Educational Track
Created by Marina Berenguer, Frans Class, Marc Dahlke, Frank Dor, Josep Grinyo, Maarten Naesens, Arne Neyrinck and the ESOT Education Committee: Frederike Bemelman, Paolo Muiesan, Wojtek Polak, Marlies Reinders, Raj Thuraisingham, Luca Toti, Annemarie Weissenbacher.
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Monday 25 September
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07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 1: Histocompatibility: your worst nightmare?
CHAIRS: Frans Claas, Leiden, The Netherlands and David Taube, London, United Kingdom
Lectures:
- Application of Luminex® assays before and after transplantation
Christophe Legendre, Paris, France - From actual towards virtual crossmatches
Craig Taylor, Cambridge, United Kingdom - HLA epitope matching
Sebastiaan Heidt, Leiden, The Netherlands - Hidden sensitization: the memory B cell repertoire
Oriol Bestard, Barcelona, Spain
07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 2: Live donation
CHAIRS: Paolo Muiesan, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Raj Thuraisingham, London, United Kingdom
Lectures:
- Laparoscopy replacing open surgery in live liver donation
Ki Hun Kim, Seoul, South Korea - Governance and near miss events in live liver donation
Juan Carlos García-Valdecasas, Barcelona, Spain - Minor clinical abnormalities in kidney donors
Rachel Hilton, London, United Kingdom - Teaching minimally-invasive live donor nephrectomy
Lloyd Ratner, New York, United States
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Tuesday 26 September
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07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 3 : Above and below the diaphragm
CHAIRS: Jim Egan, Dublin, Ireland and Annemarie Weissenbacher, Oxford, United Kingdom
Lectures :
- Old and new listing criteria for lung and heart transplantation
John Dark, Newcastle, United Kingdom - Old and new listing criteria for liver, pancreas and intestinal transplantation
Peter Friend, Oxford, United Kingdom - How do factors from above the diaphragm impact on the outcome of transplantation below the diaphragm?
Stephan Eschertzhuber, Innsbruck, Austria - Combined transplanted patients - Which organ drives the immunosuppressive regimen?
Nassim Kamar, Toulouse, France
07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 4 : Pathophysiology and endpoints on tolerance
CHAIRS: Cristina Cuturi, Nantes, France and Nina Pilat, Vienna, Austria
Lectures :
- Clinical tolerance studies
Megan Sykes, New York, United States - Endpoints and biomarkers for clinical tolerance
Birgit Sawitzki, Berlin, Germany - Macrophages and the induction of tolerance
Jordi Orchando, New York, United States - Treg inducing allograft tolerance in human
Giovanna Lombardi, London, United Kingdom
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Wednesday 27 September
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07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 5 : Infection diseases
CHAIRS: Alain Le Moine, Brussels, Belgium and Frederike Bemelman, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lectures:
- Prophylaxis of infections in solid organ transplantation (including donor derived infections)
Jay Alan Fishman, Boston, United States - Infectious diseases in the central nervous system of Solid Organ Transplant patients
Peter Portegies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Fungal and Yeast Infections in SOT patients
José María Aguado, Madrid, Spain - Impact of Infection on Chronic Allograft Dysfunction and Allograft Survival After Solid Organ Transplantation
Oriol Manuel, Lausanne, Switzerland
07.30-09.00 EDUCATIONAL TRACK 6 : The allograft phenotype and its clinical implications
CHAIRS: Lorna Marson, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Marlies Reinders, Leiden, The Netherlands
Lectures:
- Allo-immune responses: what a clinician should know
Frans Claas, Leiden, The Netherlands - Rejection phenotypes across organs: revisiting the basics
Chris Bellamy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - How to integrate complex histological phenotypes in routine clinical decision making?
Daniel Serón, Barcelona, Spain - Time to make computer-assisted instead of eminence-based decisions?
Alexandre Loupy, Paris, France