Schedule at a Glance

Attend Schedule at a Glance

Saturday, June 1
Sunday, June 2
Monday, June 3
Tuesday, June 4
Wednesday, June 5

1:00 PM - 3:45 PM

In-Depth Symposia

Basic Science: New Perspectives on Innate Immunity in Transplantation
Heart: Heart Transplantation in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD): Challenges & Opportunities!!
Infectious Disease: Respiratory Viruses in Transplantation: What every transplant provider needs to know
Kidney: Challenges and Strategies for Keeping Elderly Patients on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist and Getting Transplanted
Liver: Sex, Drugs, & Pop Culture - Liver Transplant & Young Adulthood
Pediatric: Advances in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Tribute to Richard Fine
Pharmacy: New and controversial topics in precision pharmacotherapy for immunosuppression
Professional Development: Climbing the ladder of success as a transplant professional: Defining, building and sustaining a career in academics
Translational: Engineered organs and Cells in Transplantation

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Break

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

5:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Opens

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Break

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM

Product Theaters

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM

Women's Networking Event

7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Closes

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

IMPACT Sessions

Clinical: GLP1 agonists- A formidable tool in the wild goose chase of ideal BMI in potential Living Donor candidates?
Infectious Disease: How do you handle infection in the immunocompromised transplant patient who becomes even more immunocompromised?
Kidney: Examining the role of Nk cells in antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) and microvascular inflammation (MVI) from a clinical perspective
Kidney: Facilitating KPD Education as Part of Every Living Donor and Recipient Evaluation.
Liver: LDLT Training and Certification - Is It Time To Move Forward?
Pancreas: Alloislet Cell Transplant: Where do we go from here?
Pediatric: Improving organ utilization in Pediatric Transplantation - a joint symposium of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) and ATC
Psychosocial & Ethics: Nihil de nobis, sine nobis (Nothing About Us, Without Us): Should the Transplant Candidate Participate in the Selection Committee Meeting?
Public Policy: Is it time to allow financial incentives for living organ donation?
Translational: Cells on a diet! The impact of diet on the alloimmune response
Translational: Gray Matters: The Decedent Model Is the Favored Pathway to Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials Over More Non-Human Primate Studies

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Break

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Plenary Session 1

9:15 AM

Exhibit Hall Opens

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Product Theaters

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Break

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

AST Presidential Address and Awards

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Thomas E. Starzl State-of-the-Art Lecture: What Organ Perfusion Will Do for Transplantation? Peter Friend, MD - Learn More

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

AJT Awards

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Meet-the-Experts Sessions and Satellite Symposia

Heart: Swinging the Pendulum: Oncological perspectives Pre and Post Heart Transplant
Infectious Disease: Nuts and bolts of starting HIV to HIV transplantation in your center
Liver: It takes a Team: The Rise of Multidisciplinary Clinics in Liver Transplantation
Psychosocial and Ethics: The Case for Considering Cannabis Use in Solid Organ Transplant
Women's Health: Management of Complex Pregnancies in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Break

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

IMPACT Sessions

Advanced Practice Provider: Maximizing Efficiency and Collaboration: The Integral Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Organ Procurement and Transplant Surgery
Clinical: Generative AI in Transplantation
HLA: Accepting the unacceptable: Transplanting across selected HLA antibodies
Infectious Disease: CMV prevention strategies in high-risk SOT: Universal Prophylaxis vs Pre-Emptive Approaches
Kidney: Organ offers acceptance/refusal practices in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Liver: Liver Transplant Oncology: recent advances and indications for transplantation.
Pediatric: Overcoming roadblocks to health equity in pediatric transplant
Pharmacy: Shedding light on GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors in transplant practice
Psychosocial and Ethics: Reducing health disparities by addressing structural racism and providing culturally and religiously appropriate transplant care
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: Leveraging the NASEM Report on Transplant Equity to Improve OPO Performance by Applying Healthcare Quality Improvement Measurement and Strategies
Translational: Exploring the immune impact of frailty and aging on solid organ transplant recipients

