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
Accommodation Bookings
2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings
2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
Congress Opens
With thanks to
Post Graduate Education Weekend Course
| Saturday AM 08:30–12:30 |
Saturday PM 13:30–17:30 |
Sunday AM 08:30–12:30 |
Sunday PM 13:30–17:30 |
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| Theme 1 | Primer in Transplant immunology |
Clinical Science Update 1 |
Clinical Science Update 2 |
Astellas Sponsored Symposium |
| Theme 2 | Fundamentals of Clinical Transplantation |
Immunosuppression Update |
Surgery of the Living Donor and Transplant Recipient |
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| Theme 3 | Emerging Methodologies in Transplant Research |
Transplant Immunology Update 1 |
Transplant Immunology Update 2 |
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| Theme 4 | Improving Organ Donation |
Public Forum on Organ Donation and Transplantation |
DCD – Technologies, Logistics and Law |
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| Theme 5 | Transplant Nursing Update 1 |
Transplant Nursing Update 2 |
Pediatrics - Coming of Age in Organ Transplantation |
Early Morning Workshops
| HLA | Solid Phase Antibody Assays Non-HLA Antibodies and Humoral Rejection |
| Organ Donation | Donation after Cardiac Death Cultural Barriers to Donation and Transplantation |
| Ethics | Ethical Practice in Organ Donation |
| Xeno Tx | Regulation of Xenotransplantation |
| Infection | Epidemic Viral Disease in Transplant Recipients |
| Islets | Strategies to Improve Islet Quality for Transplantation New Technologies to Image Islets after Transplantation |
| Pancreas | Pancreas Transplant Pathology Surgical Decision Making in Pancreas Transplantation |
| Liver | Recipient Allocation of Donor Livers HepB and HIV in Liver Transplantation |
| Renal | Role of Protocol Biopsies T cell Induction Agents Post Transplant Malignancy Non-HLA Antibodies and Humoral Rejection Indigenous Access and Outcome for Transplantation |
| Surgery | Post Transplantation Disease Paired Kidney Exchange Surgical Technique Video Laposcope Donor Surgery |
