Programme

Morning Abstract and Concurrent Sessions

Abstract Sessions from 34 to 44

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room TBD Abstract Session

No lectures listed yet.

Pediatric treatments on the Horizon

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room TBD Concurrent
- Partial heart transplant in children
  
  Taufiek Konrad Rajab (US)
- Regulatory cell therapy for solid organ transplantation
  
  Fadi Issa (GB)

Technology to improve surgical and patient outcomes

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room TBD Concurrent

No lectures listed yet.

Bridge2Life Corporate Breakfast Symposium on Scaling better outcomes: The role of HOPE in contemporary transplant programs

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Room Parkside 1&2 Industry Symposium

Organized by Bridge2Life

No lectures listed yet.

Abstract and Concurrent Sessions

Abstract Sessions from 45 to 55

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room TBD Abstract Session

No lectures listed yet.

Optimizing and utilizing old organ donors

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room TBD Concurrent

No lectures listed yet.

The journey to clinical xenotransplantation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room TBD Concurrent
- Development of the gene edited pigs to get us to the clinic
  
  Peter Cowan (AU)

Coffee Break / Exhibits and Poster Viewing

Coffee Break

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Room Hall 1-2 Coffee Break

No lectures listed yet.

TTS Plenary's Plenary

TTS President's Plenary

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- TBD
  
  Haibo Wang (CN)
- Presidential address
  
  John J. Fung (US)

Lunch Break / Industry Symposia / Lunch with Experts & Mentors

Astellas Corporate Lunch Symposium on Strengthening the foundation: From tacrolimus consistency to durable graft outcomes

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Room Parkside 1&2 Industry Symposium

Organized by Astellas

No lectures listed yet.

Lunch and Learn Roundtable

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Room TBD Experts/Mentors
- Organ preservation, rejuvenation, and perfusion techniques
  
  Stefan G. Tullius (US)
- Living donor kidney transplantation & paired exchange
  
  Vivek Kute (IN)
- BK Guidelines
  
  Camille N. Kotton (US)
- "Organ Donation: From Death to Life". How to improve education about organ donation
  
  David Thomson (ZA)
- Grant Management
  
  Shaifali Sandal (CA)
- Transplant immunology & kidney injury
  
  Natasha Rogers (AU)
- Nursing Leadership in Transplant and Donation Systems
  
  Anne Floden (SE)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Nicole Isbel (AU)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Peter G. Stock (US)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Roslyn B. Mannon (US)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Wenshi Jiang (CN)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Marcelo Cantarovich (CA)
- AMR in kidney transplant recipients
  
  William Mulley (AU)
- What strategies can effectively prevent unethical practices in donation and transplantation?
  
  Maria Amalia Matamoros (CR)

SOTA, Thematic and Concurrent Sessions

Deceased Donation Research: Findings and Future Directions

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
Facilitator: Dominique Martin (AU)
- Donor intervention studies – ethical and practical challenges
  
  Dan Harvey (GB)
- Deceased donor physiological management research
  
  Gary F. Marklin (US)
- Thoracic ex-situ machine perfusion research
  
  Sarah Scheuer (AU)
- Biobanks for research
  
  Claire Gordon (AU)
- Panel Discussion
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

Targeting immune cell metabolism to control alloimmunity

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Treg metabolism and the impact of metabolites on their function and disease progression
  
  Ling Lu (CN)
- Regulation of macrophage immunometabolism to drive immunity and inflammation
  
  Yohana Toner (NL)
- T cell landscapes following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  
  Simone A. Minnie (US)

Artificial intelligence (AI) in Transplant Education

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- From concept to classroom: How to start using AI in transplant education?
  
  Susu Zughaier (QA)
- Mixed reality technology in organ transplantation
  
  Alfred Wei Chieh Kow (SG)
- Panel Discussion
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

Transplanting Against the Antibody Odds

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Overview of new HLA tools for measuring antibodies and rapid high resolution sequencing
  
  Sandra Tafulo (PT)
- Crossing DSA in lung transplant: Is necessity the mother of invention?
  
