Friday, January 21 2005

 
  ETHICS WORKSHOP    
    Balancing Donor Risk and Recipient Outcome    
    Case For Payments for Organs    
    Case Against Payments for Organs    
    Stewardship: Advocate for Greatest Good    
    Stewardship: Advocate for Your Patient    
    Surrogate Consent    
     
 
  WHEN IS LESS REALLY MORE?
 
    Antibody Preconditioning with Minimal Post-Transplant Immunosuppression    
    The Role of Antilymphocyte Antibody Induction in Liver Transplantation    
    Steroid Avoidance Protocols in Pancreas Transplantation    
    Homeostatic Repopulation of Lymphocytes Following Depletional Therapy    
    Successful Steroid Avoidance with Extended Daclizumab Induction    
    Impact of Immunosupression on T Regulatory Cells    
     
 
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 
    Clinical Transplantation: Unmet Needs and Opportunities for Science    
     
 
  WHEN SCIENCE & ART FAIL, WHAT THEN?
 
    Acute Rejection vs Recurrent Hepatitis C: A Diagnostic & Management Dilemma    
    Renal Insufficiency After Non-Renal Transplantation    
    Should Maintenance Immunosuppression Be Changed After a Diagnosis of Acute or Chronic Rejection?    
     
 
  STANDARDS FOR TRANSPLANTATION:
WHERE ARE WE & WHERE ARE WE GOING?
 
    HRSA / DOT    
    CMS    
    AOPO    
    UNOS    
    ASTS    
     
 
Saturday, January 22 2005
 

 
  NON-TRADITIONAL REJECTION:
TOO LITTLE ART OR TOO LITTLE SCIENCE?
   
    "Evil Humors" After Solid Organ Transplantation    
    The Armamentarium Against Acute Humoral Rejection    
    NK Cells: The Third Pathway of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy    
    A Humoral Contribution to Chronic Rejection    
    The Roll of TOR Inhibition in Chronic Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy    
     
 
  PLENARY SESSION OF SELECTED ABSTRACTS
 
    Poly (ADP) Ribose Synthetase Inhibition in a Rodent Model of Heart Transplantation    
    The Effect of Immunosppression on Renal Function & Graft Histology    
    Achieving Desensitization & Preventing Humoral Rejection in Positive    
    Immunosuppression-Related Complications in 26 Patients with Type-1 Diabetes    
    A Randomized Trial for Tacrolimus & Steroids vs Tacrolimus & Basiliximab    
    The Pittsburgh Tolerance Protocol & Intestinal Transplantation    
     
 
  IMMUNOLOGIC PROFILING: CAN SCIENCE GUIDE ART?
 
    Beyond Genomics, How Proteomics & Metabolomics can be Used to Monitor the Graft    
    Clinical Utility of the ELISPOT Assay in Organ Transplantation    
    A Real Time Portrait of Renal Allografts    
    BK Virema: A Barometer of Immunosppression    
     
 
Sunday, January 23 2005
 

 
  WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE?
 
    The Pathways Less Taken    
    Costimulation Blockade with LEA29Y    
    Therapeutic Targeting of the CD40/CD154 Pathway in Transplantation    
    Does Siplizumab/MEDI-507, an Anti-CD2 Monoclonal Antibody Have a Roll in Transplantation?    
    FK 778 & Other Fujisawa Development Initiatives    
    Polyclonal ATG (Thymoglobulin) - Novel Mechansims from Nature's Combination Therapy    
     
 
  NEW TWISTS ON OLD DRUGS
 
    CNI: Old Dog New Tricks    
    TOR Inhibition: The Good & The Bad    
     
 
  DEBATES
 
    Protocols vs Gestalt
 
       Argument for Protocols    
       Argument for Gestalt    
       Rebuttle    
       Rebuttle    
       Question & Answer Session  
     
 
    To Induce or To Not Induce
 
       Argument to Induce    
       Argument against Induction    
       Rebuttle    
       Rebuttle    
       Question & Answer Session  
     
 
    Innovate at What price? Minimization vs Graft Loss
 
       Argument for Graft Loss    
       Argument for Minimization    
       Rebuttle    
       Rebuttle    
       Question & Answer Session