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Product Theaters

3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Closes

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

IMPACT Sessions

Liver: Controversial Living Liver Donors: Best Approaches to Unique Scenarios

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Break

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

IMPACT Sessions

Kidney: Transplant Nephrology Workforce Shortage: Getting Future Ready

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

ASTS Town Hall

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

IMPACT Sessions

Clinical: Scalpel or pills- options for living donor candidates with obesity and metabolic syndrome?
Infectious Disease: To TID Infinity and Beyond: Transplant ID as a Metric of Excellence in Your Transplant Center!
Kidney: Implementation barriers to addressing medication non-adherence in kidney transplantation: Taking the next step
Liver: Resource Utilization and Programmatic Considerations in the Era of Machine Perfusion
Lung: Pulmonary AMR Consensus 2024: A novel strategy and a new path forward
Pancreas: Why are so many Donor Pancreata Non-Utilized?
Pediatric: Your Transplant was a Success, Now What? Navigating Long Term Functional Challenges after Pediatric Organ Transplantation
Psychosocial & Ethics: The Value of Implementation Science for Improving Health: Best Practices to Advance Transplantation
Psychosocial & Ethics: When it rains, look for rainbows: How to build inclusive solid organ transplant programs and systems for LGBTQ+ donors and recipients
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: Public Policy Advocacy 101: The What, Why and How to Influence Change in Transplantation
Translational: Technological innovation in transplant research: an overview of novel translational approaches to study and modulate alloimmunity

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Break

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Plenary Session 2

9:15 AM

Exhibit Hall Opens

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Product Theaters

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

ASTS Presidential Address, Pioneer Award, and Grants Recognition

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Special Session: The Courage to Succeed: Lessons from 70 Years of Living Donor Transplants

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Meet-the-Experts Sessions and Satellite Symposia

Clinical: Therapeutic options to treat post-transplantation diabetes in the absence of targeted clinical evidence.
Kidney: BK Virus Nephropathy: Distinguishing Direct Virus Effects from T Cell Mediated Rejection, a Collaborative Approach Between Nephrologists and Pathologists
Professional Development: Navigating The Barriers: Empowering Women With Careers in Transplantation
Psychosocial and Ethics: Helping and protecting living donors to the fullest extent: a practical guide for the transplant team

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Break

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

IMPACT Session

All Topics: Moving the needle: Actionable steps towards transplant equity
Heart: What Do Valves Got to Do with It?
HLA: Expanding Virtual HLA Crossmatch for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation - Is it time?
Infectious Disease: Fungal Infections and Novel Antifungals in Transplantation
Kidney: Novel Therapeutic Modalities in the Management of Hyperglycemia in a Kidney Transplant Recipient
Liver: Multiorgan Transplant: Does my patient actually need a liver with their kidney, heart or lung transplant?
Pediatric: Your story isn't over yet: Recurrent Disease in Pediatric Transplantation
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: Policies and Interventions Aimed at Decreasing Disparities in Kidney Transplantation for Under Represented Minorities
Small Bowel: Are we improving management of immunological issues in intestinal transplantation?
Translational: Molecular profiling in Xenotransplant procedures to gain insights into Physiology and Immune status
Translational: Transcriptomic approach to rejection and immune quiescence

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Product Theaters

3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Closes

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

IMPACT Sessions

Kidney: Navigating The Complexities and Challenges in Recurrent FSGS, through a Collaborative Effort for Risk Assessment and Management.

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Break

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

IMPACT Sessions

Infectious Disease: To B or not to B: Transplanting organs from Hepatitis B NAT-positive donors

5:45 PM - 7:30 PM

AST Town Hall

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

IMPACT Sessions

Infectious Disease: EBV DNAemia in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients: “Back to the future”.
Infectious Disease: For the Health of it: Donor Screening for Seasonal and Geographically Limited Infectious Diseases
Kidney: Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI), Race, Genetics and Clinical Practice
Liver: Non-alcohol substance use pre- and post-liver transplant: rethinking policies and practices in a new era
Pharmacy: An update from TPAC (Transplant Pharmacy Adherence Consortium) on Transplant Adherence sharing published experiences, lessons learned and an update from the AST Controversy Conference.
Professional Development: Leadership Strategies: Negotiation
Psychosocial and Ethics: Health Psychology Consultative Assessment, Therapeutic Intervention and Treatment Pre- and Post-Transplant
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: Moving Beyond the Waiting List: Capturing the True Gaps in Access for Transplantation:An integrative approach
Translational: Integration of Big Data from Transplant Registries and Histocompatibility Laboratories for Multicenter Studies
Translational: The Movers and The Shakers: Research from Bench-to-Bedside and Bedside-to-Bench
Women's Health: Give me a break! Evaluation and treatment of post-transplant osteoporosis

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Break

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Plenary Session 3

9:15 AM

Exhibit Hall Opens

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Product Theaters

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

Liver: Pushing the boundaries of liver transplantation: Transplantation after systemic and immunotherapy for HCC.

