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G.P.N. - Research & Transplantation Symposium - 2024
In-Person and Virtual attendance options available
Solid organ transplantation has rapidly developed over several decades to become the optimal treatment for patients suffering from end stage organ failure, offering excellent quantity and quality of life. This progress has been possible through the combined and tireless efforts of basic, translational and clinical scientists. Every year brings further developments from bench to bedside to improve multi-disciplinary transplant patient care. This symposium brings together local, national and global experts in transplantation science to educate attendees about the latest research in their fields.
Conference Highlights
• Broadening Horizons: Innovative Strategies to Expand the Donor Pool
• Biomarker Breakthroughs: Enhancing Outcomes in Clinical Transplantation
• Innovative Immunosuppression: New Frontiers in Transplant Tolerance
FEES
IN-PERSON | FEE |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area)* | $220 |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area) (NO CME Option)** | Complimentary (Click here to register) |
Physician (Private physician located outside the Greater Houston Area) | Complimentary |
Physician (HM Physicians, including MPAQ and ACO PCPs) | Complimentary |
Allied Health Care Professionals (HM and external) | Complimentary |
Residents / Fellows / Students | Complimentary |
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VIRTUAL | FEE |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area)* | $220 |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area) (NO CME Option)** | Complimentary (Click here to register) |
Physician (Private physician located outside the Greater Houston Area) | $50 |
Physician (HM Physicians, including MPAQ and ACO PCPs) | $50 |
Allied Health Care Professionals (HM and external) | $20 |
Residents / Fellows / Students | $20 |
* In compliance with HM’s policy on Physician Non-Monetary Compensation regarding “Stark Law,” private physicians who reside and/or practice medicine within the Greater Houston Area are required to pay the full Fair Market Value registration fee.
**Private physicians located within the Greater Houston Area may attend this activity in-person or virtually for no fee, but will not receive CME credit.
Target Audience
The George P. Noon Conference Series is designed for nephrologists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, hepatologists, pulmonologists, pathologists, internists, oncologists, physicians treating patients with organ failure, nurses, family practitioners, social workers and allied health professionals with an interest in organ failure transplant management.
Learning Objectives
- Identify new frontiers in transplant research in areas of bioengineering, targeted Cellular Therapies, and transplant Tolerance
- Interpret mechanisms of chronic acute rejection in lung transplant by modeling environmental stress
- Evaluate chromatin remodeling and Antigen-Specific Effector CD8+ T Cells in Transplantation
- Classify a single-cell approach to Dissecting Transplant Rejection
| TIME | PRESENTATION | SPEAKER(S) |
| 7:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:00 AM | Leadership Welcome | R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS (Ed) |
| 8:10 AM | Conference Introduction | Ashton A. Connor, MD, PhD |
| Plenary Session I: New Advances in Expanding Access to Transplantation Moderators: Wenhao Chen, PhD; Khush Patel, MD, MS | ||
| 8:20 AM | Liver machine perfusion & graft optimization | Mark Hobeika, MD |
| 8:45 AM | Turning Drought into Deluge: Broadening the Donor Pool for Sensitized Patients | Paul Schroder, MD, PhD |
| 9:05 AM | Expanding Indications For Access To Transplant From Primary and Secondary Liver Cancers | Maen Abdelrahim, MD |
| 9:25 AM | Stem Cells to Promote Allograft Acceptance | Omaima Sabek, PhD |
| 9:45 AM | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | |
| Plenary Session II: The Future of Biomarker Development: Insights from Genomic Research Moderators: Ashton Connor, MD, PhD; Stefano Casarin, MD | ||
| 10:15 AM | RhoA Inhibition for Chronic Rejection | Malgorzata Kloc, PhD |
| 10:40 AM | Single Cell RNA Sequencing in Kidney Transplantation | Stephanie Yi, MD, MPH, FACS |
| 11:00 AM | Tumor Sequencing in Liver Transplantation | Ashton Connor, MD, PhD, FRCSC |
| 11:20 AM | Genomics for Outcome Prediction | Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, MD |
| 11:40 AM | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 11:55 AM | Lunch | |
| Plenary Session III: Innovative Immunosuppression: New Frontiers in Transplant Tolerance Moderators: Ashton Connor, MD, PhD; Malgorzata Kloc, PhD | ||
| 12:55 PM | T cell stemness and Tolerance Resistance | Wenhao Chen, PhD |
| 1:20 PM | The Road to Tolerance | Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD |
| 1:40 PM | Advances in Tolerance and Kidney Transplant | Miguel Fribourg, PhD |
| 2:00 PM | Delayed Immune Tolerance & Bladder Transplantation | Nima Nassiri, MD |
| 2:20 PM | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 2:35 PM | Break | |
| Session IV: Bridging the Gap: Translating Transplant Research into Clinical Practice Moderators: Ashton Connor, MD, PhD, FRCSC | ||
| 2:50 PM | Multi-Center Trials in Lung Transplantation - It's About Time | Howard Huang, MD |
| 3:15 PM | Novel Diagnostics and Surveillance for Rejection in Heart Rejection | Ashrith Guha, MD |
| 3:35 PM | Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Bridging In Vivo Experiments and Computational Modeling for Heart Transplant Success | Stefano Casarin, PhD |
| 3:55 PM | Question and Answer Discussion | |
| 4:10 PM | Concluding Remarks | Xian C. Li, MD, PhD |
| 4:20 PM | Adjourn | |
LIVE (in-person attendance) will be held in the Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, Texas 77030).
