in Transplant Immunology IV: Does NeoLymphorganogenesis in Allografts Impact Graft Injury and Outcome?
Yes: Fadi Lakkis, MD, Professor of Surgery and Immunology University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and No: William Baldwin, MD, PhD, Staff. Department of Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA