The Post-Graduate Weekend will take place from 14 - 15 August 2010 at the Vancouver Convention Centre and opens the XXIII International Congress of The Transplantation Society.
It will provide a wonderful forum for delegates to explore the innovations in transplantation biology and medicine. The Program also provides valuable interaction by enabling participants to meet and interact with leading scientists, physicians and surgeons in the field of transplantation.
The Program is designed specifically for medical professionals in training or for those in the early stages of their careers and is an excellent opportunity to obtain in depth exposure to transplantation medicine.
| Saturday, 14 August 2010 | |
| 07:55 - 09:30 | PGW Plenary Session Chairs: Kamal Sud, Australia & Hans Schlitt, Germany |
| 07:55 - 08:00 | Welcome from the PGW Co-Chairs Dr. John Gill and Dr. Marcelo Cantarovich |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Evolution of Deceased Organ Donation - Sam Shemie, Canada |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Evolution of Tissue Typing - Peter Nickerson, Canada |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Issues and Challenges of Drug Developments in the Current Era - TBC |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Break |
| 09:45 - 12:00 | Concurrent Workshops |
| Workshop: Clinical Immunosuppression Chairs: Vivekanand Jha, India & Jean Tchervenkov, Canada |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 | Overview of Immunosuppression: Present and Future - Phil Halloran, Canada |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Minimization Strategies - Edward Cole, Canada |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Immunosuppression in Highly Sensitized and ABO Incompatible Transplantation - Steve Chadban, Australia |
| Workshop: Basic Science - Primer in Transplant Immunology Chairs: Maggie Dallmann, UK & Philip O'Connell, Australia |
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| 09:45 - 10:18 | Inflammation - DAMPS, PAMPS and TLRs in Transplantation - Daniel Goldstein, USA |
| 10:18 - 10:51 | Adaptive Immunity - Basic and Beyond - Jean Paul Soulillou, France |
| 10:51 - 11:24 | Initiation of the Alloimmune Response - Fadi Lakkis, USA |
| 11:24 - 12:00 | Effector Cells and Injury Mechanisms in Transplantation - Ron Gill, USA |
| Workshop: Diagnostics Chairs: Kathryn Tinckam, Canada & Daniel Seron, Spain |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 | What Should I Know About the Banff Classification? - Kim Solez, Canada & Patricia Birk, Canada |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | What Should I Know About Acute Rejection and AMR? - Michael Mengel, Canada |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | What Should I Know About Microarrays? - Thomas Mueller, Canada |
| Workshop: Organ Donation Chairs: David Landsberg, Canada & Howard Nathan, USA |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 | Principles of Organ Allocation (All Organs) - Axel Rahmel, The Netherlands |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | DCD - Francis Delmonico, USA |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Organ Preservation - Rui Maio, Portugal |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Break |
| 13:15 - 15:30 | Concurrent Workshops |
| Workshop: Clinical Infections Chairs: Camille Kotton, USA & Athul Humar, Canada |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | CMW - Raymond Razonable, USA |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Polyoma Virus - Hans Hirsch, Switzerland |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | West Nile Virus, H!N1 Virus and Others - Shahid Husain, Canada |
| Workshop: Basic Science - The Newest Updates in Transplantation Chairs: Kenneth West, USA & Alvaro Pacheco-Silva, Brazil |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | Regulatory T Cells in Transplantation: What We Know and What We Don't Know - Nader Najafinian, USA |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Induced Stem Cells and Transplantation - TBC |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Autoimmunity and Transplantation - Diabetes and Beyond - Lucienne Chatenoud, France |
| Workshop: Living Donation Chairs: Steven Paraskevas, Canada & Federico Villamil, Argentina |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | Basic Principles of Living Donation Kidney - Jeff Zaltzman, Canada Liver - Mark Cattral, Canada |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Controversies in Living Donation Kidney - Emilio Poggio, USA Liver - Les Lilly, Canada |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Paired Exchange - Dorry Segev, USA |
| Workshop: Diagnostics Chairs: Bryce Kiberd, Canada & Dirk Kuypers, Belgium |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | What Should I Know About TDM? - Teun van Gelder, The Netherlands |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | What Should I Know About Pharmacogenomics? - Eric Thervet, France |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | What Should I Know About Pharmacodynamics? - Iain MacPhee, UK |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 - 18:00 | Concurrent Workshops |
| Workshop: Complications and Controversies in Clinical Transplantation Chairs: Alan Jardine, UK & Ramesh Prasad, Canada |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Pre-Transplant Cardiac Evaluation - Helen Pilmore, New Zealand Cardiac Complications - Greg Knoll, Canada |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Is There a Weight Limit for Transplantation? - Mikel Prieto, USA Is There an Age Limit for Transplantation from a LD or DD? - Ulrich Frei, Germany |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Malignancies - Angela Webster, Australia Prevention and Treatment of Bone Disease - Sandra Cockfield, Canada |
| Workshop: Basic Science - Emerging Hot Topics in Transplantation Chairs: Stefan Tullies, USA & Anthony Jevnikar, Canada |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Bringing "Omics" to Transplantation (Review of Proteomics, Genomics etc.) - Minnie Sarwal, USA |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | RNA Biology and Immune Regulation in Transplants - C. M. Croce, USA |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Tissue Engineering - Darrel Kotton, USA |
| Workshop: Diagnostics Chairs: Petra Reinke, Germany & Dan Salomon, USA |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Immune-Monitoring - Hans Dieter Volk, Germany |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Biomarkers - Dan Salomon, USA |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Proteomics and Metabolomics - Manikkam Suthanthiran, USA |
| Workshop: Nursing Chairs: Susan Chernenko, Canada & Bronwyn Levvey, Australia |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Shifting to an Interprofessional Practice Environment: What Can We Do? - Carol Chatalasingh, Canada |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Risk Taking Behavior in the Transplant Recipient - Clare Whittaker, UK |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Transplanting Foreign Nationals - An Interdisciplinary Approach - Alison Drabble, Canada |
| Workshop: Organ Procurement Chairs: Michael Bloch, Canada & Kevin O'Connor, USA |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Emerging Issues in the Declaration of Death - TBC |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Optimizing Organ Donor Management to Increase and Improve Transplantation - Michael Sharpe, Canada |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Current Concepts: Donation After Cardiocirculatory Death - Sam Shemie, Canada |
| Workshop: HLA Chairs: Patricia Campbell, Canada & Kathryn Tinckam, Canada |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Crossmatch Conundrums in 2010 - David Eckels, USA |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | HLA Matchmaker: Clinical Application in Day to Day Transplants - Rene Duquesnoy, USA |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Solid Phase AB Testing: Challenging Cases - Peter Nickerson, Canada |
| 18:00 - ??? | Special Evening with Registered PGW Delegates and Faculty |
| Sunday, 15 August 2010 Joint CST and TTS Post Graduate Course |
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| 08:30 - 10:45 | PGW and CST Plenary Session Chairs: Anne Dipchand, Canada & Carl Cardella, Canada |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | What Are The Ethical Responsibilities of the Investigators? - Allan Kirk, USA |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | How to Design a Study - Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, USA |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | How Do You Interpret a RCT - Joseph Kim, Canada |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 13:15 | PGW and CST Plenary Session Chairs: John Gill, Canada & Marcelo Cantarovich, Canada |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | How to Write a Grant - Roslyn Mannon, USA |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | How to Get Your Paper Published - Manikkam Suthanthiran, USA |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | How to Give a High Impact Presentation - Dick Fox, UK |
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