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Scientific material will be presented through symposia, oral abstracts, and poster presentations as well as small group conversation-based sessions with experts designed for exploration of both clinical and basic science topics.

Plan your schedule by viewing the Program Topics & Session Titles that are listed to help shape your Virtual Connect experience!

Time Zone Schedule of Program – Eastern Time Zone

The program schedule is built in Eastern Time Zone. The Virtual Connect platform will automatically adjust to the time zone you reside in.

Friday, June 4, 2021

Welcome

2:45-3:00 PM ET

In-Depth Symposia

3:00-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: Living Donor Selection Where to Draw the Line
  • Liver: Pushing Past the Limits of LDLT in the US: Programmatic Development
  • Heart & Lung: Don’t Throw Them in the Bucket!!! Tricks of the Trade to Optimize Every Thoracic Donor Offer 
  • Basic & Translational:  New Approaches to Tackling Alloimmunity
  • Pharmacy:  Comprehensive Management in Multi-Organ Transplantation: It Takes a Village
  • Infectious Disease:  Transplant Infectious Diseases
  • Other:  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Transplantation: The Promise, The Reality, and The (Scary?) Future
  • Other:  Racism in Transplantation: Current State and Future Directions
  • Professional Development & Advanced Practice Provider: Mastering the Transplant Essentials
Break

5:30 - 6:00 PM ET

ATC's Women's Networking Event

6:00 - 8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by CareDx

Live Video Discussion, Question and Answer sessions.

Join your fellow peers virtually for ATC’s Women’s Networking Event.  This networking event will go beyond the curriculum to discuss strategies to achieve personal and professional success.

Program description listed here.

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Welcome

8:45-9:00 AM ET

IMPACT Sessions

9:00-10:00 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: How Low Can You Go? Assessing GFR in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
  • Kidney: To Band or Not to Band? AVF Access Ligation after Kidney Transplantation 
  • Liver: Technical Versus Oncologic Approaches to Resectability
  • Heart: DCD Donors for Heart Transplantation - The Devil is in the Details
  • Pediatric: When is a Combined Organ Transplant an Appropriate use of Organs in the Pediatric Recipient?
  • Basic: Extracellular Vesicles in Transplantation
  • Translational: The Infection Rejection Connection in Solid Organ Transplantation
  • Infectious Disease: Infected Donor and Recipient: When is it Safe to Transplant
  • Pharmacy: Stop the Pain! Novel Opioid Minimization Strategies to Mitigate Pain in the Pre-, Peri-, and Post-Operative Transplant Phases
  • Public Policy: US Organ Allocation - An Update
  • Ethics: We Said Yes; Transplanting Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease: Time to Focus on Aftercare
Break

10:00-10:30 AM ET

Plenary Oral Abstract Session 1

10:30-11:30 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics Highly Rated Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET

ASTS Presidential Introduction & Address

12:00-12:30 PM ET

ASTS Research Grants & Pioneer Award

12:30-1:30 PM ET

Sponsored Satellite Symposium

1:30-2:30 PM ET

Break

2:30-3:00 PM ET

IMPACT Sessions

3:00-4:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • VCA: Psychosocial and Bioethical Aspects of VCA: An Update
  • Kidney: Late Breaking IMPACT: Kidney Paired Donation: Innovation & Evolution Leading to Improved Outcomes 
  • Kidney: KDPI: Time for a New Look?
  • Liver: Beyond Survival: When MELD isn’t Enough
  • Lung: Taking a Step Further: Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion: (EVLP): The Clinical, Therapeutic and Scientific Opportunities
  • Heart: Rise of the Machines: The Evolution of Patient Management in the New Heart Allocation System
  • Pancreas & Professional Development: The Multidisciplinary Approach to Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto Transplantation Patient Care
  • Basic: Fc Region: The Business End of Antibody Regulation
  • Translational: Nanotherapeutics in Organ Transplantation: How Close are We?
  • Infectious Disease: Herpes Just Keeps Coming Back: How to Manage Difficult Herpes Virus Infections
  • Pharmacy: Role of Biomarkers in Current Clinical Practice - Remote Monitoring for the Spectrum of Solid Organ Transplantation
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

