Program

Proposed Educational Objectives

  1. To develop understanding of the current knowledge about the pathophysiology of tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis of the kidney transplant.
  2. To develop understanding of the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the patient with chronic allograft nephropathy
  3. To learn current knowledge of the techniques that are required to undertake successful renal transplantation across antibody incompatibility due to ABO blood group or anti HLA antibodies
  4. To understand the current approaches to management and immunosuppression of patients receiving ABO-incompatible renal transplants.

Friday 15 August 2008

15.30 Plenary session 1
Chairs: Josette Eris, A. Vathsala
  P1 Epidemiology of chronic graft loss Ulf Meier-Kriesche
  P2 Pathology of chronic graft loss Brian Nankivell
  P3 It is all about the B Cells Lori West
  P4 It is all about dysregulated repair Tony Dorling
17.30 Break
18.00 Keynote speech
Chairs: Solomon Cohney, Matthew Jose
  Topic: Xenotransplantation will make this meeting redundant….but when?
Tony D’Apice
19.00 Welcome Dinner
21.00 Debate
  Topic: “Transplant results are too good for further investment of research dollars.”
  Chairs: Phil Halloran, Graeme Russ  
  For: Tim Waugh, Richard Allen  
  Against: Steve Chadban, Barbara Murphy  

Saturday 16 August 2008

08.30 Plenary session 2
Chairs: Ashley Irish, Nikky Isbel
  P5 State of the art review of ABO-i transplants Gunnar Tydén
  P6 Pathology of acute and chronic Ab-mediated rejection Robert Colvin
09.30 Concurrent Sessions
 

Session CAN
Chairs: Brian Hutchison, Randall Faull

  C1 Measure or guess the GFR A. Vathsala
  C2 Measure or guess the Pathology Paul Trevillian
  C3 Measure or guess the HLA Antibodies Brian Tait
  C4 Measure or guess the drugs Philip O’Connell
  Session ABO-i
Chairs: Rowan Walker, John Kanellis
  A1 The evolution of ABO-i transplantation in Japan Kazunari Tanabe
  A2 What does one need to perform ABO-i transplantation? Solomon Cohney
  A3 Jumping the PKE hurdles Richard Allen
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Plenary session 3: Science will provide answers
Chairs: David Gracey, Henry Pleass
  P7 Genomics has some of the answers Phil Halloran
  P8 Tolerance has some of the answers Barbara Murphy
12.15 Lunch
18.00 Practical workshops W1–W6:
  W1 Crossmatching highly sensitised patients / Desensitisation
  Chairs: Scott Campbell, Frank Ierino  
  Presenters: Mathew Jose, Toby Coates, Brian Tait, Steve Alexander  
  W2 ABO-i transplantation
  Chairs/Presenters: Shlomo Cohney, Ashley Irish  
  W3 Protocol Biopsy
  Chair: David Gracey  
  Presenters: Brian Nankivell, John Kanellis, Ranjit Nanra, Rowan Walker, David Goodman  
  W4 Treatment algorithms - CAN
  Chairs: A. Vathsala, Josette Eris  
  Presenters: TBC  
  Panel: TBC  
19.30 ‘Kick CAN in Cairns’ Dinner

Sunday 17th August

08.30 Plenary Session 4: Immunosuppression
Chairs: Geoff Kirkland, Steve McTaggart
 
  P9 Lessons from low dose strategies Henrik Ekberg
  P10 Lessons from anti-T cell strategies Steve Chadban
  P11 Lessons from anti-B cell strategies Mark Pescovitz
  P12 Lessons from Jak3 kinase strategies John O’Shea
10.30 Close of meeting

 

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Early April
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10–14 August
XXII International Congress of The Transplantation Society
15–17 August
‘Kick CAN in Cairns’ Satellite Meeting
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