AMERICAN TRANSPLANT CONGRESS Day-at-a-Glance, Saturday, June 2, 2018 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm Pre-Meeting Symposia Page 6 Transplant Center QAPI and Advanced Leadership: Navigating the Complex Saturday, June 2 Saturday, Regulatory Waters Room 6A Page 6 The Art and Science of Transplantation (In collaboration with NATCO and ITNS) Room 611-614 Page 7 Advanced Immunology Room 606-607 Page 8 Basic Science for the Clinician Room 602-604 Page 8 The Immunology of Kidney Transplantation Room 6B Page 9 Managing and Mitigating Transplant Infections Room 6C Page 10 Reaching Across the Diaphragm: Dilemmas Posed by Combined Heart and Liver Disease (Case- Focused Discussions) Room 615-617 Page 11 Immunobiology of ABMR – Bench to Bedside Room 608-609 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Opening Reception with Exhibits and Exhibits and Poster Session A Presenters in Attendance Hall 4EF 5 AMERICAN TRANSPLANT CONGRESS Program, Saturday, June 2, 2018 Pre-Meeting Symposia Advanced Transplant Leadership: Crisis 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm Management Moderators: Linda Ohler, MSN CCTC, FAAN FAST, George Washington University Hospital, Vienna, VA, Transplant Center QAPI and Advanced USA and Renee Bennett, BSN, Cleveland Clinic, Leadership: Navigating the Complex Cleveland, OH, USA Regulatory Waters 3:45 pm Crisis Management: Overall Concepts Room 6A Michael Abecassis, MD Northwestern Memorial Hospital Clinical Aspects of a Transplant Quality Program Chicago, IL, USA Moderators: Nahel Elias, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, 4:05 pm Crisis Planning and Management: How MA, USA and David Reich, MD, Drexel University, to Survive a Living Donor Death Philadelphia, PA, USA Christiano Quintini, MD Cleveland Clinic 1:00 pm Regulatory Quality: What you Need to Cleveland, OH, USA Know: Clinical Perspective Amit Mathur, MD, MS 4:25 pm Disaster Planning: Natural or Mayo Clinic Arizona Environmental Phoenix, AZ, USA Marion O’Rourke, RN, BSN, CCTC Jackson Health System 1:30 pm Program Approaching the Slippery Miami, FL, USA Slope Jesse Schold, PhD Advanced Transplant Leadership: Regulatory Cleveland Clinic Readiness Cleveland, OH, USA Moderators: Michelle James, MS, RN, CNS, CCTN, 2:00 pm How to See Your Way Clear Again University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA and Atushi Yoshida, MD Angie Korsun, RN, MSN, MPA, University of Iowa Henry Ford Hospital Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA Detroit, MI, USA 4:45 pm How to Manage a Survey That Is Not 2:30 pm Things that I Wish I had Known Going Well Gwen McNatt, RN, PhD, CNN, FNP-BC Atushi Yoshida, MD Northwestern Memorial Hospital Henry Ford Hospital Chicago, IL, USA Detroit, MI, USA 5:05 pm Balancing Strategy with Firefighting Luke Preczewski Amit Mathur, MD, MS Jackson Health System Mayo Clinic Arizona Miami, FL, USA Phoenix, AZ, USA 5:25 pm Discussion Jesse Schold, PhD Cleveland Clinic The Art and Science of Transplantation Cleveland, OH, USA (In collaboration with NATCO and ITNS) Marwan Abouljoud, MD Room 611-614 Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, MI, USA 3:15 pm Coffee Break 6 AMERICAN TRANSPLANT CONGRESS Program, Saturday, June 2, 2018 Assessment and Care of a Complex Patient 5:15 pm Long Term Impact of High Risk Population – Part I Donors On Graft and Recipient Moderators: Penny Keaney, RN, BSN, MA, CCTC, Outcomes The International Transplant Nurses Society, Christine Koval, MD, CCF Rockville, MD, USA Cleveland Clinic Foundation Saturday, June 2 Saturday, Cleveland, OH, USA 1:00 pm Obesity and Transplantation: Tackling a Weighty Issue 5:45 Discussion Dan Pieloch, MS, RD, CPHQ Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Advanced Immunology New Brunswick, NJ, USA Room 606-607 1:30 pm You Don’t Have to Like Them, But … Moderators: Xian Li, MD, PhD, Houston Methodist, Approaches to Caring for Difficult or Houston, TX, USA and Andrew Wells, PhD, Hostile Patients University of Pennsylvania CHOP, Philadelphia, PA, Cathy Crone, MD USA George Washington University School of Medicine / Inova Fairfax Hospital 1:00 pm Update On Innate Sensors, Falls Church, VA, USA Inflammasome Activation, and Inflammation 2:00 pm Assessing Patients for Skin Cancer - Igor Brodsky, AB, PhD Pre and Post-Transplant University of Pennsylvania Lindsay Smith, MSN Philadelphia, PA, USA Vanderbilt Transplant Center Nashville, TN, USA 1:30 pm Update On Regulated Cell Death- Mechanisms and Implications 2:30 pm Palliative Medicine and End of Life Andreas Linkermann, MD Care TU Dresden Tiffany Buda, MSN Dresden, Germany Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA 2:00 pm Update On Mechanisms of T Cell Dysfunction 3:00 pm Discussion Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD Brigham and Women´s Hospital 3:15 pm Coffee Break Boston, MA, USA Assessment and Care of a Complex Patient 2:30 pm Update On Non-Coding RNA in Population – Part II Regulation of Immune Responses Moderators: Mary Francois, DNP, RN-BC, CCTC, Sheri