4:00-4:30 PM ET

Focus in Transplantation

Basic - New Roles of Secondary Immune Organs in Rejection

4:30-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

4:30-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • VCA: VCA: Basic and Clinical
  • Basic: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes - I
  • Infectious Disease: COVID-19 SESSION 1
  • Kidney: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation 
  • Liver: Living Donor Liver Transplant and Partial Grafts 
  • Heart: Triple "D" in Heart Transplantation: DCD, Dual-Organ and Declined Hearts
Break

5:30-6:00 PM ET

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

6:00-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Pancreas & Small Bowel: Pancreas/Small Bowel
  • Infectious Disease: COVID-19 in Kidney Recipients
  • Kidney: Cardiovascular and Metabolic Complications
  • Kidney: Pediatric Kidney
  • Liver: Liver Transplant Oncology
  • Lung: How to Expect the Unexpected- Incorporating Predictors into Lung Transplant Decision Making
Break

7:00-7:30 PM ET

Poster Video Chat Session 1

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentation with Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Live Video Conversations with top Poster Abstract Presenters.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • VCA: VCA Basic and Clinical
  • Basic: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes
  • Kidney: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation 1
  • Heart: Heart/LVAD: All Topics
  • Pancreas & Small Bowel: Pancreas & Small Bowel
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Break

8:30-8:45 PM ET

Expert VIP Meet-Up

8:45-9:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentations with Live Video Question & Answers.  Limited Audience Size to 50 People.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: What is the Big Deal with a Little Fatty Liver in a Living Kidney Donor Candidate?
  • Kidney: Cytomegalovirus Prevention in Kidney Transplantation: Best Practices and Emerging Innovations
  • Liver: Minimal Invasive Surgery in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
  • Liver: The Role of Exercise in Advanced Liver Disease
  • Liver: The Kidney in Liver Disease
  • Heart & Lung: Complex Thoracic Desensitization Cases: What Makes Sense?
  • Small Bowel: Quality of Life after Intestine Transplant
  • Infectious Disease: Controversies and Updates in Management of Hepatitis B Virus in Solid Organ Transplantation
  • Pancreas: Expanding your Pancreas Transplant Program
  • Women's Health: Uterus Transplantation - Meet the New Kid on the Block
  • Pediatric: Recurrent Disease in Pediatric Transplantation
  • Pharmacy: Using Motivational Interviewing to Identify and Overcome Barriers to Adherence
  • Public Policy: The Practical Implementation of Imminent Death Donation
  • Other: "Check with your PCP…”- Primary Care for the Transplant Provider 
  • Other: Real Talk: Process and Strategy for Clinical Trial Grant Writing

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Welcome

8:45-9:00 AM ET

IMPACT Sessions

9:00-10:00 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: TCMR After Kidney Transplantation in 2021: Are We Moving Forward?
  • Kidney: Blood Pressure Screening and Associated Outcomes in Living Kidney Donors
  • Liver: Evolution of Living Liver Donation in North America: 2020 and Beyond
  • Heart: Examine Well Your Blood: Heart Transplant Management Without a Biopsy
  • Pediatric: What is this Spot on My…….? What Every Transplant Physician Should Know about Treating Skin Problems in Pediatric Transplant Patients
  • Basic: Ischemia Reperfusion-Alloimmunity Interface
  • Translational: Spatial and Single Cell Profiling in Transplant Immune Injury
  • Infectious Disease: Is the Microbiome a Therapeutic Target in Transplantation?
  • Pharmacy: The Road Less Traveled: Experience with Unique Immunosuppression in Pediatric Transplantation
  • Public Policy: Doctors, Lawyers, and Legislators: Who Decides for Whom?
  • Ethics: Palliative Care & Solid Organ Transplantation: A Spectrum of Care
Break

10:00-10:30 AM ET

Plenary Oral Abstract Session 2

10:30-11:30 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics Highly Rated Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET

AST Presidential Introduction & Address

12:00-12:30 PM ET

AST Achievement Awards & Lifetime Achievement Awards 

12:30-1:30 PM ET

Sponsored Satellite Symposia

1:30-2:30 PM ET

Break

2:30-3:00 PM ET

IMPACT Sessions

3:00-4:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • COVID-19: Late Breaking: COVID Vaccination and Immunotherapy in Transplant Patients
  • Kidney: Role of Genetic Testing in Potential Living Donor Candidates
  • Kidney: Medical Risks in Young Donors
  • Liver: Responsible Expansion of Living Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States
  • Heart & Lung: Controversies in Candidate Selection for Cardiothoracic Transplantation
  • Heart & Kidney: The Results of the Consensus Conference on Heart-Kidney Transplant
  • Ethics: Reaching for the Elusive Brass Ring: Challenges Faced by Donor and Recipient Minorities when Accessing Transplant 
  • Basic: Ex-vivo Modeling of Complex Immune Processes
  • Translational: Regulatory T cell Therapy for Clinical Autoimmune and Transplantation Tolerance
  • Infectious Disease: Don't Give up HOPE: Evolving Standard Transplant Care for HIV Infected Patients
  • Pharmacy: Advanced Ambulatory Practice Models in Solid Organ Transplant 
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

