Published for Members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Vol. XV, No. 2 Winter 2010 President’s Letter 4 Member News 6 Regulatory & Reimbursement 8 Legislative Report 11 NLDAC 15 State of the Art Winter Symposium 16 3rd Annual Surgical Fellows Symposium 20 Fellows Match Program 22 American Transplant Congress 2010 23 ASTS Research Awards 24 ASTS Job Board 26 Corporate Support 27 Foundation 28 Calendar 29 New Members 31 www.asts.org ASTS Council May 2009–May 2010 PRESIDENT TREASURER Charles M. Miller, MD (2011) Robert M. Merion, MD (2010) Alan N. Langnas, DO (2012) Cleveland Clinic Foundation University of Michigan University of Nebraska Medical Center 9500 Euclid Avenue, Mail Code A-110 2922 Taubman Center PO Box 983280 Cleveland, OH 44195 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 600 South 42nd Street Phone: 216 445.2381 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5331 Omaha, NE 68198-3280 Fax: 216 444.9375 Phone: 734 936.7336 Phone: 402 559.8390 Email: [email protected] Fax: 734 763.3187 Fax: 402.559.3434 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Peter G. Stock, MD, PhD (2011) University of California San Francisco PRESIDENT-ELECT COUNCILORS-AT-LARGE Dept. of Surgery, Rm M-884 Michael M. Abecassis, MD, MBA (2010) Richard B. Freeman, Jr., MD (2010) 505 Parnassus Avenue Northwestern University Tufts University School of Medicine San Francisco, CA 94143-0780 Division of Transplantation New England Medical Center Phone: 415 353.1551 675 North St. Clair Street, #17-200 Department of Surgery Fax: 415 353.8974 Chicago, IL 60611 750 Washington Street, Box 40 Email: [email protected] Phone: 312 695.0359 Boston, MA 02111 Fax: 312 695.9194 Phone: 617 636.5592 R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD (2012) Email: [email protected] Fax: 617 636.8228 The Methodist Hospital Email: [email protected] Dept. of Surgery IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT 6550 Fannin Street, SM 1661 John P. Roberts, MD (2010) Dixon B. Kaufman, MD, PhD (2010) Houston, TX 77030 University of California San Francisco Northwestern University Medical School Phone: 713 441.6936 Division of Transplantation Department of Surgery Fax: 713 793.7151 505 Parnassus Avenue Division of Transplantation Email: [email protected] Box 0780, Room M896 675 North St. Clair Street San Francisco, CA 94143-0780 Galter Pavilion Suite 17-200 Robert S. Higgins, MD, MSHA (2012) Phone: 415 353.1888 Chicago, IL 60611 Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Fax: 415 353.8709 Phone: 312 695.0257 Medical Center Email: [email protected] Fax: 312 695.9194 Dept. of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Email: [email protected] 1725 W. Harrison Street, Suite 1156 PAST PRESIDENT Chicago, IL 60612 Goran B. Klintmalm, MD, PhD (2010) Timothy L. Pruett, MD (2010) Phone: 312 942.6373 Baylor Regional Transplant Institute University of Minnesota Fax: 312 563.4700 3500 Gaston Avenue Department of Surgery Email: [email protected] Dallas, TX 75246 420 Delaware Street SE Phone: 214 820.2050 MMC 195 Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS (2012) Fax: 214 820.4527 Minneapolis, MN 55455 Lahey Clinic Medical Center Email: [email protected] Phone: 612 626.7282 Dept. of Transplantation Fax: 612 624.7168 41 Mall Road, 4 West SECRETARY Email: [email protected] Burlington, MA 01805 Kim M. Olthoff, MD (2011) Phone: 781 744.2500 University of Pennsylvania Hospital James D. Eason, MD (2011) Fax: 781 744.5743 Department of Surgery Methodist University Hospital Email: [email protected] 3400 Spruce Street, 2 Dulles University of Tennessee Philadelphia, PA 19104 Department of Surgery NATIONAL OFFICE Phone: 215 662.6136 Transplant Inst., 1265 Union Avenue, 10 Katrina Crist, MBA Fax: 215 662.2244 Service, S1011 Executive Director Email: [email protected] Memphis, TN 38104-3499 2461 South Clark Street, Suite 640 Phone: 901 516.7070 Arlington, VA 22202 Fax: 901 516.2036 Phone: 703 414.7870 Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 414.7874 Email: [email protected] 2 Chimera Winter 2010 www.asts.org Editor’s Letter 5th Anniversary Published for Members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Published for Members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Published for Members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 35th Anniversary Vol. XIV, No. 3 Spring 2009 Vol. XV, No. 1 Summer 2009 Vol. XV, No. 2 Winter 2010 Presidents Letter 4 President’s Letter 4 President’s Letter 4 Member News 6 Member News 6 Member News 6 Regulatory & Regulatory & Legislative Report 8 Reimbursement 8 Reimbursement 8 Regulatory & Legislative Report 10 Legislative Report 11 Reimbursement 10 OPTN/UNOS Corner 12 NLDAC 15 OPTN/UNOS Corner 12 35th Anniversary State of the Art LYFT 13 of ASTS 14 Winter Symposium 16 NLDAC 15 Historian Report 18 3rd Annual Surgical State of the Art American Transplant Fellows Symposium 