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Registration fees	Before October 18, 2024	On October 18, 2024
ILTS and SATA members (SCA, SOCCA)	$150	$180
Non-members	$200	$250
Reduced fee for non-physician attendees	$100	$120

2024 ILTS/SATA Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation
7:15 am – 7:50 am Registration
7:50 am – 8:00 am Welcome and Introduction
8:00 am – 8:55 am New Standards of Care for LT recipients and donors

Moderators: Marina Moguilevitch – Montefiore Medical Center, NY,USA
Natalie Smith – Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
8:00 am – 8:15 am Living donation for patients with porto-pulmonary hypertension
Andrew Gold – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

8:15 am – 8:30 am How do we treat hepato-pulmonary syndrome? 

Sergio Navarrete – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

8:30 am – 8:45am Standards for Donor Care worldwide

Varun Goyal – University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, US

8:45 am – 8:55 am Discussion
8:55 am – 9:15 am Break
9:15 am – 10:10 am Perioperative Management Challenges

Moderator: Marina Gitman – University of Miami, FL, USA
9:15 am – 9:30 am Liver transplantation for patients on anticoagulation

Linda Liu – UCSF, San-Francisco, CA, US
9:30 am – 9:45 am The role of the perfusionist in transplantation

Kathryn Gray – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
9:45 am – 10:00 am Perioperative pain management and fast track anesthesia

Ryan Nazemian – Lahey Clinic, MA, USA

10:00 am – 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am Pro/Con Debate:

Moderators: Govind Rangrass – St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
Christine Nguyen-Buckley – UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
10:30 am – 10:50 am Pro: We should do machine perfusion for all LT, not just DCD

Eduardo Fernandes – Clinic, Weston, FL, USA

10:50 am – 11:10 am Con: Machine perfusion for all LT is not necessary, even for DCD

Erika Fagelman – Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

11:10 am – 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break and Workshops
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Case Presentations

Moderators: Ryan Chadha – Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Coridalia Wald – University of Massachusetts, MA, USA

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Case 1: Dr. Arun Shankar  – Lahey Clinic, MA, USA
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Case 2: Elizabeth Townsend – University of Wisconsin, WI,USA

-Continued –
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm ILTS Cardiovascular Special Interest Group (SIG)
Moderators: Taylor Lloyd – MGH, Boston, MA, USA
Christopher Wray – UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm LVOT obstruction (dynamic + anatomical): When is it too much?

Jacek Cywinski – Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, US

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm CCTA should replace the stress test for pre-transplant cardiac evaluation of liver transplant candidates (Pro/Con)
Pro: Dempsey Hughes – Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Con: Sahi S. Banka – Jefferson Einstein Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Establishing cardiac risk for liver transplant candidate: the building and implementation of an algorithm
Vandana Khungar – Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Discussion
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm – 4:40 pm Searching for Ways to Improve Outcome

Moderators: Thomas Verbeek – Penn State University, Hershey, PA, USA
Fuat Saner – King Faisal Specialised Hospital & Research Center,
Riyadh/KSA

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Are we running out of indications for liver transplants, now that hepatitis C is gone?
Hoteit Maarouf – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Does it really matter? How anesthesiologists affect outcome
Samuel Demaria – Mount Sinai, NY,USA
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Do we care about fibrinolysis? Antifibrinolytics, cryoprecipitate, PCC and thrombosis?
Uzung Yoon – Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Discussion
4:40 pm – 5:15 pm The Future of Liver Transplantation

Moderators: Dmitri Bezinover – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

4:40 pm – 4:55 pm Xenotransplantation

Emily Vail – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
4:55 pm – 5:05 pm The future of ILTS: A message from the ILTS president
Nazia Selzner – University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

5:05 pm – 5:15 pm Closing remarks

Gebhard Wagener – Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Event Date

October 18, 2024