Thursday, September 28, 2023
Please note, this program is subject to change. Check this website for regular updates.
Photo gallery: a preliminary overview of chairs & speakers.
Opening
Room: Regio 2
10:00 – 10:30
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Opening and Directors’ report Prof. Dr. Dirk van Raemdonck, Chair, Eurotransplant Supervisory Board |
Heart/Lung (Users) meeting
Room: Regio 1
10:45 – 12:15
Chair: Prof. Dr. Günther Laufer
| 10:45 – 10:50 | Introduction Prof. Dr. Günther Laufer, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Austria |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | Heart refurbishment, current practices, and future goals Katrien Vandendriessche, PhD, Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, Belgium |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Lung refurbishment, current practices, and future goals PD Dr. Achim Koch, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Transplantation from donation after euthanasia, numbers, legislation, and results Prof. Dr. med. Vincent Tchana-Sato, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Belgium |
| 12:05 – 12:15 | Closing remarks Prof. Dr. Günther Laufer, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Austria |
Registry meeting
Room: Regio 2
10:45 – 12:15
Chair: Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriela Berlakovich
| 10:45 – 11:15 | The hurdles and necessities of datasharing in the international community, the Spanish perspective Dr. Elisabeth Coll Torres, Medical Director Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, Spain |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Best practices for achieving high data completeness Mr. Bruno Desschans, Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, Belgium |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Data Services, fact figures and the future Mr. Remco van Vliet, Eurotransplant, the Netherlands |
Lunch break
Restaurant Nest
12:15 – 13:15
General Assembly
Room: Regio 2
13:15 – 15:15
Chair: Prof. Dr. Günther Laufer
| 13:15 – 13:20 | Opening |
| 13:20 – 13:35 | Elections of one member A of the Council of Medicine and Science and the Chair of the Eurotransplant General Assembly |
| 13:35 – 14:45 | Report on achievements and goals of the Eurotransplant Advisory Committees By the chairs of the Eurotransplant Advisory Committees |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Announcement and presentation of the winner of the Eurotransplant Jon van Rood Award 2023 |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Announcement elections results |
| 15:10 – 15:15 | Closing remarks |
Coffee/tea break
Break area
15:15 – 15:45
Heart/Lung (Auditors) meeting
Room: Regio 1
15:45 – 17:15
Chair: Prof. Dr. Jan Gummert
| 15:45 – 15:50 | Introduction Prof. Dr. Jan Gummert, Klinik f. Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein Westfalen Universität, Germany |
| 15:50 – 16:15 | Highly sensitized thoracic patients, how to deal with them Prof. Dr. Med. Teresa Kauke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany |
| 16:15 – 16:40 | Updated criteria for HU heart transplant candidates on short term support device Prof. Christian Schulze, Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology at the University Hospital Jena, Germany |
| 16:40 – 17:05 | Updated criteria for HU heart transplant candidates with a Box C ‘Other’ indication Michael Berchtold-Herz, M.D., Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany |
| 17:05 – 17:15 | Closing remarks Prof. Dr. Jan Gummert, Klinik f. Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein Westfalen Universität, Germany |
Kidney/Pancreas meeting
Room: Regio 2
15:45 – 17:15
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Michael Fischereder and PD Dr. Christian Margreiter
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Innovating strategies in creating immediate dialysis access Prof. Gürkan Sengölge, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Austria |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Pancreas and Kidney Transplant Outcome Predictor Prof. Dr. Volker Aβfalg, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Germany |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | Producing beta cells that are invisible to the patient’s immune system by HLA- silencing Prof. Dr. Caner Süsal, Koç Üniversitesi Hastanesi, Türkiye |
Data Science in Allocation
Room: Regio 5
15:45 – 17:15
Chair: Prof. Dr. Frederik Nevens
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Evaluating alternative prioritization rules for MELD exception candidates with the ETLAS Simulator Hans de Ferrante, MSc., Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands |
| 16:30 – 17:05 | Computational Approach to Designing Organ Allocation: The US Perspective Dr. Michal Mankowski, Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, United States of America |
| 17:05 – 17:15 | Allocating deceased donor kidneys to kidney paired donation programs – a simulation study Roby Cremers, PhD student, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
Plenary session
Room: Regio 2
17:30 – 19:15
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk van Raemdonck
| 17:30 – 18:00 | No mortality on the heart waitlist Prof. Dr. Ivan Knezevic, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Cryoperfusion of donor kidneys – The next big thing in organ preservation? Cyril Moers MD, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands |
| 18:30 – 19:15 | Laudatio |
Networking event
Ozzo
19:30 – 23:30
| 19:30 – 21:00 | Dinner |
| 21:00 – 23:30 | Balderdash Coverband |