4:00-4:30 PM ET


Focus in Transplantation

Translational - Solving the Donor Shortage with Science

4:30-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

4:30-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Public Policy / Regulatory: Potpourri of Public Policy and Allocation
  • Basic: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes - II
  • Infectious Disease: COVID-19 SESSION 2
  • Kidney: Kidney Deceased Donor Selection
  • Liver: Hemodynamic Consequences of Portal Hypertension Including Kidney Issues
  • Heart: Do's and Don'ts of Heart Transplant Care
Break

5:30-6:00 PM ET

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

6:00-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Pharmacy: The Metabolism Milleu: Updates in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenomics
  • Infectious Disease: Infections in Kidney Recipients
  • Kidney: Kidney desensitization/KPD
  • Kidney: Kidney Complications
  • Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues
  • Lung: When Opportunity Knocks... Identifying interventions to Optimize Lung Transplant Outcomes
Break

7:00-7:30 PM ET

Poster Video Chat Session 2

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentation with Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Live Video Conversations with top Poster Abstract Presenters.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Public Policy & Regulatory: Adherence, Economics, and Ethics
  • Pharmacy: Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacogenetics, and Drug Interactions, Oh My!
  • Kidney: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation 2
  • Liver: Liver 1
  • Lung: Lung Transplant Topics
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Monday, June 7, 2021

Welcome

8:45-9:00 AM ET

IMPACT Sessions

9:00-10:00 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: How Best to Optimize Deceased Donor Kidneys for Organ Transplantation in 2021? 
  • Kidney: APOL1 and Living Donation: Donors and Recipients
  • Liver: Above and Below the Diaphragm: Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Liver Transplantation 
  • VCA: Novel Strategies to Modulate Innate and Adaptive Immunity in VCA
  • Pediatric: Walking the Tightrope: Malignancies after Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation (SOT)
  • Basic: Novel Approaches for Immune Modulation of the CD154 Pathway in Transplantation: New Tricks for an Old Dog
  • Translational: Taking the Next Step in Organ Perfusion: from Preservation to Personalized Repair
  • Infectious Disease: Population Health Improves Transplant Outcomes
  • Pharmacy & Liver: Help Me Stay Sober After Liver Transplantation – Multimodal Multidisciplinary Approach
  • Advanced Practice Provider: Pathway to Publishing
  • Ethics: Incorporating New Data into Selection of Living Kidney Donors: Minor Modifications or Fundamental Changes?
Break

10:00-10:30 AM ET

Plenary Oral Abstract Session 3

10:30-11:30 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics Highly Rated Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET

AJT Editor Update & AJT Awards

12:00-12:30 PM ET

State-of-the-Art Lecture # 1

12:30-1:00 PM ET

Break

1:00-1:30 PM ET

Sponsored Satellite Symposia

1:30-2:30 PM ET

Break

2:30-3:00 PM ET

IMPACT Sessions

3:00-4:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • COVID-19: Late Breaking: Immune Response to COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination in Kidney Transplant Recipients
  • Kidney: Is There Still a Role for Desensitization for Kidney Transplantation in the Modern Era?
  • Kidney: Role of Surveillance Biopsy and Currently Approved Biomarkers for Diagnosing Acute Kidney Rejection: Clinical Application and Cost-effectiveness
  • Liver: Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis
  • Liver: Disparities in Liver Transplantation
  • Professional Development: #MeToo in Academia: Enough is Enough!
  • Basic: Innate Immune Cells and Allograft Rejection
  • Basic: Novel Targets for Transplant Immunosuppression
  • Translational: The Science of Biomarkers, or the Lack Thereof
  • Infectious Disease: Optimizing Use of HCV-Infected Organs - The Implementation Phase: When to Treat and Why?
  • Pharmacy & Advanced Practice Provider: Innovative and Effective Tools to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Post-Transplant from the Viewpoint of a Transplant Physician, Pharmacist, and Advanced Practice Provider
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

