UCL EVENT: Breaking the Mould - New Approaches to Tackle Organ Shortage in Liver Transplant

 

Please Join us from 8:00am  for FREE breakfast and hot coffee/tea lasting till 12:15 

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Topics to include:

• Split Livers for Adults - two for one?
• Matching virology positive grafts and patients
• Domino liver grafts - the Amyloidosis experience

Free Breakfast from 8:00am

 

8:30am Welcome Cheif Executive RFL - David Sloman

 

Session One: 

8:45  What is a marginal liver transplant: Prof Brian Davidson, UCL

9:00 Audience Opinions - Initial Questions

 

Session Two: Chaired by Linda Selves and Charles Imber

Splitting Livers - sharing the resource - for children and adults

9:10 Benefit to Children: Paolo Muiesan, Birmingham

9:25 Risks to the adult: Dinesh Sharma, UCL

9:40 UK data:  NHSBT perspective Claire Counter, NHSBT

9:55 - 10:10 Discussion – (Coffee Pick Up and Chat)

 

Session Three: Chaired by Doug Thorburn

Infected Liver Grafts

10:15 CMV infected donor grafts Paul Griffiths, UCL

10:30 hepatitis-infected donor grafts David Patch

10:45 HIV infected grafts Sanjay Bhagani

11:00 – 11 15 Discussion – (Coffee Pick Up and Chat)

 

Session Four:  Chaired by David Patch 

Amyloidosis

11:15 Amyloidosis and benefits of transplantation Phillip Hawkins

11 30 Amyloid donor grafts in liver transplantation Rahul Koti

11 45 New horizons in liver transplantation – Better Immune Surveillance Lyn Ambrose

 

Session 5 : 12:00   Straw Poll Chaired by Linda Selves,  Amir Gander, Barry Fuller

12:00 – 12:15 Now You have Heard the Evidence – Discussions and Voting

12:15 Close