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