  Kieran Halloran (CA)
- Immune memory responses: Unmasking the hidden antibody potential
  
  Gonca E. Karahan (NL)
- Organ allocation strategies for HLA compatibility
  
  Philip Andrew Clayton (AU)

Redefining Surgical Excellence: Metrics, Equity, and Global Perspectives

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Novel outcome metrics in surgery
  
  Pierre-Alain Clavien (CH)
- Driving quality improvement through global surgical registries
  
  Dimitri A. Raptis (SA)
- Ensuring diversity in the transplant surgery workforce
  
  Kendra Conzen (US)
- Fatty liver disease in surgical patient
  
  Nazia Selzner (CA)

Biology and beyond: Multiple dimensions of transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Addressing gender disparity in access to pediatric kidney transplantation in India
  
  Kinnari Vala (IN)
- Social and cultural conflicts in uterine transplantation
  
  Limor Meoded Danon (IL)
- Impact of sex on cardiovascular outcomes after pediatric kidney transplantation
  
  Rizky Indrameikha Sugianto (DE)
- Intersection of sex/gender, and cancer after transplantation
  
  Brenda Maria Rosales (AU)

Obesity Management in Transplantation: Current Evidence and Practical Approaches

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Latest evidence on GLP-1s in transplantation
  
  Babak Orandi (US)
- Managing obesity without GLP-1s: Alternative strategies
  
  Amanda Velazquez (US)
- Bariatric surgery in transplantation: Opportunities and challenges
  
  Shashank R. Joshi (IN)
- Facilitating weight loss in individuals with frailty and sarcopenia
  
  Astrid Ruiz-Margáin (MX)

Pluripotent stem cells and regenerative medicine: the future of transplantation?

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Transplantation of pluripotent stem cell-derived progenitors and organoids to reconstitute in vivo liver function
  
  Eric Lagasse (US)
- Pluripotent stem cells: Where are we in building new lungs?
  
  Rhiannon Werder (AU)
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: Perspectives on recent developments and directions
  
  Anthony Weiss (AU)
- Stem cell derived islets under abdominal anterior rectus sheath in a type 1 diabetes patient
  
  Shusen Wang (CN)

Transplant Oncology: Peering Over the Horizon

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session
- Liver transplantation for unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma: Who truly benefits?
  
  Julie Heimbach (US)
- Neuroendocrine tumours and liver transplantation: Time to move beyond traditional boundaries?
  
  Takashi Ito (JP)
- Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and liver transplantation: Pushing the limits of what’s surgically and biologically possible
  
  Sudha Kodali (US)
- Liver transplantation for hepatoblastoma: Does biology drive the decision to transplant?
  
  Mohamed Rela (IN)
- Liver transplantation for non-hepatoblastoma paediatric tumours: LT as a curative tool?
  
  Seisuke Sakamoto (JP)

Indigenous Nation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD SOTA/Thematic Session

No lectures listed yet.

Global collaboration in organ transplantation: Advancing ethical access, innovation, and sustainability

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- Capacity building in low-resource settings
  
  Medhat Askar (QA)

Emerging infectious diseases in transplant ID

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- Climate change and the changing epidemiology of transplant infections
  
  Wanessa T. Clemente (BR)
- New outbreaks of old diseases: Measles and other re-emerging threats in transplantation
  
  Cameron Wolfe (US)
- Disease X and vaccine
  
  Deepali Kumar (CA)

Life after transplant: Supporting movement, confidence, and long-term recovery across all levels of ability (WTGF)

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- Panel discussion: Supporting all patients to move
  
  Discussion Period (AU)
  
  Details

ISOT: Redefining organ transplantation in resource-limited settings: Access, affordability, and global leadership from India - Part 1

1:30 PM – 3:05 PM Room TBD Concurrent
Moderators: Ravi Mohanka (IN), Swarnalatha Guditi (IN), Divyesh Engineer (IN), Amit Pasari (IN), Abi Abraham (IN), Amol Bhawane (IN), Manish Balwani (IN)
- Organ transplantation in India: Current status and emerging opportunities
  
