COURSE: FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH IN TRANSPLANTATION
  Thursday - January 22, 2004    
    Why Do Clinical Research? | Nancy Ascher, MD    
    The NIH | Nancy Bridges    
    The Pharma Interaction - Pharma/Biotech View of Clinical Development | R.J. Tesi    
    Pharma-Supported, Investigator-Initiated Research Proposals | Rakesh Sindhi, MD    
    Clinical Research Funding: Where Do I Get the Money? | Ronald Ferguson    
    Regulatory Alphabet Soup | Stuart Knechtle, MD    
    Overview of Study Design | David Gerber    
    Clinical Trial Design: Lessions from 30 Years in the Vineyard of Transplantation | Barry Kahan, MD    
    The Selection of Endpoints | Arthur Matas    
    Registry-Based Data Analysis: Pros and Cons | Robert Merrion, MD    
         
  Friday - January 23, 2004    
    The Anatomy of Funding Proposals | J Richard Thistlethwaite    
    Publication / Patents / Rights | Mark Pescovitz    
    Successful Clinical Trial Administration | A. Osama Gaber, MD    
    Ethical Considerations of Transplantation Clinical Trials | Allan Kirk    
         
         
4TH ANNUAL STATE OF THE ART WINTER SYMPOSIUM:
SURGICAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPLANTATION
   
  Friday - January 23, 2004    
    Operative Techniques to Maximize Safety of the Live Kidney Donor | Lloyd Ratner, MD    
    Optimizing Donor Safety in Living Donor Liver Transplant | Michael Wachs    
    The Live Kidney Donor: Impact of Donor Nephrectomy on Long-Term Renal Function | Arthur Matas    
    The Live Liver Donor: Clinical Management and Outcomes |Elizabeth Pomfret    
    Gastric Bypass in Morbidly Obese Chronic Renal Failure and Transplant Patients | J Wesley Alexander    
    Hemostatic Challenges in Transplantation | Margaret Ragni    
    Transplantation in Patients with Splanchnic Thrombosis | Thomas Fishbein, MD    
    Liver Retransplantation: Ethics and Outcomes | R. Mark Ghobrial, MD    
    Pancreas Retransplantation: Options and Outcomes | Alan Farney, MD    
         
  Saturday - January 24, 2004    
    Lack of Access | Elvira Lang    
    The Recipient with Peripheral Vascular Disease | William Payne, MD    
    Laparoscopic Right Donor Nephrectomy | Andrew Posselt    
    Results of Retransplantation for Recurrent Hepatitis C | Sasan Royaie, MD    
    The "Injured" Organ | James Schulak, MD    
    Livers in a "Growing" Population | Kenneth Chavin, MD    
    Vascular Complications in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation | A. Osama Gaber, MD    
    Long-Term Graft Survival of Paediatric en bloc Kidneys | Oliver Thomusch    
    The Bronchial Anastomosis in Lung Transplantation | John Wain, MD    
    Biliary Complications After Living Donor Adult Liver Transplantation | Jennifer Verbesey    
    Unexpected Donor Circumstances at St. Elsewhere | Paul Kuo, MD    
    Funny-Looking Kidneys: Anatomic Variations in Kidney Transplantation | Ron Shapiro, MD    
    Cadaver Split Liver Transplants for 2 Adult Recipients | Abhinav Humar    
    Progress in the Use of Organs from Donation After Cardiac Death | Anthony D'Allesandro    
         
         
         
         

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