Gubbio Living Donor Transplant Program

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Course Description

The 10th International Conference: Gubbio Living Donor Transplant Program takes an in-depth look at four critical areas of transplatation, including:

  • Intestinal Transplantation
  • Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
  • Living Donor Liver Transplantation
  • Uterus Transplantation

This three day conference starts with a review, then dives deep into technical and ethical issues surrounding each type of transplantation.

Scientific Program


Thursday, June 16, 2022

2:30 pm
Progresses in Medical Management of Intestinal Failure
Tim Van Uytsel, MD
2:45 pm
Reconstructive Surgery of the Short Bowel
Antonino Morabito, MD, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Eng), FICS
3:00 pm
Review of the Intestinal Transplant Registry
Jacques Pirenne, MD
3:15 pm
Intestinal Transplant in Pediatrics
Darius Mirza, MD
3:30 pm
Intestinal Transplant in Adults
Andrew Butler
3:45 pm
Intestinal Transplantation: The Pittsburgh Programme
Abhinav Humar, MD
Open Forum

Friday, June 17, 2022

Organizing Committee Welcome
8:15 am
Risk of Live Donation: Relative Risk, Absolute Risk and Trouble with Comparator Groups
Bruce Kaplan, MD
8:30 am
Long-Term Outcomes After Living Donor Transplantation – The U.S. Experience
Rainer WG Gruessner, MD, FACS
LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: CURRENT ISSUES
8:45 am
Tolerance Induction by Cell Therapy
Edward Geissler, PhD
9:00 am
Long-Term Follow Up of Tolerance Through Mixed Chimerism
Joseph Leventhal, MD, PhD
9:15 am
GFR Decline Post Donation What to Expect and How to Select Appropriate Candidates for Kidney Donation
Emilio D. Poggio, MD
9:30 am
APOL1 and Donor/Recipient Risk of Graft Failure
Barry I Freedman, MD, FACP
9:45 am
New Approach in Immunosuppressive Therapy for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Lorenzo Gallon, MD
Coffee break
LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: IMMUNIOLOGICAL ISSUES
10:15 am
Chronic T Cell Mediated Rejection
Enver Akalin, MD, FST, FASN
10:30 am
Donor Reactive Memory B-cells and Outcomes
Oriol Bestard, MD, PhD
10:45 am
cABMR – Any Treatment?
Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD
11:00 am
nonHLA Alloimmunity
Rainer Oberbauer, MD
11:15 am
Strategies to Overcome Immunological Barriers in Living Kidney Transplantation: Desensibilization Versus Paired Kidney Donation
Ugo Boggi, MD, FEBS
11:30 am
Advances in Treatment of Antibody Mediated Rejection
Stanley Jordan, MD, FASN, FAST
Lunch
LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: TECHNICAL ISSUES I
12:45 pm
Living Donation – What Ails Us?
Lloyd Ratner, MD, MPH, FACS
1:00 pm
Robotic Kidney for Competitive Athletes
Mauro Frongia, MD
1:15 pm
A Randomized Trial of Robotic Kidney Transplant with Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Transplant Alone
Ivo G. Tzvetanov, MD, FACS
1:30 pm
A Metric Driven Approach to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Adam Bingaman, MD, PhD
LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: TECHNICAL ISSUES II
1:45 pm
Domino KPD Chains Starting with Deceased Donors: Three Years Later
Lucrezia Furian, MD
2:00 pm
Engineering Low Eplet Mismatch Living Donor Transplants: A Transformative Paradigm
Robert Montgomery, MD
2:15 pm
A Strategy to Increase Return to Work After Kidney Transplant with Specialized Resistance Training: Results of a Randomized Trial
Enrico Benedetti, MD, FACS
2:30 pm
Cold Ischaemia Time in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Underestimated Importance
Frank JMF Dor, MD, PhD, FEB(Hon), FRCS
Open Forum
Coffee Break
LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: CURRENT DONOR ISSUES
3:15 pm
Big Data and Living Kidney Donors: An Update
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
3:30 pm
Strategies to Maximize Kidney Paired Donation. The NKR Experience
Mikel Prieto, MD
3:45 pm
The Expectation, Implementation, and Impact of a Presidential Executive Order in Expanding Opportunities for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation and the Advances Over the Last Decade
Matthew Cooper, MD, FACS
4:00 pm
The Long-Term Follow Up of a Living Donor
Raja Kandaswamy, MD, MBA, FACS
4:15 pm
Impact of Government-Sponsored Financial Reimbursement of Expenses on Living Donation in the U.S.
Akinlolu Ojo, MD
Open Forum
Kidney Transplant Abstract Oral Presentations
Adjourn
Gala Dinner