4:00-4:30 PM ET

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

4:30-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Administrative: Quality Assurance and Regulatory Issues
  • Basic: B cell/Antibody and Histocompatibility
  • Basic: Biomarkrs, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes - III
  • Infectious Disease: ID Poutpouri 
  • Kidney: Acute Cellular Rejection
  • Liver: Recipient Selection
Break

5:30-6:00 PM ET

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

6:00-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Basic: Rejection, Innate Immunity and Allorecognition
  • Basic: Lymphocyte Biology and Tolerance
  • Infectious Disease: BK virus in Kidney Recipients
  • Kidney: Kidney Immunosuppression
  • All Organs: Disparities in Access and Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
  • Liver: Liver Pediatrics
Break

7:00-7:30 PM ET

Poster Video Chat Session 3

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentation with Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Live Video Conversations with top Poster Abstract Presenters.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Administrative: Quality Assurance Process Improvement & Regulatory Issues
  • Basic: Basic 1
  • Kidney: Kidney Alloimmune Responses
  • All Organs: Organ Inclusive
  • Infectious Disease: Infectious Disease 1
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

7:30-8:30 PM ET

AST Town Hall

7:30 PM ET

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Welcome

8:45-9:00 AM ET

IMPACT Sessions

9:00-10:00 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: What's New in the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Management of Candidates for Kidney Transplantation?
  • Kidney: To Stent or Not to Stent - That is the Ureteral Question
  • Liver: Weighing in on Bariatric Surgery and Liver Transplantation
  • VCA: VCA - Is There a Way Forward to Standard of Care?
  • Pediatric: Vaccinating the Unvaccinated Prior to Transplant: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Basic: Integrated Molecular Approach to Chronic Allograft Injury 
  • HLA: ABO Incompatible Transplantation from Genetics to Transplanation
  • Infectious Disease: Travel, Food, and Leisure
  • Other: Uh Oh, My New Home is a Lemon: Cardiovascular Disease after Solid Organ Transplant
  • Administrative: Bridge Over Troubled Water: OPTN Policy Development, Directions, and Innovations
  • Women's Health: Surgical Approaches to Address Sex-based Disparities in Access to Appropriately Sized Organs 
Break

10:00-10:30 AM ET

NEW Session - Innovations in Transplantation 

10:30 - 10:50 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentation w/Live Video Question & Answers

Plenary Oral Abstract Session 4

10:50-11:50 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics Highly Rated Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

ATC's People's Choice Award Session

11:50 AM - 12:00 PM ET

Live Video Audience Polling 

Multiple Topics.  Virtual Audience will Vote on the MOST Impactful Plenary Abstract Presentation.

Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

12:00 - 12:30 PM ET

State-of-the-Art Lecture # 2

12:30-1:00 PM ET

Break

1:00-1:30 PM ET

Sponsored Satellite Symposia

1:30-2:30 PM ET

Break

2:30-3:00 PM ET

IMPACT Sessions

3:00-4:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • COVID-19: Late Breaking: Factors Contributing to Outcomes of Transplant Patients with COVID-19
  • Kidney: Recurrent Glomerulonephritis in Transplant and the Role of Ancillary Tools in Diagnosis and Prognosis
  • Kidney: Should We Abolish Cardiac Screening for Asymptomatic Kidney Transplant Candidates?
  • Liver: Rising Stars Surgeon Scientists
  • Other: Utilizing Genomic and Omics for Discovery and Application in Solid-organ Transplantation  
  • Small Bowel: Surgical Management Before and After Intestine Transplant – Timing is Everything
  • Pancreas & Kidney: Pancreas After Kidney Transplantation: Unlocking The Survival Advantage
  • Basic: Checkpoints for B cells and Antibody Production
  • Translational: Perspectives in Progress in Clinical Transplant Research: What Have We Learned, Where are We Going?
  • HLA:  New Insights and Controversies in HLA Testing: Pro and Con Debate
  • Pediatric & Liver: Mandatory Splitting of an Adult Liver Offer: Help a Child - Disadvantage an Adult 
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