Krams, PhD UW Health/NATCO, Madison, WI, USA and Donna Stanford University Dickt, BS, NATCO, Oak Hill, VA, USA Stanford, CA, USA 3:45 pm A2 to B or Not to B 3:00 pm Coffee Break Keith Melancon, MD George Washington University 3:30 pm Update On Metabolic Control of Washington, DC, USA Immune Responses Ulf Beier, MD 4:15 pm Understanding C1Q Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania Bernice Coleman, PhD, RN Philadelphia, PA, USA Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA, USA 4:00 pm Update On Epigenetic Regulation of Immune Responses 4:45 pm Liver Tumor Staging Wayne Hancock, MD, PhD Johnny Hong, MD, FACS Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Medical College of Wisconsin Philadelphia, PA, USA Milwaukee, WI, USA 7 AMERICAN TRANSPLANT CONGRESS Program, Saturday, June 2, 2018 4:30 pm Update On Microbiota in Regulation of 4:00 pm Memory Cells and Their Impact on Immunity and Tolerance Allograft Tolerance Maria-Luisa Alegre, MD, PhD Mandy Ford, PhD University of Chicago Emory University Chicago, IL, USA Atlanta, GA, USA 5:00 pm Top 10 Immunology Papers of the Year 4:25 pm Therapeutic Approaches to Rejection Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD Enver Akalin, MD University of Maryland School of Albert Einstein College of Medicine Medicine Montefiore Medical Center Baltimore, MD, USA Bronx, NY, USA 4:50 pm Chronic Graft Rejection- Mechanisms Basic Science for the Clinician and Emerging Approaches Room 602-604 Roslyn Mannon, MD Moderators: Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD, Stanford University of Alabama at Birmingham University, Palo Alto, CA, USA and Alexander Birmingham, AL, USA Kroemer, Georgetown University Hospital, 5:15 pm Discussion Washington, DC, USA 1:00 pm An Overview of Immune Responses- The Immunology of Kidney Transplantation From Inception to Memory Peter Heeger, MD Room 6B Moderators: Jennifer Trofe-Clark, Pharm D, BCPS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA New York, NY, USA and Lisa Florence, MD, Swedish Medical Center, 1:25 pm The Innate Immune Response- Seattle, WA, USA Dangers, Sensors, and Cells 1:00 pm Immunobiology of Rejection for the Fadi Lakkis, MD Nephrologist University of Pittsburgh Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD Pittsburgh, PA, USA Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, 1:50 pm T Cells and Their Effector Mechanisms MA, USA in Rejection 1:20 pm Immunological Assessment of the Robert Fairchild, PhD Transplant Recipient Cleveland Clinic Kathryn Tinckam, MD, MMSc, FRCPC Cleveland, OH, USA University of Health Network 2:15 pm The Life Cycle of B Cells and Their Toronto, ON, Canada Roles in Alloimmunity 1:40 pm Immunosuppression Current Geetha Chalasani, MD Approaches and Future Strategies University of Pittsburgh Andrew Adams, MD, PhD Pittsburgh, PA, USA Emory University 2:40 pm Essential Mechanisms Regulating Atlanta, GA, USA Immune Responses 2:00 pm Beyond Conventional Pathology – New Qizhi Tang, PhD Approaches to Diagnose Rejection – University of California San Francisco Potential Use and Advantages San Francisco, CA, USA Paolo Cravedi 3:05 pm The “Holy Grail” of Transplantation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Tolerance New York, NY, USA Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD 2:20 pm Discussion Stanford University Palo Alto, CA, USA 3:30 pm Coffee Break 8 AMERICAN TRANSPLANT CONGRESS Program, Saturday, June 2, 2018 Issues in Recipient and Donor Evaluation 5:00 pm BK Virus – Prevention and Treatment Moderators: Deirdre Sawinski, MD, University of Dan Brennan, MD Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Laura Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Myhre, PharmD, BCPS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Baltimore, MD, USA USA 5:15 pm Discussion June 2 Saturday, 2:40 pm Evaluation of the Combined Organ Transplant Candidate Managing and Mitigating Transplant Richard Formica, MD Infections Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Room 6C 2:55 pm Evaluation of the Living Kidney Donor Candidates, Donors & Recipients: Diving into The David Landsberg, MD Deep End St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Moderators: Daniel Kaul, MD, University of Michigan, Columbia Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Deepali Kumar, MD, MSc, Vancouver, BC, Canada FRCP, University Health Network , Toronto, ON, 3:10 pm Panel Discussion Canada 3:20 pm – 3:45 pm Coffee Break 1:00 pm ID Evaluation of the Living Donor Cameron Wolfe, MD Avoidance and Management of Early and Late Duke University Medical Center Complications Durham, NC, USA Moderators: John Gill, MD, MS, University of British 1:20 pm HIV+ Candidate: Pre-Transplant Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Richard Evaluation and Post-Transplant Formica, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Management 3:45 pm Surgical Complications After Kidney Emily Blumberg, MD Transplantation for the Non-surgeon Perelman School of Medicine at the