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• Personalizing immunosuppression in liver transplantation: From microbiome to malignancy
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
  • Personalizing IS in complex liver transplant cases: Autoimmune disease, NASH, elderly recipients

    Marina Berenguer (ES)
  • Tacrolimus intrapatient variability in solid organ transplantation

    Juhan Lee (KR)

• Vasculopathy: A tale of three organs
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.6 Concurrent
  • What should we continue to learn from renal allograft pathology

    Mariam Alexander (US)

• Beyond survival: Addressing mental health in transplantation
  9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room C4.7 Concurrent
  • Why survival alone is not sufficient for transplant successs

    Mariel Nöhre (DE)
  • Psychological distress across the transplant journey

    Iris Fontanilla (NZ)
  • Practical strategies for integrating mental health in transplant care

    Ming Hwei Yek (US)
  • Panel Discussion

    Discussion Period (AU)

• Dedicated donor care units: Centralized donor transfer and outcome optimization
  9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderator / Panelists: David Thomson (ZA), Dan Harvey (GB)

  • 25 years of innovation: The St. Louis donor care unit

    Gary F. Marklin (US)
  • The US donor care unit landscape

    Jennifer Prinz (US)
  • Panel Discussion

    Discussion Period (AU)

• DCD: Controlled and uncontrolled—Where are we going?
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Facilitator: Kenneth J. Woodside (US)

  • Role of ICU physicians

    Sara Alcantara Carmona (ES)
  • Question Period

    Discussion Period (AU)

• The -omic era in allograft pathology
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Does metabolic phenotype in the kidney affect transplant outcome?

    Ana Konvalinka (CA)
  • Endogenous peptides in T cell allorecognition and beyond – Lessons from preclinical models

    Alexandra Sharland (AU)

• Transplantation journals: Updates and opportunities
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderators: Stefan Tullius (US), Fadi Issa (GB)

  • Structure, achievements, goals – Getting your work published, recognized and highlighted

    Stefan Tullius (US)
  • Transplant-Direct: The online campaign journal with an own agenda

    Edward Geissler (DE)
  • AI and publishing: When, how and what is legit?

    Germaine Wong (AU)

• The mentorship mosaic: Fostering growth in transplant training and practice
  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderators: Sarah Tsou (US), Natasha Rogers (AU)

  • Panel discussant

    Friederike Martin (DE)
  • Panel discussant

    Gomathy Narasimhan (IN)
  • Panel discussant

    Khushboo Saxena (IN)

• Building high-performing transplant registries: Global consensus recommendations and a practical maturity framework
  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderator / Panelist: Sang Joseph Kim (CA)

  • Opening remarks and overview: From fragmented data to global alignment. Why transplant registries need a shared framework

    Sang Joseph Kim (CA)
  • Creating a transplant registry: Defining purpose, scope, and sustainable infrastructure

    Germaine Wong (AU)
  • Establishing trust: Governance, ethics, and legal architecture of transplant registries

    Axel Rahmel (DE)
  • From aspirational standards to practical assessment: Introducing the transplant registry maturity model

    Yee Lu (US)
  • Panel Discussion

    Discussion Period (AU)
  • Panelist

    Nicole Jane Scholes-Robertson (AU)

• Advancing ABO histocompatibility: Needs and solutions
  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • ABO antigens and antibodies: Updating old dogmas

    Anne Halpin (CA)
  • ABO incompatible kidney transplantation, strategies and successes

    Marta Crespo Barrio (ES)

• Expanding donor access: The impact of ECMO in thoracic transplantation a TTS/ISHLT Conjunct Session
  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderators: Pablo Sanchez (US), Raj Ramanan (US)

  • The role of NRP and machine perfusion in cardiothoracic transplantation

    Sandra Lindstedt Ingemansson (SE)

• Sex, cancer, and the graft: What women need most from transplant care
  4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C3.3 Concurrent
  • Do women do better or worse – What the data say across cancer and transplant?

    Brenda Maria Rosales (AU)
  • Designing transplant care for women: drugs, risks, and immune set‑points

    Yao Xiao (US)
  • Post transplant care: Patient perspectives

    Nicole Jane Scholes-Robertson (AU)

• Transplant without borders: Collaborative solutions for global kidney care
  4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • The global interdependence of health and the burden of kidney disease as a pressing public health priority

    Benita Padilla (PH)
  • Transplant knowledge and skills transfer: the role of collaborative partnerships in reducing disparities in kidney disease-related morbidity and mortality

    Shyam Bihari Bansal (IN)
  • Overcoming the challenges in achieving equity in global access to kidney transplantation

    Beatriz Domínguez-Gil (ES)
  • Sustainable and scalable models for establishing kidney transplant programs in resource-limited contexts

    Elmi Muller (ZA)

• Pediatric treatments on the Horizon
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.4 Concurrent
  • Partial heart transplant in children

    Taufiek Konrad Rajab (US)
  • Regulatory cell therapy for solid organ transplantation

    Fadi Issa (GB)

• Optimizing and utilizing old organ donors
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Setting the stage: Older organs - clinical need, ethical and economic considerations

    Krista Lentine (US)
  • Objective quality criteria of old organs

    Varvara Kirchner (US)

• The journey to clinical xenotransplantation
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Development of the gene edited pigs to get us to the clinic

    Peter Cowan (AU)
  • Avoiding dysregulation of the complement and coagulation-anticoagulation systems?

