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
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With thanks to
Dr. Stephen T. Bartlett
Dr. Stephen T. Bartlett came to Baltimore in 1991 to become head of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Within a few years, he had developed the medical center's kidney and pancreas transplant program into one of the largest and most successful programs in the United States, known for excellent patient care, innovation and community outreach. By the mid-1990's, Dr. Bartlett had performed Maryland's first simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant and its first successful pancreas-alone transplant.
Working with colleagues in general surgery, Dr. Bartlett was also a leader in the development of the laparoscopic, or minimally-invasive technique for removing a kidney from a living kidney donor, which opened the door for many patients with kidney failure to identify a living donor. The University of Maryland Medical Center has performed about 950 minimally-invasive living donor operations since March 1996-the most in the nation.
Dr. Bartlett received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He did residency training in general surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and received Vascular Surgery training at Northwestern University. Dr. Bartlett is board certified in General Surgery and Vascular Surgery in the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, West Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey. At the University of California Davis Medical Center, he held his first faculty position where he rose to the Associate Professor level.
In addition to his responsibilities at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Bartlett serves as Medical Director for the Transplant Resource Center in Baltimore and appointed Member, Board of the National Kidney Foundation.
Ugo Boggi, MD
Ugo Boggi, MD graduated in Medicine at the University of Pisa where he also received most of his surgical training and conducted the majorityof his research years. Currently, he holds the position of Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pisa, where he heads the Division of General and Transplant Surgery (in uremic and diabetic patients).
Dr. Boggi's surgical experience, as the operating surgeon, includes some 4.000 interventions, covering all fields of general and minimally invasive surgery. Pancreas oncology (over 400 pancreatectomies) and abdominal organ transplantation (over 1000 grafts), however, are his fields of main intererest and specialization.
As an academic surgeon, Dr. Boggi has trained several generations of general and transplant surgeons, and has provided contributions to the medical literature in the form of 1 book, 30 book chapters, and 137 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Boggi has also described new methods for abdominal organ procurement (Surgery. 2004 135: 629) and retroperitoneal pancreas transplantation (Transplantation, 2005 79 (9):1137).
Dr Jon Odorico
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