Saturday, June 18, 2022

8:30 am
The Technical Impact of Hepatectomy for Living Donation in Hepato-biliary Surgery
Massimo Malago, MD
LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
8:50 am
Outcome Comparison DCD vs Living Donor
Gregory J. McKenna, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
9:05 am
Robotic Right Lobe
Dieter Broering, MD, PhD, FEBS
9:20 am
Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy
Choon Hyuck David Kwon, MD, PhD
9:35 am
Open Approach
Mohamed Rela, MBBS, FRCS (London), MS
9:50 am
UNOS and Living Donation Present and Future of Donor Policies
David Mulligan, MD, FACS
10:05 am
Financial Impact of Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Is It Competitive Against Deceased Liver Transplantation?
Julie Heimbach, MD, FACS
Coffee Break
LIVING DONOR ISSUES
10:30 am
Backbench Preparation of a Living Donor Graft
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS
10:45 am
Living Donor for Re-Transplantation
Abhinav Humar, MD
11:00 am
Lessons Learnt from A2ALL: Research
James F. Trotter, MD
11:15 am
Predicting the Impact of Donor and Recipient Genetics on Post-Transplant Well-Being: Relevance in the Living Donor Transplant Setting
Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
11:30 am
The Landscape of Living Liver Donation in the US
Marwan Abouljoud, MD
11:45 am
Lessons Learnt from A2ALL: The Donor
Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS
12:00 pm
Lessons Learnt from A2ALL: The Recipient
Kim M. Olthoff, MD, FACS
Discussion
LUNCH
LIVING DONOR PRESENT AND FUTURE
1:30 pm
Living Donation for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH
1:45 pm
Crisis Management Planning in the Event of a Living Donor Death: Recommendations from the AST Living Donor Community of Practice
Daniel G. Maluf, MD, FAST
Coffee Break
2:00 pm
Living Donation for Colo-Rectal Metastasis
Silvio Nadalin, MD
Discussion
ETHICS OF LIVING DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION
Living Donor Liver Transplant at the Extreme: Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis and Colo-rectal Metastasis
2:30 pm
pro
Jim Pomposelli, MD
2:45 pm
con
Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
3:00 pm
The New Field of Clinical Medical Ethics and Its Contributions to Surgical Ethics and Living Organ Donation
Mark Siegler, MD
3:15 pm
Should the Living Donor Ethical Debate Evolve from Immediate Surgical Risk?
Anji Wall, MD, PhD, FACS
UTERUS TRANSPLANT
3:30 pm
Evolution and Growth of Uterus Transplantation
Jiri Fronek, MD, PhD, FRCS, FEBS, FICS, MHA
3:45 pm
The Importance of Research in Uterus Transplantation
Paige Porrett, MD, PhD
Coffee Break
4:15 pm
Development and Implementation of Robot Assisted Living Donor Hysterectomy
E. Colin Koon, MD, PhD
4:30 pm
Management of the Uterus Transplant Recipient
Liza Johannesson, MD
Discussion
Adjourn

Course Directors


Enrico Benedetti, MD, FACS
  • Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery - Professor and Head
  • Medical Director, Abdominal Organ Transplant Program
  • Department of Surgery
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
Lorenzo Gallon, MD
  • Professor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Medical Director, Translational Medicine Program
  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Illinois, USA
Rainer WG Gruessner, MD, FACS
  • Professor of Surgery
  • State University of New York
  • New York, USA
Jacques Pirenne, MD
  • Head, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Leuven Intestinal Failure and Transplantation Center / LIFT
  • Leuven, Belgium
Mark Siegler, MD
  • Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Executive Director, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence
  • Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  • University of Chicago
  • Illinois, USA
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS
  • Chief, Abdominal Transplant
  • Baylor University Medical Center Dallas
  • Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth

