Program – ASRT 5^th Biennial Meeting 2016

Course Directors:Co-ChairsBohdan Pomahac, MDDirector, Plastic Surgery Transplantation Medical Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital  Burn Center Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Damon Cooney, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive  Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine President W.P. Andrew Lee, MD The Milton T. Edgerton, MD, Professor Chair, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive  Surgery Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Thursday, November 3, 2016
9:45am – 10:30am	VCA Journal Editorial Board Meeting
11:00am – 12:00pm	ASRT Council Meeting
PLENARY SESSION I:
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm	Opening Ceremony
	W.P. Andrew Lee, MD, FACS, ASRT President
	Damon Cooney, MD, PhD, Program Co-Chair
	Bohdan Pomahac, MD, Program Co-Chair
12:45pm – 2:45pm	Genital Reproductive Transplantation Uterus/Penile
	Moderator: Stefan Tullius, MD
	Clinical
	Amir Zarrabi, MD; University of Stellenbosch Johannesburg
	Mats Brännström, MD; University of Gothenburg
	Andreas Tzakis, MD; Cleveland Clinic
	Curt Cetrulo, MD; MGH
	Ethical
	Jeffrey Kahn, MD; Johns Hopkins
	Amir Zarrabi, MD; University of Stellenbosch Johannesburg
2:45pm – 3:15pm	Break with Exhibitors
3:15pm – 5:45pm	Speed Round: Update of all Active International Centers
	Moderator: Damon Cooney, MD

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Cleveland (Frank Papay, MD)	Wilford Hall (Dmitry Tuder, MD)
MGH (Curtis Cetrulo, MD)	Munich (Christof Hoehnke, MD)
BWH (Bohdan Pomahac, MD)	Turkey (Omer Ozkan, MD)
Lyon (Palmina Petruzzo, MD)	Maryland (Rolf Barth, MD)
Paris (Laurent Lantieri, MD)	NYU (Ed Rodriguez, MD, DDS)
Wroclaw (Jerzy Jablecki, MD)	University of Stellenbosch Johannesburg
Johns Hopkins (Jaimie Shores, MD)	(Amir Zarrabi, MD)
Louisville (Christina Kaufman, PhD)	University of Gothenburg
UCLA (Kodi Azari, MD)	(Prof. Mats Brännström)
Duke (Linda Cendales, MD)	Finland (Patrik Lassus, MD)
UPenn (L. Scott Levin, MD)	Taiwan (Yu Ren Kuo, MD)
6:30pm – 8:00pm	Wine and Cheese Reception with Exhibitors

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Friday, November 4, 2016
PLENARY SESSION II:
7:00am – 7:50am	UNOS/OPTN/HRSA Oversight
	Moderator: Sue McDiarmid, MD
	Upcoming UNOS Reporting Requirements for Programs
	Sue McDiarmid, MD
	HRSA and VCA: Moving from Experimentation to Standard of Care
	Melissa Greenwald, MD
7:50am – 8:45am	Immune Tolerance Network
	Phil Bernstein, MD
8:45am – 9:45am	Keynote Address: Megan Sykes, MD
	“Durable Mixed Chimerism – An Achievable Goal?”
9:45am – 10:15am	Break with Exhibitors
PLENARY SESSION III:
10:15am – 12:15pm	Immunology/Immunotherapy
	Recent Advancements in Transplantation
	Anil Chandraker, MD, AST President
	Panel: Immunotherapy Protocols Currently in Use
	Panelist; Gerald Brandacher, MD; Emmanuel Morelon, MD; Leo
	Riella, MD; Christina Kaufman, PhD
	Discussion of Immune Monitoring
	Leo Riella, MD; Giorgio Raimondi, MD
12:15pm – 1:00pm	Lunch with Exhibitors
12:15pm – 1:00pm	Business Meeting (ASRT Members Only)
PLENARY SESSION IV:
1:00pm – 2:00pm	New Ways to Approach VCA
	Wendy Dean, MD; Simon Talbot, MD
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Break with Exhibitors
2:30pm – 4:00pm	Concurrent Interactive Workshops

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Therapists Forum

Chairs: Gayle Severance; Ashley Emrich

Unique Challenges Specific to the Pediatric Recipient – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Presenters: Deb Humpl, Todd Levy, Michelle Hsia, Kelly Ferry

Therapy Following Trans-Humeral UE Transplantation – The Johns Hopkins Experience

Presenter: Heather Meguire

Panel: Hand Transplant Candidate Selection and Rehabilitation Challenges

Panelists: Gayle Severance; Ashley Emrich

Transplant Coordinators Forum

Chairs: Kate Knott, NP; Lisa Quinn

Brief Updates from Participating Centers

John Hopkins Hospital (Kate Knott)

Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston (Lisa Quinn)

University of Michigan (Mable Glass, RN)

UCLA (Erin Core)

BWH's Experience with Insurance Coverage of Post-Transplant Medications & Long Term Follow up Care

Presenter: Lisa Quinn

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2:30pm – 4:00pm	Free Paper Session: Clinical VCA & General
4:00pm – 4:30pm	Break with Exhibitors
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Panel: The Barriers and Opportunities in VCA
	Moderator: Sue McDiarmid, MD
	OPO Challenges
	Rich Luskin
	Principles of Responsible Surgical Innovation
	Nancy Ascher, MD
5:30pm – 6:00pm	Best Paper Session

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Saturday, November 5, 2016
7:00am - 8:15am	Transplant Psychiatrists/Psychologists Forum
	Chair: Elisa Moreno, MD
	Update on Second International Chauvet Conference 2016: Psychiatric issues in VCA
	Palmina Petruzzo, MD
	Ethical Considerations in Face Transplantation
	Elisa Moreno, MD
	Psychiatric issues in Hand versus Face Transplantation
	Christian Seulin, MD

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7:00am – 8:15am	Infectious Disease Task Force– VCA vs. Other Organ Transplants
	Francisco Marty, MD; Cameron Wolfe, MD
7:00am – 8:15am	Paper Session: Basic Science & General
8:15am – 8:30am	Break with Exhibitors
8:30am – 9:45am	Panel: Funding Mechanisms; Paying for the Future of VCA
	Panelists: Steven McCabe, MD (Canada); W. P. Andrew Lee, MD (USA);
	E. Morelon, MD (France); H. Giele, MD (U.K.)
9:45am – 10:45am	Panel: Rejection: Classification, Mechanisms, and Markers
	Panelists: Christina Kaufman, PhD; Jean Kanitakis, MD; George Murphy, MD
10:45am– 11:15am	Break with Exhibitors
11:15am – 12:00pm	Presidential Address: W.P. Andrew Lee, MD, FACS
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch Break
PLENARY SESSION V:
1:00pm – 2:00pm	Melina Nakos Symposium: Susan Mackinnon, MD
	Nerve Research
	Moderator: Thomas Tung, MD
2:00pm – 3:00pm	VCA Controversies
	Moderators: Jaimie Shores, MD; Kodi Azari, MD
	Living related
	Bohdan Pomahac, MD
	Combined SOT/VCA Transplantation
	Jesse Selber, MD
	Pediatric Transplantation
	Ronald Zuker, MD; L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS
3:00pm – 3:15pm	Break with Exhibitors
3:15PM – 4:00PM	Unexpected Common Ground: Pediatric Liver Transplant and VCA
	Sue McDiarmid, MD