    Jo Tector (US)
  • The road to regulatory approval for clinical transplantation

    Muhammad Mohiuddin (US)

• 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 C4.8 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 C4.7 Concurrent
  • The long-term transplant journey: What patients experience after discharge

    Liz Schick (CH)
  • Movement when endurance is limited: Finding confidence through everyday activity

    Geoff Jessup (AU)
  • Clinical perspective: Encouraging safe physical activity after transplant

    Geoffrey McCaughan (AU)
  • 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), Feroz Aziz (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)

• 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)
  • Direct and indirect allorecognition – more alike than we thought?

    Gavin Pettigrew (GB)

• TTS-ISN: 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)

• Multidisciplinary: Leveraging shared infrastructure for hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation
  4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C4.4 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)

• Approaching and navigating difficult conversations with transplant patients
  4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Conversations around kidney transplant evaluation: Who and how to communicate non-eligibility for transplant

    Rhiannon Reed (US)
  • Palliative care post-transplant: Throughout patient journey and symptom management

    Kathryn Ducharlet (AU)
  • Navigating through organ failure to transplant: Liver transplant

    Suk Kyun Hong (KR)
  • Navigating conversations on cardiac mechanical support therapy to heart transplant

    Shunichi Nakagawa (US)

• Metabolic dysfunction and liver transplantation
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Getting the right patients to transplant: Patient selection, pre-transplant evaluation, and organ allocation in MAFLD

    Kymberly Watt (US)
  • Optimising outcomes in patients with obesity after transplant: lifestyle modification, bariatric surgery or lifelong GLP1 therapy?

    Marina Berenguer (ES)

• Key components of an ideal high volume transplant program setup: A global surgical perspective
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room TBD Concurrent
  • The European perspective

    Jiri Fronek (CZ)
  • The Oceania perspective

    Henry Pleass (AU)
  • Panel discussion

    Discussion Period (AU)

• From allorecognition to allocation: Moving toward more individualized kidney transplant matching
  9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room TBD Concurrent
  • Importance of HLA beyond the A/B/DR

    Anat Tambur (US)
  • Beyond HLA: Expanding the immunologic landscape

    Toby Coates (AU)
  • Precision risk stratification

    Wai Lim (AU)

• Transplantation beyond traditional publications
  9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderators: Stefan Tullius (US), Macey L. Levan (US)

  • Special features: A reality check on opportunities and challenges

    Fadi Issa (GB)
  • Editorial fellowships: A great opportunity to be involved

    Melanie Wyld (AU)
  • Topic highlights – Article series

    Camille N. Kotton (US)
  • Panel discussion

    Discussion Period (AU)

• Expanding horizons in pancreas transplantation: Outcomes, techniques, and program development
  10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderators: Pablo Uva (AR), Toby Coates (AU)

  • Current status of pancreas transplantation: Activity and outcomes around the world

    Angelika C. Gruessner (US)
  • Donation after circulatory death (DCD) in pancreas transplantation: Logistics, use of normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) and outcomes

    Joana Ferrer (ES)

• CMV and BK virus in transplant recipients: Pearls from the guidelines and emerging frontiers
  8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room C4.8 Concurrent
  Moderators: Wanessa T. Clemente (BR), Jeremy Chapman (AU)

  • Pearls from the BK guidelines

    Nassim Kamar (FR)
  • Pearls from the CMV guidelines

    Camille N. Kotton (US)
  • Beyond the guidelines- new developments and future directions: BK

    Germaine Wong (AU)
  • Beyond the guidelines - new developments and future directions: CMV

    Atul Humar (CA)
  • Panel discussion: challenging BK case, challenging CMV case

    Discussion Period (AU)

• Pediatric cholestatic liver disease around the world
  1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 Concurrent
  Moderator: Gabriel E. Gondolesi (US)

  • Biliary atresia - whats happening in Latin America. Access to KPE and transplantation

    Monserrat Arreola Gutierrez (MX)
  • Progressive familiar intrahepatic cholestasis differences around the world and the role of medical vs. surgical therapy

    Mohamed Rela (IN)
  • Primary sclerosing cholangiotis in children and adolescent

    Michael Stormon (AU)

• Organ donation following MAID (VAD/euthanasia)
  1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room TBD Concurrent
  Moderator: Helen Opdam (AU)

  • Panelist representing Canada

    Matthew Weiss (CA)
  • Panelist representing Australia

    Wade Stedman (AU)