Key Dates
6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances
26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date
9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date
2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours
2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings
2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours
9 July 2008
Accommodation Bookings
9 July 2008
Accommodation Deposit deadline
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
Congress Opens
With thanks to
Associate Professor Allan Glanville, MBBS, MD, FRACP
Professor Glanville trained in Sydney, gaining his FRACP in 1985 before undertaking further education at the Brompton Hospital in London and Stanford University in California. At Stanford University, he performed studies in the new discipline of human heart-lung transplantation, which led to the award of a MD in 1990.
Since returning to Australia, Dr Glanville has worked as a specialist in Lung Transplantation at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney where he is Director of the Department of Thoracic Medicine and Medical Director of Lung Transplantation. Dr Glanville is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of New South Wales.
He is actively involved with international trials into new immunosuppressive and antifibroproliferative agents and is Chair of the European and Australian Investigators in Lung Transplantation. Dr Glanville is Immediate Past President of the Pulmonary Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and is author of over 110 publications. Recent works have included novel approaches to therapeutic drug monitoring after lung transplantation and a reappraisal of the significance of subclinical acute lung rejection with emphasis on lymphocytic bronchiolitis as a determinant of long term outcome after lung transplant.
Professor Anne Keogh MBBS MD FRACP
Professor Anne Keogh MBBS MD FRACP is Joint Head of the Clinical Research Program in the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, and the Senior Cardiologist in Cardiac Transplantation. She completed her Medical Doctorate, University of New South Wales on "Clinical Aspects of Heart Transplantation" in 1989.
Dr Keogh was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship in 1989 to work at Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, California. She is currently Professor in Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, Assistant Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and reviews for an extensive number of international journals.
Professor Keogh is a member and a Past President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) as well as the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand and an Honorary Member of the American Society of Transplant Physicians and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Her current research interests are cardiac failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension, heart transplantation, immunosuppression and alternatives to transplantation. She has published widely with more than 250 peer articles and 300 abstracts since 1984.
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