LIVESTREAM information will be provided to registered learners.
| CONFERENCE DIRECTOR |
| R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS(ED) J.C. Walter Jr. Presidential Distinguished Chair Director, Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center Director, Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation Director, Immunobiology and Transplantation Sciences Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Full Member, Research Institute Houston Methodist |
| SCIENTIFIC PLANNING COMMITTEE |
| Ashton Connor, MD, Ph.D., FRCSC Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation, Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center |
| Xian Chang Li, MD, PhD Max and Lillie Frosch Centennial Chair in Transplant Research, Immunobiology & Transplant Science Center Professor of Transplant Immunology in Surgery, Academic Institute Full Member, Research Institute Director, Immunobiology & Transplant Science Center Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| GUEST SPEAKERS |
| Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD Sr. Investigator/Head, Alessandrini Laboratory, Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS) Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Director of the CTS Signaling Laboratory Immunologist, Surgery, Mass General Boston, Massachusetts |
| Miguel Fribourg, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology Translational Transplant Research Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York |
| Nima Nassiri, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Urology Program Director, UCLA Bladder Transplantation Program UCLA Kidney Transplantation University of California, Los Angeles |
| Jean-Nicholas Vauthey, MD MD Anderson Houston, Texas |
| HOUSTON METHODIST FACULTY |
| Maen Abdelrahim, MD, PhD, PharmB Associate Professor of Medicine, Academic Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Stefano Casarin, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Assistant Research Member, Research Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Wenhao Chen, PhD Associate Professor of Transplant Immunology in Surgery, Academic Institute Associate Member, Research Institute Hosuton Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Ashrith Guha, MD, MPH, FACC Blake and Roswell F. Vaughan III Centennial Chair, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center Associate Professor of Cardiology, Academic Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Mark J. Hobeika, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Associate Clinical Member, Research Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Howard J. Huang, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Academic Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Malgorzata Kloc, PhD Research Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Khush Patel, MD Data scientist Houston Methodist |
| Omaima Sabek, PhD Associate Research Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Paul M. Schroder, PhD, MD Kidney Transplant Surgery, Pediatric Pancreas Transplant Surgery, Transplant Surgery Houston Methodist |
| Stephanie Yi, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Assistant Clinical Member , Research Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College |
Available Credit
- 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Houston Methodist is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Houston Methodist designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.25 Attendance
- 6.25 Nursing Contact Hours
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Houston Methodist will award 6.25 Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours for this activity. Participants must attend the activity in its entirety and complete the continuing education evaluation.
- 6.25 Transplant CoordinatorsThe American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC) has assigned the following Continuing Education Points for Transplant Certification (CEPTCs) to the following Houston Methodist Transplant Center educational program: G.P.N. - Research & Transplantation Symposium - 2024 | Thu, 08/22/2024 - 8:00am | 6.25 Category 1 CEPTCs
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FEES
IN-PERSON | FEE |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area)* | $175 |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area) (NO CME Option)** | Complimentary (Click here to register) |
Physician (Private physician located outside the Greater Houston Area) | Complimentary |
Physician (HM Physicians, including MPAQ and ACO PCPs) | Complimentary |
Allied Health Care Professionals (HM and external) | Complimentary |
Residents / Fellows / Students | Complimentary |
|
|
VIRTUAL | FEE |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area)* | $175 |
Physician (Private physician located inside the Greater Houston Area) (NO CME Option)** | Complimentary (Click here to register) |
Physician (Private physician located outside the Greater Houston Area) | $50 |
Physician (HM Physicians, including MPAQ and ACO PCPs) | $50 |
Allied Health Care Professionals (HM and external) | $20 |
Residents / Fellows / Students | $20 |