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Agenda & Topics
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DAY 1:
Thursday 4/19/2007
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7:00 AM
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST /
REGISTRATION / EXHIBITS
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7:30 AM
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Welcoming Remarks and
Conference Objectives |
| Conference Chair –
Jeffrey Punch, MD, FACS |
Opening Remarks
Robert M. Mentzer, Jr., MD
Dean – Wayne State University School of Medicine |
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7:45 AM
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LACK OF ORGAN DONORS
Promoting increased organ donation across the world
Moderator: George Abouna, MD, MS,
FACS
Drexel University
The Easy and
Difficult Ways the European Countries are Overcoming the Organ Shortage
Wojtek Rowiński, MD, PhD
Department of General and Transplantation Surgery
Warsaw Medical School
Jeffrey Punch, MD, FACS – University of
Michigan
Hospital
Dilip Samar,
Beaumont Hospital
Topics to include: Increasing non-living donor families, increasing living
donation, using donor families (both living and non living) to increase
donation rates.
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8:30 AM
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ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN ORGAN DONATION / TRANSPLANT TOURISM
Moderator: Scott A. Gruber, MD,
PhD
Wayne State
University School
of Medicine
Harper University
Hospital
Panel:
Wojtek
Rowinski
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Buying and Selling Organs -
black markets in Pakistan,
Brazil,
South Africa, etc.
Riadh Fadhil, MD, PhD
Hamad Medical Corporation
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Organ Transplantation: Medical & Human
Rights in China
Wenyi Wang, MD, PhD -
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Legal,
Ethical and Medical Rights in Organ Transplantation
David Kilgour
Former Secretary of State Asia Pacific
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10:00 AM
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A Regulated System of Living Donor
Sales
An Ethical Solution to the Organ Shortage
Arthur Matas,
MD, FACS
University of
Minnesota
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10:30 AM
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BREAK / EXHIBITS
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10:45 AM
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HEALTH CARE
How
Transplant Helps to Reduce Health Care Costs
Panelist
Tom Beyersdorf – Executive Director,
Gift of Life
Michigan
Richard Pietroski – Executive Director, Gift of Life
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11:30 AM
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LUNCH / EXHIBITS
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12:30 PM
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EXHIBIT DEMONSTRATIONS
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1:00 PM
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Solutions to the Organ Shortage
Marwan Abouljoud,
MD,
FACC
Henry Ford
Hospital
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1:20 PM
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First Person Consent
Rich Pietrowski
Associate Executive Director, Gift of Life Michigan
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1:35 PM
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Cord
Blood: An Alternative Source of Stem Cells
Voravit Ratanatharathorn, MD, F.A.C.P
Karmanos Cancer Institute
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1:55 PM
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ECD and DCD
Increasing use of Extended Criteria Donors (ECD)
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Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD)
George
Abouna, MD
Drexel University
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2:25 PM
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Paired-Donation
Live Unrelated Kidney Transplantation New
Technologies and Updates
Michael
Rees, MD, PhD
University of Toledo Medical Center
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2:55 PM
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BREAK / EXHIBITS
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3:10 PM
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Laparoscopic Right Donor Nephrectomy
Jihad Kaouk, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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3:40 PM
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Xenotransplantation
Animal Organs for Human Transplantation
Michael
Rees, MD, PhD
University of
Toledo
Medical Center
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4:10 PM
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THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE SERIES
Global Transplantation Updates
Learn about the international approach and the growing statistical support
for change in practices
Moderator: Jade Perdue, MPA
HRSA, Division of Transplantation
U.S.
Donation and Transplantation Collaborative Success to Date, Lessons Learned
Along the Way
Jade K. Perdue, M.P.A.
Public Health Analyst
Division of Transplantation
Australian Collaborative
Marcia Coleman, Chairman
Australians Donate
National Peak Body for Organ & Tissue Donation for Transplantation
Canadian Collaborative
Kimberly Young, Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation (CCDT)
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4:55 PM
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ADJOURN / EXHIBITS
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DAY 2:
Friday, 4/20/2007
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8:00 AM
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST / EXHIBITS
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8:30 AM
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Opening Remarks
Conference Chair -
Jeffrey Punch, MD, FACS
President & CEO, IAOD - Fouad
Beydoun, PhD
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8:45 AM
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Stem Cell Transplantation
Joseph Uberti, MD, PhD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Karmanos Cancer Institute
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9:15 AM
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Cancer
Incidence Before and After Kidney Transplantation
Claire
Vajdic, PhD
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and
Clinical Research,
University
of New South Wales
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9:45 AM
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Advances in Immunosuppression of Organ
Transplantation
Rudolph Valentini, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Children’s Hospital of
Detroit
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10:05 AM
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Liver Transplantation as a Treatment
for Malignancy
Jeffrey Punch, MD,
FACS
University of
Michigan
Hospital
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10:25 AM
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BREAK / EXHIBITS
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10:40 AM |
Imaging for Live Donor Liver
Transplantation
Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS
Lahey Clinic |
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11:10 AM |
THE FUTURE OF TRANSPLANTATION
Moderator:
Scott Gruber, MD, PhD
Composite Tissue Transplantation
Darla Granger, MD,
FACS
St. John
Hospital
Islet Cell Transplantation
Randall Sung, MD
University of Michigan
Hospital
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11:55 AM
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ADJOURNMENT
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12:30 PM –
4:30 PM
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AREA
TOURS
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5:30 PM
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GENERAL RECEPTION
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6:00 PM
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CELEBRATING LIFE AFTER TRANSPLANT GALA
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