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
Dixon B. Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Dixon B. Kaufman is Professor of Surgery, and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Kaufman completed his clinical surgical residency and transplant surgery fellowship training at the University of Minnesota in 1992.
Dr. Kaufman moved to Northwestern University in 1992 and initiated and currently serves as director of the Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Programs of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is an associate editor for the journals Transplantation, and American Journal of Transplantation, and serves as the Vice Chair of the Pancreas Transplantation Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
He is currently a Councilor of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association, and serves on the Council of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
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Dr. Rainer Gruessner
Dr. Rainer W.G. Gruessner, FACS, has been involved in pancreas transplantation for two decades. He currently holds the position of Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. Among his accomplishments, Dr. Gruessner performed the first laparoscopic simultaneous kidney and partial pancreas transplant from a living donor, and was one of the first surgeons to perform a simultaneous liver and intestinal transplant from a living donor. Aside from transplantation, his major clinical interests include minimal invasive procedures in general surgery. Born in Germany, Dr. Gruessner completed his medical degree as well as his residency at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz in 1987. He received the German equivalent of a PhD at the Philipps Universität in Marburg in 1991. He completed a fellowship in transplantation at the University of Minnesota in 1989.
His research interests include minimally invasive surgery including robotics, surgical options for patients with end-stage liver, pancreas, kidney and intestinal failure and donor-specific cell augmentation.
He has written two textbooks, more than 50 book chapters and over 300 published manuscripts. He serves on the editorial boards of 4 surgical and transplant journals and is a member of 15 national and international societies. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Pancreas Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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