Welcome

Burcin Ekser, MD, PhD

The Evolving Role of OPOs in a Changing Environment

Moderated by: Julie Heimbach, MD & Tamer Shaker, MD

Future of OPO in the Era of CMS Metrics

Harry Wilkins, MD

Centralized DCD to Maximize Organ Donation & Allocation

Doug Butler, MBA, RN

What Can the American Board Surgery Offer Transplant Surgeons

Moderated by: Kim Olthoff, MD & Mike Rizzari, MD

ABS Intro & Explanation

Kim Olthoff, MD

Panel Discussion

Amy Evenson, MD

Kim Olthoff, MD

Jennifer Verbesey, MD

Oral Abstract Session I

Moderated by: Marc Melcher, MD, PhD

Programmatic Normothermic Machine Perfusion Improves Liver Transplant Waitlist Outcomes for Patients with Lower MELD Scores: A Multi-Center Study

Sangeeta Satish, MD

Alpha-Gal-KO Xenothymokidney Function in a Living Human Recipient with a Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support Device

Imad Aljabban, MMSc, BS

Public Perceptions of Organ Donation by Determination of Death & Procurement Technique

Anji Wall, MD, PhD

Out of Sequence Liver Transplants: A Nationwide Analysis of Organ Utilization & Allocation Equity

Glenn Wakam, MD

Break

Najarian Lecture

David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD

Novel Approaches in Transplant

Moderated by: Burcin Ekser, MD, PhD & Varvara Kirchner, MD

Everything Robotic: Robotic Donor Hepatectomy & Robotic Liver Transplant: World Largest Experience

Dieter Broering, MD, PhD, FEBS, FACS

Clinical Renal Xenotransplantation - The First Living Recipient & Current Challenges

Tatsuo Kawai, MD

Flip the Liver: Reduced Left Lateral & Monosegment Liver Transplants in Pediatric Recipients with Long Term Outcomes

Deniz Balci, MD

Applications of AI in Transplantation

Mamatha Bhat, MD, PhD

Optimizing Transplant Outcomes from Older Donors

Stefan Tullius, MD, PhD

Poster Session A

Breakfast

Advanced Transplant Provider Session

Moderated by: Hailey Kessler, PA-C & Amy Ambrosini, AGACNP-BC, MSN, CCRN

APP Committee Updates & Welcome!

Heidi Sarumi, PA-C, MMS

We Are Burned Out, Now What?

Linday Powell, MSN, DNP, FNP-C, BSN, ACNP-C

Assessing the Impact of Health Literacy Interventions on Post-Transplant Outcomes

Colleen Chime Karkhang, CNP

Transplant Oncology: Current Indications & Future Directions

Kaitlyn Musto, MS, PA-C, MSPAS

Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant vs Safety Net Kidney after Heart Transplant

Loretta Phillips, NP

Normothermic Regional Perfusion: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s, When’s, Why’s & How’s

Georgeine Smith, MS, PA-C, MHS

APPs in Liver Transplant: Perception, Implementation & Effect

Sarah Nargiso, PA-C

Delayed Not Denied Graft Function – Strategies to Optimize Outcomes

Kimberly Sureau, DNP, APRN-BC, CCRN, RN

Increasing Access to Living Kidney Donation through Standardization & Removing Barriers

Dianne LaPointe Rudow, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN

About Face: Current Issues & Clinical Advances in VCA Facial Transplantation

Bruce Gelb, MD

Session A: So You Want to Be a Mentor?

Moderated by: Anthony Watkins, MD, Kristina Lemon, MD & Katherine Klingenberg, PA-C, MMS

Becoming a Mentor & Staying a Mentor through the Years

David Mulligan, MD

Introduction to Cross Mentorship - Mentoring at All Levels

James Guarerra, MD, FACS

How to Engage with Mentees. Where Do You Start?

