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
James J. Wynn, M.D.
James J. Wynn, M.D. is chief of transplant surgery, professor of surgery and Mason Distinguished Chair in Transplant Surgery and Immunology at the Medical College of Georgia (USA).
Dr. Wynn, a former member of the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors, is currently a member of the OPTN/UNOS Policy Oversight Committee and the OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee. He also has served on the OPTN/UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee and as chair of the OPTN/UNOS Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Committee.
In addition to his OPTN/UNOS service, he has been chair of the SRTR [Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients] Technical Advisory Committee. He has had a long-standing interest in the appropriate allocation and utilization of kidneys recovered from expanded criteria donors.
Dr Rutger Ploeg
Howard M. Nathan, President & CEO Gift of Life Donor Program
Howard Nathan is the President & CEO of Philadelphia-based Gift of Life Donor Program.
Gift of Life is one of the largest and oldest of the 58 organ procurement organizations in the United States, having coordinated more than 26,000 organs for transplantation and tens of thousands of tissue transplants since 1974.
Mr. Nathan is also the founder and Director of the Gift of Life Institute, an international research and training center for donation and transplantation professionals established in 2004. Considered a leading authority on organ and tissue donation, Mr. Nathan has served on numerous leadership boards and committees including the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO), and the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation.
Mr. Nathan serves on the board of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council (DVHC) and is President of the International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP). Mr. Nathan has published more than 100 scientific papers and abstracts in his 28-year tenure with Gift of Life and is a regular presenter at national and international organ procurement and transplantation conferences and is consulted frequently by the national media.
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