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
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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
Professor Gerhard Opelz
Citizenship Austrian, married, 2 children- M.D. 1970: University of Vienna, Austria
- Physician, Stockholm Blood Center, Sweden, 1970-1971
- Research Immunologist, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 1971-1981
- Professor of Transplantation Immunology, Director, Department of Transplantation Immunology, Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, 1981- present
- Member and honorary member of numerous professional societies
- Member of numerous editorial boards
- President, European Society for Organ Transplantation, 1989-1991
- Vice President, The Transplantation Society, 1982-1984 and 1992-1994
- Many other professional functions
- Initiator and coordinator of the Collaborative Transplant Study since 1982, with current active participation of some 500 transplant centers in 46 countries
- More than 600 publications in the international literature
John R. Lake, MD
John R. Lake, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. He also is the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology, and Hepatology. He is the Director of the Liver Transplantation Program and Executive Medical Director for Solid Organ Transplantation at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Dr Lake received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, after which he completed an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Gastroenterology, all at the University of California at San Francisco. He joined the faculty at UCSF where he helped establish the liver transplantation program. He moved to the University of Minnesota in 1998.
Dr Lake is a past president of the American Society of Transplantation. He is the Chair of the Liver and Intestinal Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing. He is a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation. He is on the editorial boards of Liver Transplantation, Nature Clinical Practice: Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Transplantation Proceedings. He is a co-author of the textbook Comprehensive Clinical Hepatology. Dr Lake has published over 200 scientific papers and book chapters on topics ranging from hepatitis C in liver transplant recipients to changes in quality of life after liver transplantation among adults.
Mandeep Mehra
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