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 Robert S. Brown, Jr., M.D., MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation
Columbia University
Medical Director, Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation
NewYork Presbyterian
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and the Medical Director for the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at New York-Presbyterian. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell College of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and received his medical degree in 1989 from New York University. He completed his internship and residency at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and in 1996; he received his master's degree in Public Health from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously held academic appointments at the University of California, San Francisco and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Brown's clinical research focuses on viral hepatitis and liver transplantation, including living donor liver transplantation, and he has research support and has published extensively in these areas. He serves as the chair of the national committee to develop guidelines for Living Donor Liver Transplantation for the United Network for Organ Sharing. Dr. Brown is on the Medical Board of the American Liver Foundation and is an active member of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Prof Chung Mau Lo
Professor Lo graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong and received surgical training at Queen Mary Hospital.
He was appointed as an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong in 1996 and was promoted to Professor of Surgery in 1999. He became a Chair Professor in 2004 and is currently the Chin Lan Hong Professor in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.
He is internationally renowned for his excellence in hepatobiliary surgery, particularly in his pioneering work in living donor liver transplant. His research interests are focused in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation and he has published over 220 original articles in refereed international journals. He is currently a Council Member of the International Liver Transplantation Society and the Past-President of the International Society for Digestive Surgery.
Dr. Robert M. Merion
Dr. Robert M. Merion is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at the University of Michigan. He is the Clinical Transplant Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and chairs the Steering Committee of two NIH-funded research consortia, the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL) and the Clinical Outcomes of Live Organ Donors network.
Dr. Merion is the Secretary of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, has served on the Board of Directors of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and is a past president of Gift of Life Michigan. Dr. Merion has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapters.
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