Rachel Forbes, MD, MBA, FACS

How the ATP Committee Has Grown Mentorship in ASTS

Katie Brodahl, PA-C, MPAS

Session B: Pancreas Transplantation: Improving Our Workforce, Training, and Mentorship

Moderated by: Ken Chavin, MD, PhD, MBA & David Aufhauser, MD

Pancreas Procurement & Backbench

Karthak Ramanathan, MD

Training Future Pancreas Transplant Surgeons

Ty Dunn, MD, MS

Post-Operative Management of Pancreas Transplant Recipients

Jon Odorico, MD

Islet Transplantation: Current Updates & FDA Approval in the United States

Piotr Witkowski, MD, PhD

Session A: LDLT Training and Certification – Is It Time To Move Forward?

Moderated by: Liz Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS & Madhukar Patel, MD, MBA, ScM

How Did We Do It?

Abhinav Humar, MD

Utilizing Innovative Techniques? Can We Go Virtual?

Adeel Khan, MD

Who is Responsible for Certification Oversight & Quality Metrics?

Tim Pruett, MD

Session B: No Kidneys Left Behind

Moderated by: Jacqueline Garonzik Wang, MD, PhD, FACS & Tamer Shaker, MD

HBV & HCV to Naive

Kristina Lemon, MD

Peds En Bloc/Dual Kidneys

Obi Ekwenna, MD, FACS

How to Handle High KDPI/Bad Biopsies or Pump Numbers

Nitin Katariya, MD

Transplant Oncology

Moderated by: Arpit Amin, MD, & Varvara Kirchner, MD

Liver Transplantation for Colorectal Liver Metastasis in the US & World

Roberto Hernandez, MD

Role of Liver & Multivisceral Transplants for Treatment of Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Akin Tekin, MD

Current Protocols in Liver Transplantation for Intrahepatic & Hilar CCA

Majella Doyle, MD, MBA

Current Perspectives in Transplantation for Liver Malignancies

Nicolas Goldaracena, MD

Sponsored Lunch Symposium

CareDx

Sponsored Lunch Symposium

Paragonix

Exhibit Hall Open

Creating Future Surgeon Scientists

Moderated by: Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD & Burcin Ekser, MD, PhD

Support from the Chair: Creating Future Surgeon-Scientists

Allan Kirk, MD, PhD

How to Manage a Busy Practice & Successful Research Laboratory?

Keri Lunsford MD, PhD, FACS

Maximizing Collaboration Between Surgeons & Scientists and Societies

Valeria Mas, PhD, MS

How the ASTS Surgeon-Scientist Committee Can Propel Your Career

Satish Nadig, MD, PhD

Research Grants Session

Moderated by: Sunil Karhadkar, MD & Lisa McElroy, MD

2022 ASTS-Veloxis Fellowship in Transplantation Grant Update

Mohammed Akhtar

2022 ASTS Collaborative Scientist Grant Update

Heidi Yeh, MD

2021 ASTS-Natera Socio Economic and Racial Disparity Grant SERD Update

Praise Matemavi, DO

Award Ceremony I

Presented by Christopher Marsh, MD, FACS

Hume Lecture

Allan Kirk, MD, PhD

Break

Oral Abstract Session II

Moderated by: Andre Dick, MD, MPH & Justin Steggerda, MD

Prolonged Time from Cross Clamp until Normothermic Machine Perfusion Start is Associated with Increased Risk of Early Allograft Dysfunction Following DCD Liver Transplant

Charles Lee

U.S. Organ Procurement Organization Donor Care Unit Model Comparisons

Richard Pietroski, MS, CTBS, CPTC

Rising Trends of Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease-Associated Hospitalizations and Liver Transplants in the United States

Vrishketan Sethi

Expedited Lung Allocation in the Era of Continuous Distribution

Sajjad Ali

Congress, the OPTN & ASTS: What to Expect from Capitol Hill in 2025

Moderated by: Kiran Dhanireddy, MD & Debra Sudan, MD

The Transplant Advocacy Landscape in a Post-Election Era

Peggy Tighe, JD

Post Election Congress: Leaders & Legislative Items to Watch

Amit Mathur, MD, MS, FACS

OPTN & Capitol Hill: What to Expect in the Year Ahead

Kiran Dhanireddy, MD

Diane Millman, JD

Debra Sudan, MD

Caroline Rochon, MD, FACS

Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD

Q&A Discussion

Poster Session B

Games Night!