4:00-4:30 PM ET

Year in 2021 Review

Best in ID Papers

4:30-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

4:30-5:30 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Basic: Biomarkers and Cellular Therapies
  • All Organs: Disparities in Access and Machine Learning Outcomes in Solid organ transplantation
  • Kidney: Kidney Antibody Mediated Rejection
  • Kidney: Kidney Psychosocial
  • Liver: Post Liver Transplant Management and Complications
Break

5:30-6:00 PM ET

Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Sessions

6:00-7:00 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Abstracts Submitted to ATC 2021 Virtual Connect 

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Basic: Xenotranplantation and Preclinical Studies
  • Basic: Ischemia Reperfusion & Organ Rehabilitation
  • Infectious Disease / Liver: Hepatitis C
  • Kidney: Live Kidney Donation
  • All Organs: Surgical Issues and Deceased Donor Management
  • Public Policy / Regulatory: A Penny for Your Thoughts: the Economics and Psychosocial Aspects of Transplant
Break

7:00-7:30 PM ET

Poster Video Chat Session 4

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentation with Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics of Live Video Conversations with top Poster Abstract Presenters.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Basic: Basic 2
  • Kidney: Kidney Living Donor
  • Liver: Liver 2
  • Infectious Disease: Infectious Disease 2
Virtual Sponsor Lounge Networking

7:30-8:30 PM ET

Break

8:30-8:45 PM ET

Expert VIP Meet-Up

8:45-9:30 PM ET

Live Video Presentations with Live Video Question & Answers.  Limited Audience Size to 50 People.

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Kidney: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Clinical Risk Assessment Equations and Scores
  • Liver: When Does the Recipient Cross the Line?
  • Liver: Risk Prediction in Low-MELD Patients - What is the Best Personalized Therapeutic Approach?
  • Pediatric & Liver: Pediatric Liver Re-transplantation: Indications, Surgical Techniques and Outcomes
  • Lung: It's a Small World:The Microbiome, Lung Disease, and Lung Transplantation
  • Professional Development: AJT - Looking Under the Hood of High Impact Research: From Idea to AJT Publication
  • Infectious Disease: Preventing Fungal Infections after Transplantation
  • Public Policy: Implementing Successful Outreach and Telemedicine Programs in Transplantation: Breaking Down the Barriers
  • Other: Bringing Living Donor Programs into the XXI Century: Incorporating Social Media to Enhance Living Donation
  • Professional Development: Can Improved Cultural Competence, and Tools for Conflict Resolution Reduce Physician Burnout in Transplantation?
  • Women's Health: Now or Later? Timing Pregnancy and Transplantation
  • Advanced Practice Provider: Stuck in the Middle: The Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
  • Ethics: Amplifying the Patient’s Voice in Transplant Research and Care: Guidance on Using Patient Reported Outcomes in Your Work
  • Other: The New Age Transplantation Professional
  • Other: Write Better Research Grants: Tips from the Other Side

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Welcome

8:45-9:00 AM ET

IMPACT Sessions

9:00-10:00 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Small Bowel: When is Multivisceral Tansplant Indicated and When Can it be Avoided
  • Lung & Liver: Lung and Liver Transplant in the Era of CFTR Modulator Therapies
  • Pancreas: Broader Distribution of Pancreata Should Require Fewer Pancreas Transplant Programs
  • Pediatric & Kidney: Biomarkers of Immune Status after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation - the Yin/Yang of Rejection versus Infection
  • Basic: Non-HLA Antibodies and Graft Rejection
  • Translational: Novel Imaging Techniques for Allorejection
  • Other: The Hidden Threat of Pulmonary Hypertension in Solid Organ Transplant Patients
  • Small Bowel: Intestine Transplant: Strategies to Manage Disease Recurrence and Failure to Thrive
  • Administrative: The Role of the US Federal Government in Solid Organ Transplantation
  • Women's Health: Emerging Hot Topics in Pregnancy and Transplant
Break

10:00-10:30 AM ET

Controversies in Transplanation

10:30-11:30 AM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Topic & Session Titles:

  • Public Policy: Processes to Assure Referral of Patients with End Stage Organ Disease for Transplant Evaluation
  • Basic: Self-tolerance vs. Islet Transplantation
Break

11:30AM-12:00PM ET

What's Hot; What's New

12:00-12:45 PM ET

Pre-recorded Presentations w/Live Video Question & Answers

Multiple Topics. Presentation on that Highlights the Best in Basic & Clinical ATC 2021 Virtual Connect Abstracts.

Closing Remarks

12:45-1:00 PM ET