SOTA 04: Allorecognition and Response
Chairs
Anthony Jevnikar
Dr. Jevnikar is currently the Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation at London Health Sciences Centre University Hospital, and Co-Director of the Multi Organ Transplant Program.
Dr. Jevnikar is recognized for basic research in epithelial cell injury and the regulation of cellular death as a means to alter inflammation and promote allograft survival. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 original research publications on both basic and clinical research primarily in transplantation, but also type I diabetes. He has been honoured by the Kidney Foundation of Canada by receiving the Medal for Research Excellence. He is an active member of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, being past-president (2002-2004) and the Transplant Society as a member of the Basic Science Committee (2010-). Dr. Jevnikar is also an active member of the AST being a member of the Awards and Grants and Membership committees as well as a past AST Chair of the American Transplant Congress. He is currently an AST Councillor-at-Large and a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR) Internal Advisory Board for Infection and Immunity, which supports transplantation research in Canada.
Terry Strom
Dr Strom, a native of Chicago, Illinois, received his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Illinois as a recipient of an Illinois State Scholarship. He trained in internal medicine at the University Of Illinois Hospital and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and in nephrology and transplant immunology at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital) under the tutelage of John Merrill and Bernie Carpenter. Upon completion of his training he was appointed medical director of the hospital’s transplant program. Beginning with a NIH Career Development Award granted two yrs after the completion of his fellowship he has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 30 years. He moved to Beth Israel Hospital, another Harvard teaching hospital, as medical director of their transplant program. At present, he is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Harvard and with Larry Turka Co-Scientific Director of Transplant Institute at BIDMC. Dr Strom has delivered the Lilly Lecture of the Royal College of Physicians and been awarded life-time achievement awards by the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Nephrology. He is the founding president of the American Society of Transplantation, past president of the Clinical Immunology Society and has served as a council member of several honorific societies.
Speakers
Fadi Lakkis
Dr. Fadi Lakkis received his medical degree from the American University
of Beirut, Lebanon, and his fellowship training in Nephrology and Transplantation Immunology at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. After serving on the faculty of Emory University (1992 – 2001) and Yale University (2001 – 2005), Dr. Lakkis was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 as the Frank and Athena Sarris Chair in Transplantation Biology and the Scientific Director of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. Funded by the NIH, Dr. Lakkis’s laboratory is focused on three fundamental areas in transplantation immunology: (1) allorecognition in the innate immune system, using both invertebrate and vertebrate models of transplantation; (2) the role of lymphoid tissues in the initiation and propagation of the alloimmune response; and (3) the biology of memory T cells in organ transplantation. Dr. Lakkis has received numerous awards in recognition of his research. He was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) in 2002, was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in the same year and to the American Association of Physicians (AAP) in 2008. Dr. Lakkis has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Transplantation.
Patrick Wilson
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Anita Chong
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