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
Dr. Jose Oberholzer, MD
Dr. Jose Oberholzer, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has extensive experience in clinical and experimental islet transplantation.
He trained at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), as well as at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada and was the Head of the Islet Transplant Program at the University of Geneva and the GRAGIL islet consortium from 1998 to 2002, completing a significant number of islet transplants.
He has been heading UIC's Islet Transplant Program since 2003 and is the Chief of the Transplant Division at UIC since Summer 2007. UIC has a comprehensive multi-organ transplant program with emphasis on transplantation for diabetes, as well as on robotic surgery in living donors for kidney, liver, pancreas and small bowel.
To date the UIC program has performed over 250 human islet isolations for both transplant and research and has successfully completed a phase 1/2 trial with 10 patients. UIC is a federally funded islet cell resource center and provides islet preparation for researchers around the world. UIC is the first center in the US to have started a phase-3 licensure trial in clinical islet transplantation.
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