Friday, January 16, 2009

Defining the Issue of Donor-Recipient Matching

• The Match Game: General Concepts —Dixon B. Kaufman, MD, PhD
• Youthful Indiscretions: Initial Attempts to Match Donors and Recipients —William Pfaff, MD
• You Were Meant for Me: Evaluating Donor and Recipient Interactions —Dorry L. Segev, MD
• Love the One You’re With: Extrarenal Transplants —David A. Gerber, MD
• Take a Chance on Me: Infected and Malignancy Risk Donors —Timothy L. Pruett, MD

Keynote Speaker Session

• Tell Her About It: Do Recipients of High-Risk Organs Require Complete Informed Consent?
• Pro — John P. Roberts, MD
• Con — Michael M. Abecassis, MD, MBA

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Flirting with Disaster: Crossing Antibody Barriers

• Just My Imagination: Antibody Detection and Virtual Crossmatching —James M. Gloor, MD
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart: The Sensitized Thoracic Recipient —Kenneth R. McCurry, MD
• I Won't Back Down: Options for the Sensitized Kidney Recipient —Robert A. Montgomery, MD

Oral Abstract Presentations

• Never-Ending Altruistic Donor Chains in Kidney Paired Donation —Sommer Gentry, PhD
• Assessing the Quality of Pancreas Allografts: The Pancreas Donor Risk Index —David A. Axelrod, MD, MBA
• Kidney Transplantation in Previous Heart or Lung Recipients —Bonnie E. Lonze, MD, PhD
• Histidine-Tryptophan-Ketoglutarate (HTK) is Associated with Reduced Graft Survival in Deceased Donor Livers, Especially Those Donated after Cardiac Death —Zoe A. Stewart, MD, PhD
• Charlson Comorbidity Index Predicts Patient Survival and Delayed Graft Function Following ECD Transplantation Independent of Age —David B. Leeser, MD
• Flow Cytometry Crossmatch before Kidney Transplantation in Contemporary Practice: Target Cell Utilization, Results Patterns, and Associated Graft Outcomes —Kian Modanlou, MD
• The Impact of Kidney Transplantation on Heart Failure Risk Varies with Candidate Body Mass Index and Donor Type —Krista L. Lentine, MD, MS
• Changing Trends in the Impact of HLA Mismatch on Outcomes of Live Donor Kidney Transplants —Jayme E. Locke, MD, MPH

Topical Issues in Donor-Recipient Matching

• How Sweet It Is: Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas versus Pancreas after Living Donor Kidney Transplant —Raja Kandaswamy, MD
• Live and Let Die: DCD and High DRI Livers —Christopher B. Hughes, MD
• Ice Water in My Veins: Ex-vivo Perfusion —Shaf Keshavjee, MD

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Oral Abstract Presentations

• Matching Donor to Recipient in Lung Transplantation: How Much Does Size Matter? —David Mason, MD
• Simulated Liver Allocation Modeling Donor/Recipient Variables Improves Transplant Patient Survival and Waitlist Mortality —Beau Kelly, MD
• Seven Year Experience with 222 Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplants at a Single Center —Rajinder P. Singh, MD, MRCS
• Age Discordance of Donors and Recipients in Kidney Transplantation —George C. Wu, MD
• New Horizon for Older Patients with Imminent ERSD. Preemptive ECD Renal Allograft Offers the Same Live Expectancy to Older Recipients as SCD Kidney Transplantation on Dialysis —Piotr P. Witkowski, MD
• Outcomes and Utilization of Kidneys from Deceased Donors with Acute Kidney Injury —Philippe M. Garzon, MD
• Who Are the High-Risk Heart Transplant Recipients and Donors? —Mark Russo, MD, PhD

State of the Art Presentation

• Innate Immunity —Walter Land, MD

Debates

• I Do It My Way: Registry Predictors Do Not Substitute for Surgeon Judgment in Donor-Recipient Matching
• Pro — Goran B. Klintmalm, MD, PhD
• Con — Robert M. Merion, MD

• That’s Life: LYFT Should be Used in Kidney Allocation
• Pro — Mark D. Stegall, MD
• Con — Mitchell L. Henry, MD

Friday, January 16, 2009

Standards for Organ Transplantation:

Why Do We Need Them and How Do We Maintain Them?

• What Types of Standards We Need in Transplantation Today —Timothy L. Pruett
• Developing Standards for DCD Liver Transplantation —David J. Reich, MD
• Developing Standards for DCD Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation —Peter L. Abt, MD
• Developing Standards for Living Donor Liver Transplantation —Elizabeth A. Pomfret, MD, PhD
• Developing Standards for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation —Arthur J. Matas, MD

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Business Practice Seminar

Transplant Center Models: From Design to Practice

• Overview of Transplant Center Components: How They Interact? —Michael M. Abecassis, MD, MBA
• Following the Money Trail: The Physician Perspective—Paul C. Kuo, MD, MBA
• Follow the Money Trail: The Hospital Perspective—G. Taylor Wilson, CPA,   Patti Pickering, MBA
• Transplant Providers: One for All and All for One —Alan N. Langnas, DO
• Hurdles to Transplant Center Integration: The "Us and Them Syndrome" —Glenn A. Halff, MD
• Transplant Surgeon Compensation: Present and Future —Marwan S. Abouljoud, MD

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Critical Care Luncheon Symposium

The Wrong Organ for the Wrong Recipient: Critical Management Options

• Introduction — Dinesh Ranjan, MD
• ECD Kidney in an Older Recipient: "Bad Heart" and DGF —Betsy Tuttle-Newhall, MD
• Pancreatitis and Sepsis: Type II DM, Obesity and KP Transplant—Robert Goldstein, MD & Edmund Sanchez, MD
• Small-for-Size Syndrome in LDLT—Giuliano Testa, MD
• Intra-Operative Porto-Pulmonary Hypertension —Claus Niemann, MD