Marwan Abouljoud, MD
  • Marwan Abouljoud, MD
  • Henry Ford Transplant Institute
  • Detroit, MI
Enver Akalin, MD, FST, FASN
  • Professor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program
  • Director, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship
  • ontefiore Medical Center
  • New York, USA
Oriol Bestard, MD, PhD
  • Head of Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation
  • Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (HUVH)
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Research lab group leader, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)
  • Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus
  • Spain
Adam Bingaman, MD, PhD
  • Director of Abdominal Organ Transplant
  • Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Hospital
  • Texas, USA
Ugo Boggi, MD, FEBS
  • Professor of Surgery
  • University of Pisa
  • Italy
Dieter Broering, MD, PhD, FEBS
  • Director, Organ Transplant Center
  • Chairman, Department of Surgery
  • King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH
  • Vincent Astor Distinguished Professor of Medicine
  • Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Weill Cornell Medicine
Patrizia Burra, MD, PhD
Andrew Butler
  • Consultant Transplant Surgeon
  • Cambridge University Hospitals
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom
Matthew Cooper, MD, FACS
  • Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
  • Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute
  • Washington, DC
Frank JMF Dor, MD, PhD, FEB(Hon), FRCS
  • Consultant Transplant Surgeon
  • Head of Transplantation
  • Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre
  • United Kingdom
Barry I Freedman, MD, FACP
  • John Felts III Professor and Chair, Section on Nephrology
  • Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • Winston-Salem, USA
Jiri Fronek, MD, PhD, FRCS, FEBS, FICS, MHA
  • Transplant Surgery Department
  • Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • Prague, Czech Republic
Mauro Frongia, MD
  • Director, Urology, Kidney Transplant and Robotic Surgery
  • Azienda Ospedaliera G.Brotzu
  • Italy
Lucrezia Furian, MD
  • Associate Professor
  • Azienda Ospedale Universita' di Padova
  • Italy
Edward Geissler, PhD
  • Head of Experimental Surgery
  • University Hospital Regensburg
  • Germany
Pier C. Giulianotti, MD, FACS
  • Lloyd M. Nyhus Chair in General Surgery
  • Professor & Chief
  • Division of Minimally Invasive, General & Robotic Surgery
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Illinois, USA
Julie Heimbach, MD, FACS
  • Director Liver Transplantation
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester
  • Minnesota, USA
Abhinav Humar, MD
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Pittsburgh, PA
Liza Johannesson, MD
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Baylor University Medical Center Dallas
  • Dallas, TX
Stanley Jordan, MD, FASN, FAST
  • Director, Nephrology & Transplant Immunology
  • Medical Director, Kidney Transplant Program
  • Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center
  • California, USA
Raja Kandaswamy, MD, MBA, FACS
  • Sutherland-Butterflied Professor of Immunology and Transplantation
  • Vice Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery
  • Medical Director, Solid Organ Transplant Services
  • University of Minnesota Medical Center
  • Minnesota, USA
Bruce Kaplan, MD
  • Professor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Medical and Scientific Director
  • Colorado Center for Transplantation Care, Research and Education (CCTCARE)
  • Colorado, USA
E. Colin Koon, MD, PhD
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Baylor University Medical Center Dallas
  • Dallas, TX
Choon Hyuck David Kwon, MD, PhD
  • Director of Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
  • Department of Surgery
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Ohio, USA
Joseph Leventhal, MD, PhD
  • Fowler McCormick Professor in Surgery
  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Illinois, USA
Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD
  • Professor of Nephrology
  • Necker Hospital
  • France
Massimo Malago, MD
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Royal Free London
  • London, United Kingdom
Daniel G. Maluf, MD, FAST
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Director, Program in Transplantation
  • University of Maryland Medical Center
  • Maryland, USA
Gregory J. McKenna, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
  • Transplant Surgeon
  • Baylor University Medical Center
  • Dallas, TX
Darius Mirza, MD
  • Professor of Hepatobiliary & Transplant Surgery
  • Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital
  • Birmingham, United Kingdom
Robert Montgomery, MD
  • NYU Langone Transplant Institute
  • New York, NY
Antonino Morabito, MD, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Eng), FICS
  • Professor and Head, Pediatric Surgery
  • University of Florence
  • Florence, Italy
David Mulligan, MD, FACS
  • Professor of Surgery (Transplant)
  • Section Chief, Transplantation Surgery and Immunology
  • Yale School of Medicine
  • New Haven, CT
Silvio Nadalin, MD
  • Director Transplant Center
  • University of Tubingen
  • Tubingen, Germany
Rainer Oberbauer, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • University of Vienna
  • Past Chair, EKITA
  • Austria
Jose Oberholzer, MD, MHCM, FACS
  • Stickler Family Professor of Surgery
  • Director, Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center
  • University of Virginia
  • Virginia, USA
Akinlolu Ojo, MD
  • Executive Dean
  • University of Kansas School of Medicine
  • Kansas, USA
Kim M. Olthoff, MD, FACS
  • Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery
  • Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Penn Transplant Institute
  • Pennsylvania, USA
Emilio D. Poggio, MD
  • Director, Center for Renal & Pancreas Transplantation
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Ohio, USA
Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS
  • Chief of Transplant Surgery
  • University of Colorado, School of Medicine
  • Colorado, USA
Jim Pomposelli, MD
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation
  • University of Colorado, School of Medicine
  • Colorado, USA
Paige Porrett, MD, PhD
  • Assistant Professor Of Surgery
  • Division of Transplant Surgery
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia, PA
Mikel Prieto, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Minnesota, USA
Lloyd Ratner, MD, MPH, FACS
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Columbia University
  • New York, USA
Mohamed Rela, MBBS, FRCS (London), MS
  • Chairman & Managing Director
  • Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre
  • Chennai, India
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
  • Associate Vice-Chair for Research
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Johns Hopkins University
Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
  • Chief, Division of Transplantation Surgery
  • Director, Penn Transplant Institute
  • Philadelphia, PA
James F. Trotter, MD
  • Medical Director, Transplant Hepatology
  • Baylor University Medical Center
  • Dallas, Texas
Robert D. Truog, MD
  • Director, Harvard Center for Bioethics
  • qFrances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine
  • Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)
Ivo G. Tzvetanov, MD, FACS
  • Carl H. and Billie M. Frese & Gerald S. Moss Professorship in Transplant
  • Department of Surgery
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Illinois, USA
Tim Van Uytsel, MD
  • Assistant Professor
  • Leuven Intestinal Failure and Transplantation Center / LIFT
  • Leuven, Belgium
Anji Wall, MD, PhD, FACS
  • Transplant Surgeon
  • Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute
  • Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Location

Park Hotel ai Cappuccini, Gubbio (Perugia)

Gubbio, Italy