APP Committee Update/Welcome

Speaker: Elaina Weldon, MSN, ACNP-BC

How to Start an APP Team to Growing to 24/7 Coverage Model

Speaker: Amy Ambrosini, AGACNP-BC, MSN, CCRN

From Few to Many, the Growing of APP Teams

Speaker: Jen Sharp, MSN, ACNP-BC

Leadership Presentation

Speaker: Deborah Hoch, DNP, ACNP

Lung Transplant Basics for Abdominal APPs

Speaker: Katina Walline, PA-C

Internal Rehabilitation

Speaker: Katherine Brodahl, PA-C, MPAS

Liver Frailty (1, 3 months) with Blood Biomarkers

Speaker: Jessica Fisher, DNP, BSN

Kidney Topic/Belatacept

Speaker: Jessica Speigel, PA-C

Donor Centers

Speaker: Philip Sommer

Transplant Psych Pearls

Speaker: Tyler Branagan

Pediatric Transplant Surgery as a Career

Speaker: Alexander Bondoc, MD

Technical Variants in Pediatric Liver Transplant

Speaker: Kambiz Etesami, MD, FACS

Pediatric Multi-Visceral Current Challenges & Updates

Speaker: Akin Tekin, MD

Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Technical Challenges & Unique Considerations

Speaker: Christine Hwang, MD, FACS

Living Donor Kidney Transplant Demonstration Proposal

Speaker: Steven Potter, MD

Why Should You Get Involved with Advocacy?

Speaker: Kiran Dhanireddy, MD

Legislative Update

Speaker: Peggy Tighe, JD

Regulatory Environment & HRSA OPTN Modernization Initiative

Speaker: Diane Millman, JD

Are You Ready to Be the Boss?

Speaker: Irene Kim, MD

Expanding/Building Your Program

Speaker: Shimul Shah, MD, MHCM

Growing Your APP Team

Speaker: Katherine Klingenberg, PA-C, MMS

When's the Right Time to Leave & Do it Gracefully

Speaker: David Lee, MD

Case Discussion: Multifocal iCCA for Transplant

Speakers: Ashish Saharia, MD, Amit Singal, MD, Milind Javle, MD

Case Discussion: HCC and PVTT

Speakers: Parissa Tabrizian, MD, Amit Singal, MD, Milind Javle, MD

Case Discussion: CRC Mets

Speakers: Shimul Shah, MD, MHCM, Amit Singal, MD, Milind Javle, MD

Mechanisms of Combined Kidney/Bone Marrow Transplant (CK/BMT) Tolerance using Polyclonal Autologous Tregs to Promote Durable Chimerism in a Translational Model

Speaker: Erin Duggan, MD

Mechanisms of Transplant Tolerance Induction with Costimulatory Blockade, Post-Transplant Total Lymphoid Irradiation, and Donor Hematopoietic Stem Cell Infusion

Speaker: Steven Kim, MD

RNA Interference During Liver Machine Preservation to Improve Liver Graft Quality

Speaker: Paulo Martins, MD, PhD

Using Phenotypic Precision Medicine to Individualize Immunosuppression Based on Quantifiable Markers of Immune Response and Allograft Injury

Speaker: Ali Zarrinpar, MD, PhD

Current Heart Allocation: Are Exceptions Justified

Speaker: Amrusha Musunuru, MD

Combined Liver Transplant and Cardiac Surgery: Long Term Outcomes and Predictors of Success

Speaker: Glenn Wakam, MD

Preimplantation infusion of C1 Esterase Inhibitor (C1INH) improves deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) function in allografts at risk for ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI)

Speaker: Steven Wisel, MD

Multicenter US liver transplant outcomes after NRP versus SRR from DCD donors

Speaker: Aleah Brubaker, MD, PhD

Harnessing Procurement Centers & Machine Perfusion for Work/Life Balance

Speaker: Jennifer Yu, MD

Transplantation: the Ultimate Team Sport

Speaker: Grace Lee Riddle, MD

Navigating Work though Personal Hardship

Speaker: Kristin Mekeel, MD

Peer Support Through the Storm

Speaker: Sunil Geevarghese, MD, FACS, MSCI

The Impact of Mindset on Surgical Training & Surgeon Resilience 

Speaker:  Kelly Collins, MD

Poster Session B

Outcomes of Obese Donors and their Recipients in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Speaker: Ronit Patnaik, MD

Hydrogen Sulfide Supplementation Improves Renal Graft Function in an Ex Vivo Porcine Model of Ischemia and Reperfusion

Speaker: Alp Sener, MD, PhD

Single Center Analysis of The Positive Impact of a 24/7 Advanced Practice Provider Care Model for Liver Transplant Recipients

Speaker: Amy Ambrosini, AGACNP-BC, MSN, CCRN

Immunomodulatory Role of Wharton’s Jelly-Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Kidney Transplantation

Speaker: Anton Dugandzic

The Impact of Machine Perfusion on Outcomes of Macrosteatotic Liver Allografts Following Liver Transplantation

Speaker: Claire Cywes

The Impact on Geographic Disparity of Removing Donor Service Area from Kidney Allocation

Speaker: Luckmini Liyanage

PreTransplant Normothermic Perfusion Affects Inflammatory Transcripts Following Perfusion and Implantation in both DCD and DBD Liver Grafts

Speaker: Glenn Wakam, MD

The Use of Pediatric En Bloc Donors with low GFR in Adult Kidney Transplants

Speaker: David Farhat, MD

Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: The Gold Standard 

Speaker: Stephanie Yi, MD, FACS, MPH

Robotic Donor Nephrectomy: The New and Improved Approach

Speaker: Jason Wellen, MD, MBA

The Open Approach to Living Donor Surgery: Tried, True, and Safe

Speaker: Nicolas Goldaracena, MD

Minimally-Invasive Live Donor Hepatectomy: The Ideal Approach

Speaker: Yee Lee Cheah, MD, FACS, MBBCh, BAO