Breakfast

The Practical Implementation of NRP in Your Program

Moderated by: Matthew Levine, MD, PhD & Andrew Perry, MD

Technical Considerations

Charles Strom, MD

The Finances of NRP? What is the Cost & Benefit?

Shennen Mao, MD/em>

Should You Use In-House or Hire a Team?

Peter Abt, MD

Established Parameters for Use?

Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH

Q&A Discussion

Biomarkers During Ex Situ Machine Perfusion

Moderated by: Matthew Levine, MD, PhD & Andrew Perry, MD

Introduction & Overview

David Foley, MD

Standardizing Viability Assessment in Normothermic Machine Perfusion

Kris Croome, MD

Is There Utility of Biomarkers in Hypothermic Machine Perfusion

Andrea Schlegel

Robotic Surgery in Transplantation

Moderated by: Leigh Anne Dageforde, MD, MPH & Adeel Khan, MD

Starting a Robotic Living Donor Hepatectomy Program: Considerations & Pitfalls

Trevor Nydam, MD

Starting a Robotic Kidney Transplant

Raquel Garcia-Roca, MD

Starting a Robotic Pancreas Transplant

Mario Spaggiari MD

Sponsored Lunch Symposium

TransMedics

Oral Abstract Session III

Moderated by: Bob Montgomery, MD, FACS, PhD & Stephanie Chartier-Plante, MD, FACS, FRCS

Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Young Biliary Atresia Recipients is Associated with Improved Outcomes in the Modern Era

Ioannis Ziogas, MD

Uncovering the Mechanisms of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) in Human Kidney Transplants Using Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics

Siyu Lin

Awards Ceremony II

Presented by: Thomas Peters, MD

President's Address

Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD

HRSA Update on OPTN Modernization

Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD

Jayme Locke, MD

Ray Lynch, MD

Afternoon Break

Moderated by: Sunil Karhadkar, MD & Lisa McElroy, MD

ATP/Ronald McDonald House Event

Pints with Professors: A Pipeline Networking Event

Reception & Dinner

Breakfast

Mini Oral Abstracts

Moderated by: Daniela Ladner, MD, MPH & Arpit Amin, MD

Outcomes By Epstein-Barr Virus Serostatus In Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Henry Landers

Early Post-Transplant Clinical Outcomes from the Largest Real-World Multi-Center Study of Controlled Moderate Hypothermic Preservation of Donor Livers

Kiran Dhanireddy, MD

Death Following Living Liver Donation: The National Experience Over Three Decades

Elizabeth King, MD

Transforming The Logistics of Liver Transplantation With Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Clinical Impact Versus Cost

Qimeng Gao

Rescuing Hard to Place Kidneys Using a Centralized Normothermic Machine Preservation and Assessment Service

Matthew Holzner, MD, MSCR

Preventing Connexin 43 Gap Junction Loss in Donor Graft Endothelium Enhances Allograft Protection

Dinesh Jaishankar

Preservation of Discarded Human Kidneys for 10 days at Subzero Temperature

McLean Taggart

Value Based Care in Transplantation

Moderated by: Will Chapman, MD, FACS & Madhukar Patel, MD, MBA, ScM

Roadmap to the Future - Introduction

Parsia Vagefi, MD

Regulatory Changes Impacting Transplant Patients

Burcin Taner, MD, FACS

Effect on Education & Clinical Care

Ken Andreoni, MD