20 Winter Symposium 16 Congress 2009 Fellows Match American Transplant Winter Symposium 19 Program 22 Congress 2009 22 Beyond the Award 23 American Transplant Video Library 25 Corporate Support 27 Congress 2010 23 Job Board 27 Foundation 28 ASTS Research Corporate Support 28 Awards 24 Calendar 29 Foundation 29 ASTS Job Board 26 New Members 31 Calendar 30 Corporate Support 27 New Members 31 Foundation 28 Calendar 29 New Members 31 www.asts.org www.asts.org www.asts.org elcome back to another edi- Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Of course, in addition to all that’s been tion of the Chimera! The it continues to be a rousing success. mentioned above, this edition of the Wdays are growing short as we This symposium is always a highlight Chimera is filled with all sorts of other head into another winter. One bright for our fellows. Besides the significant useful and interesting news, in all of spot of this cold and snowy season (at educational value, it provides fel- the usual columns and regular features. least for those of us above the Mason lows with a first chance to connect Read it and enjoy! Dixon line) is always the ASTS State of with their peers and to form lifelong the Art Winter Symposium. This year friendships and professional associa- See you in Fort Lauderdale! we’ll be moving over to the east coast of tions. I still remember my symposium Florida, in Fort Lauderdale, as we con- from 15 years ago. Check out the Best Regards, sider “The Cutting Edge of Transplant story and photos on page 20. James Whiting, MD Surgery.” As always, the meeting will Chair, Communications Committee provide an intimate, more relaxed and As always, the Chimera is chock full family friendly atmosphere, something of news on the legislative and regula- Chantay Parks Moye a little different from the American tory front. Please read this important Managing Editor Transplant Congress. This year’s pro- information closely starting on page [email protected] gram promises to be interesting and fun! 8. To be an effective advocacy group For a full description, turn to page 16 in for you and our patients, we need an Karol A. Keane this edition. informed and involved membership. Design & Communications, Inc. We want to hear your opinions. In www.keanedesign.org While we’re considering warm winter addition to following legislative news retreats, this year’s ASTS Annual Fel- in the Chimera, signing up for the lows Symposium took place in Novem- ASTS RSS feeds from the website ber in Scottsdale, Arizona. This was is another great way of staying in- the third year of ASTS sponsorship of formed. this program with funding from Astellas, About the Cover The cover photograph was taken at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). The image is instrumentation for lapa- roscopic donor nephrectomy / liver resection. ASTS member, Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD was the performing surgeon. The pa- tient had congenital cysts on the liver. ASTS is grateful to Dr. Chavin for the invitation to join the transplant team at MUSC in the operating room. ASTS strives to provide members with real surgical photographs that depict what you do. If you have a photograph that would like displayed on the cover of the Chimera, please email it along with a brief description to Chantay Parks Moye at [email protected]. www.asts.org Chimera Winter 2010 3 President’s Letter Greetings from your ASTS President! and to encourage surgically oriented, thematically structured topics. After you’ve been doing anything for a decade, it’s a good time to pause for The ASTS State-of-the-Art Winter reflection. Ten years is a nice round Symposium has succeeded beyond our number, and for some reason it con- expectations! While attendance has veys the impression of being weightier increased every year, it still has that than nine or eleven. This year, the special feel to it. It’s a unique opportu- American Society of Transplant nity to catch up with colleagues from Surgeons celebrates a decade of not around the country and advance your one, but three important initiatives: knowledge in a discrete area (this year’s The American Journal of Transplantation theme is The Cutting Edge of Transplant (AJT), the ASTS State-of-the-Art Surgery), with new and exciting advanc- Winter Symposium, and the American es presented in a relaxed environment. Transplant Congress (ATC). Each is In addition to its appeal to transplant focused on our educational and re- surgeons, the program includes offerings search mission to advance the field of attractive to other clinicians, research- transplantation, and each has enjoyed ers, allied health professionals, advanced remarkable success. Robert M. Merion, MD transplant providers, and trainees. ASTS President And, as the meeting has expanded, When the AJT was conceived in the we’ve added special seminars, forums, late 1990s as a joint venture of the 2010.