  Sanjay Kolte (IN)
- Government reforms to increase access to organ transplantation: Policy innovations and outcomes
  
  Anil Kumar (IN)
- Optimizing transplant outcomes through cost-effective immunological evaluation in LMICs
  
  Manoj Gumber (IN)
- Regional success models in deceased donation: Pathways to national self-sufficiency in organ transplantation
  
  Subho Banerjee (IN)
- Improving access to living donor kidney transplantation through kidney exchange programmes
  
  Vivek Kute (IN)

Coffee Break / Exhibits and Poster Viewing

Coffee Break

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room Hall 1-2 Coffee Break

No lectures listed yet.

TSANZ Plenary Session / Afternoon Abstract and Concurrent Sessions

TSANZ President's Prize Awards

3:30 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Plenary Session

No lectures listed yet.

Abstract Sessions from 56 to 66

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room TBD Abstract Session

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Solving immune problems for the life of the allograft

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- Single cell spatial technologies in kidney allograft pathology- inflammation, fibrosis and beyond
  
  Mariam Alexander (US)

Pregnancy in renal transplant recipients: Outcomes, barriers, and clinical management

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- The pregnancy after renal transplantation OUTcomes registry (PARTOUT) in the Netherlands with granular data
  
  Margriet de Jong (NL)
- Assessing risk and overcoming barriers in pregnancy after kidney transplantation
  
  Shilpanjali Jesudason (AU)

ISOT: Redefining organ transplantation in resource-limited settings: Access, affordability, and global leadership from India - Part 2

3:35 PM – 6:10 PM Room TBD Concurrent
Moderators: Shruti Tapiawala (IN), Gireesh MS (IN), Mohan Patel (IN), Raj Kanwar Yadav (IN), Dhananjaya KL (IN), Pranjal Kashiv (IN), Ashish Sharma (IN), Narayan Prasad (IN), Vikas Jain (IN), Sourabh Sharma (IN), Pankaj Shah (IN)
- Making ABO-incompatible transplantation affordable for low- and middle-income countries: Scalable cost-reduction strategies
  
  Deepak S. Ray (IN)
- HLA desensitization in transplantation in LMIC: Balancing access, cost, and clinical outcomes
  
  Umapati Hegde (IN)
- Integrating cell-free DNA surveillance into cost-effective organ transplantation pathways in LMIC settings
  
  Pratik Das (IN)
- Gender disparity in organ transplantation: Insights and lessons from LMIC
  
  Khushboo Saxena (IN)
- Pioneering surgical techniques in transplantation: The global south contribution to global practice
  
  Pranjal Modi (IN)
- ISOT position statements for increasing access to transplantation
  
  Jigar Shrimali (IN)

Workshop Sessions / Industry Symposium / Poster Sessions

Multidisciplinary: Leveraging shared infrastructure for hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- The challenge of siloed program building vs. opportunities of integration
  
  Elmi Muller (ZA)
- Immunologic bridge
  
  Rajdeep Das (US)
- One pathogen, two populations
  
  Monica Slavin (AU)
- Beyond the graft
  
  Teun van Gelder (NL)
- Panel discussion on global perspectives on integration and innovation
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

AI in transplantation: From prediction to policy (and how not to get fooled)

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent

No lectures listed yet.

Approaching and navigating difficult conversations with transplant patients

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
- Palliative care post-transplant: Throughout patient journey and symptom management
  
  Kathryn Ducharlet (AU)

Poster Session 2

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room Hall 1-2 E-Posters

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Industry Symposium

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Room Parkside 1&2 Industry Symposium

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Networking Events

TSANZ Networking Event

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Room TBD Networking Event

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Mentee-Menor Networking Events

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Room TBD Networking Event

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Congress Networking Event (ICC)

7:30 PM – 10:30 PM Room TBD Networking Event

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