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Robotic Surgery in Transplantation: Conversations with the Experts, Session #1

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Paul I Terasaki State-of-the-Art Lecture: A Fireside Chat with the Honorable Alex M. Azar II - Learn More

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Special Session: OPTN Modernization Effort

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Break

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Meet-the-Experts Sessions and Satellite Symposia

All Topics: Looking under the hood - From Idea to high impact AJT publication
Infectious Disease: C'est Tres Difficile: C. difficile in SOT!
Pancreas: Art of Human Islet Isolation
Pediatric: The birds and the bees post-Transplant
Public Policy: Anticipating the Need- Expanding Living Donor Programs through Donor Vouchers and Advanced Donation

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Break

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

IMPACT Sessions

Clinical: Getting Techy - the Use of Advanced Technology and Machine Learning in Post Transplant Care
Infectious Disease: Top Papers in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Kidney: Immunosuppression Minimization in Transplant: Thinking Beyond Rejection Risk
Kidney: Out of Sequence Allocation: Time for Policy Change?
Liver: Implementation NRP Capabilities, Resources and Processes by an OPO
Lung: Getting off the Gold Standard in Lung Transplantation
Pediatric: Developing and testing health system interventions to improve transplant outcomes
Psychosocial and Ethics: "I treat all patients the same": Implicit Bias and the Impact on Equity and Disparities in Transplant
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: How can we close the Gap for Gender and Race Disparities in Solid Organ Transplantation?
Small Bowel: Should we do protocol biopsies after intestinal transplantation
Translational: HAL9000: How AI is changing transplant diagnostics
Translational: How Can Epigenetics Change Living Donor Transplantation ?

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Robotic Surgery in Transplantation: Conversations with the Experts, Session #2

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Product Theaters

3:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Closes

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

Optimizing DCD Liver Transplant: NRP/Machine perfusion v. Conventional approach

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Break

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

IMPACT Sessions

Basic Science: Novel approaches and mechanisms of T cell mediated Immune Regulation
Heart: Take A Chance on Me: When a DT VAD becomes a bridge to transplant: Consideration for high-risk donors, Xenotransplantation and managing LVAD complications
Infectious Disease: Artificial Intelligence in Transplant Infectious Disease: The Wave of the Future
Intestine: Whatever happened to Pediatric Intestine Transplantation?
Kidney: Expanding Horizons: Reassessing Living Kidney Donor Acceptance Criteria to Bridge the Shortage Gap
Liver: Navigating Alcohol Use Disorder in Liver Transplantation: Contemporary Challenges and Approaches
Other: Are Robotic Living Donor Nephroctomy and Hepatectomy the Future?
Pancreas: Improving Access for Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation - Who's In, Who Needs Work
Pharmacy: Navigating Necessity: The Battle for Medication Access in Solid Organ Transplantation
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: Policies, Bylaws and COPs, Oh My! Keeping Up with Ever Changing Regulations in Donation and Transplantation
Translational: Newer techniques for improving clinical outcomes after islet cell auto-transplantation

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

IMPACT Sessions

Basic Science: Regulatory and inflammatory B cells: from bench to human translation
Clinical: Advances in transplant oncology- from immune checkpoint blockade to CAR-T therapies
Heart: Godzilla vs Kong: The Epic Battle Between Heart Transplant and LVAD!
Infectious Disease: Emerging landscape of COVID-19 in pediatric transplant recipients.
Liver: Expanding the Reach of Living Donor Liver Transplant: Current and Future Innovations
Pediatric: Pediatric Portal Venous Disease: Interventional and Surgical Management
Pharmacy: Updates in Management of Hepatorenal Syndrome
Psychosocial and Ethics: I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Profound! Philosophy for BIG Questions in Transplant
Public Policy and Regulatory Issues: A nephrology-focused, transplant-inclusive end-to-end value-based care payment model: Challenges and Opportunities
Translational: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Transplant Pathology

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Break

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Plenary Session 4

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Break

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Rapid Fire Abstracts

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

People's Choice Award

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

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American Transplant Congress 2024 Schedule

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Please note that all times listed are in Eastern Time and are subject to change.