Course Description
This milestone conference honoring Dr. Göran Klintmalm will focus on updates on tolerance and rejection, new developments in organ preservation and liver perfusion devices and novel developments in management of the high risk donor.
Objectives
- To understand the emerging and novel technologies for diagnosis of rejection and assess tolerance
- To review the latest concepts in the evolving technology of liver perfusion devices and explore implementation in clinical practice
- To discuss new developments in management of the high risk donor
Scientific Program
Friday, April 3rd
1:00 pm
Liver Transplantation: A Historical Perspective
Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD
1:30 pm
Update on Immunology/Tolerance
Sandy Feng, MD
2:00 pm
Update on Serum Markers for Rejection
Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
2:30 pm
Discussion
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Established and Novel Markers of Rejection on Liver Biopsy
Jake Demetris, MD
4:00 pm
New Frontiers in Immunology
Peter Nickerson, Bsc (Med), MD, FRCPS, FCAHS
4:30 pm
Putting It All Together
Jack Lake, MD
5:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm
Reception
7:00 pm
Dinner and Tribute for
Göran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, FACS
Chief Emeritus, Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute,
Baylor University Medical Center
Göran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, FACS
Chief Emeritus, Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute,
Baylor University Medical Center
Saturday, April 4th
8:00 am
History of Liver Preservation
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS
8:30 am
Normothermic Preservation: European Perspective
Peter Friend, MD, FRCS
9:00 am
Normothermic Preservation: U.S. Perspective
Marwan Abouljoud, MD
9:30 am
Hypothermic Preservation
James Guarrera, MD
10:00 am
Discussion
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Redefining the High Risk Donor
Robert Montgomery, MD
11:30 am
The Donor Center of the Future
Gary F. Marklin, MD
12:30 pm
Liver Transplantation: 2030 & Beyond
Göran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, FACS
Target Audience
Gastroenterologists, hepatologists, transplant surgeons, transplant nurses, transplant program coordinators, social workers, and other staff engaged in the field of liver transplantation may all benefit from attendance.
This Conference is Endorsed by:
Accreditation & Credit Designation
The Foundation for Advanced Cardiovascular Education and Training (FACET), Provider #0007001, has approved this program for 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The Foundation for Advanced Cardiovascular Education and Training (FACET) was reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded accreditation status as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. To receive credit, attendees must complete the following steps: sign-in, attend the program, and complete an evaluation.
Course Directors
Sumeet Asrani, MD, MSc
- Medical Director, Center for Advanced Liver Disease
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Dallas, TX
Göran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, FACS
- Chief Emeritus
- Baylor Scott & White Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute
- Dallas, TX
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS
- Chief, Abdominal Transplant
- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
- Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
James F. Trotter, MD
- Medical Director, Transplant Hepatology
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Dallas, Texas
Faculty
Marwan Abouljoud, MD
- Marwan Abouljoud, MD
- Henry Ford Transplant Institute
- Detroit, MI
Diane Brockmeier, CEO
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Mid-America Transplant
- Past President, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD
- UCLA Transplant Center
- Los Angeles, CA
Jake Demetris, MD
- University of Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh, PA
Sandy Feng, MD
- University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco, CA
Peter Friend, MD, FRCS
- Professor of Transplantation
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, England
James Guarrera, MD
- James Guarrera, MD
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Newark, NJ
Jack Lake, MD
- Chief of Hepatology
- Director, Liver Transplant Program
- University of Minnesota Medical Center
- Minneapolis, MN
Robert Montgomery, MD
- NYU Langone Transplant Institute
- New York, NY
Peter Nickerson, Bsc (Med), MD, FRCPS, FCAHS
- University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
- Chief, Division of Transplantation Surgery
- Director, Penn Transplant Institute
- Philadelphia, PA
Location
Hotel Fairmont Dallas
Accommodations
Rooms are available at the Fairmont Dallas. Please use this link to the Fairmont Dallas booking website.