ASRT PROGRAM 2024

VCA on the Cutting Edge: Pathways to Success

 

Thursday, November 21, 2024    Download Program

 

7:00 am – 5:00 pm                    Registration

7:00 am – 8:00 am                    Breakfast

7:00 am – 8:15am                     Board of Directors Meeting (closed)

 

8:15am – 8:45 am                     Opening Ceremony

                                                Welcome from Program Co-Chairs: Liza/Hari (10 min)

                                                Outgoing President Address: Bohdan Pomahac (20 min)

 

9:00 am – 10:00 am                   Nakos Symposium

                                                Samir Mardini

 

10:00 am – 11:00 am                 Plenary Session I - Rejecting Rejection

                                                Moderator: Curtis Cetrulo

     Chronic Rejection: Christina Kaufman

Panel debate: Mono or Quad Therapy? Gerald Brandacher vs Richard Formica

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm                Plenary Session II – Progress in VCA

                                                Moderator: Richard Formica

VCA outcomes assessment update: David Tulsky

Pipeline of Prospective Extremity/Face Transplants: Bruce Gelb

Reconstructive VCA updates

Abdominal wall: Kadiyala Ravindra

Larynx Tx: David Lott

 

Airway: Eric Genden

                                                       Eye and Face Tx – Update on novel neural recovery – Bruce Gelb

                                   

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm                  LUNCH with exhibitors

 

12:30 – 1:00 pm                        CDMRP Adress

 

1:00PM – 1:30 PM                    KEYNOTE: Sami Tuffaha

 

1:30pm – 2:30 pm                     Plenary Session III – Panel “Tips and Tricks” on starting/growing VCA

                                                Moderator: OPO (Alexandra Glazier)

                                                4-8 panelists, round-table discussion style

                                                Bruce Gelb; Scott Levin, Bohdan Pomahac, Samir Mardini, Frank Papay, Rick Redett, Alexandra Glazier

 

2:30-2:45PM                             Updates from ISVCA – Amer Hatem

 

2:45 – 3:15 pm                          Break

 

3:15 pm – 4:15pm                     Oral Abstract Session I

                                                Moderators: Hari

 

4:15 pm – 6:00 pm                    Plenary Session IV – Speed Updates (30 seconds per patient)

                                                Moderator: need moderator

 

6:00pm – 7:00 pm                     Cocktail Reception

 

Friday, November 22, 2024 – UTERUS FOCUSED

 

7:00 am – 5:00 pm                    Registration

 

7:00 am – 8:00 am                    Breakfast

                                               

                                                Concurrent Session – CONSORT Meeting

 

8:00 am – 9:40 am                    Plenary Session IV – How to get started/lessons learned

                                                Moderator: Amanda N. Fader

                                                Designing a program: clinical vs IRB: Kim Olthoff

                                                Registering with UNOS: Nicole Johnson – tentative yes

Funding: institutional support, grants, transition to commercial program: Giuliano Testa

                                                Recipient selection and prioritization of limited transplants: Nawar Latif

                                                Donor selection: Liza Johannesson

 

                            Concurrent Session – Tissue Engineering Techniques in VCA (10 min each)

Moderator: Siba Haykal

1 Cell Therapy in Transplantation – Nina Hadzimustafic

2 Innovation in Perfusion Techniques – Golnaz Karoubi

3 Biological Scaffolds – Cagdas Duru

Q&A

 

9:45 am – 10:45 am                   Oral Abstract Session II

                                                Moderator: Jessica Walters

 

10:50 am – 12:00 pm                 Speed Updates (Uterus Focused)

                                                Moderator: Liza Johannesson

                                                Grab list of uterus centers

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm                  LUNCH

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm                  Business Meeting Lunch (Members Only)

 

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm                    Incoming Presidential Address

                                                Christina Kaufman

 

1:30pm – 3:00 pm                     Plenary Session V – Future Directions in Uterus Transplantation

                                                Moderator: Giuliano Testa

IVF Best Practices/Pearls: Elliott Richards

Obstetrical considerations: Uma Perni

Future potential recipients: Kate O’Neill

Opportunities for research: Paige Porrett

Transgender: Loren Schechter

 

                                               

 

                                 Concurrent Session – Medical Students & Trainees Educational Forum

Round-table: Scott Levin, Bruce Gelb, Samir Mardini, Curtis Cetrulo (names not advertised on program)

 

3:00pm – 3:10 pm                     Break

 

3:10pm – 5:00 pm                     Plenary Session VI -Sustainability in Uterus Transplantation

                                                Moderator: Nawar Latif

                                                Tracking success and metrics: Kate O’Neill

                                                Update on CPT progress: Elliott Richards – tentative yes

Challenges of uterus transplant in the current political climate: Paige Porrett

                                                USUTC meeting: TBD

 

5:30pm – 7:00 pm                     Cocktail Reception