International Liver Symposium Programme

We would like to invite all trainees, international fellows, researchers and all other colleagues who have contributed to 5000 Liver Transplants and 30 years of Liver Research success, to get together, share our experiences and discuss the future of liver transplantation and liver research in a scientific forum.

The Royal College of Physicians has approved this event for 14 CPD credits.

  Tuesday 5th September
 10:30  Registration and Refreshments
Session 1
Chairs:
Mr John Isaac, Clinical Service Lead, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Dr Scott Russell, Consultant Anaesthetist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
 11:30  Welcome: Mr Thamara Perera, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital 
 11:35  Introduction on behalf of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
 Dame Julie Moore DBE, Chief Executive, University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT
 11:40  Introduction of behalf of Birmingham Children’s Hospital
 Sarah-Jane Marsh,  Chief Executive, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHSFT
 11:45 The Birmingham Liver Unit: Professor Stefan Hübscher, Leith Professor and Professor of Hepatic Pathology, University of Birmingham
 12:05  Keynote Lecture: How Liver Surgery entered into the field of liver Transplantation 
 Professor Henri Bismuth, Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris
 12:40  Lunch and Posters
Session 2
Chairs:
Dr Ahmed El Sharkawy, Consultant Hepatologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Peter Bromley, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
 13:40 Donation after cardiac death: from  past and present, to the future: Professor Paolo Muiesan, Consultant  Transplant Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
14:00   The evolution of immunosuppression in liver transplantation : Professor Giuseppe Tisone, University Tor Vergata,Rome
14:20  The marginal recipient: Dr Nick Murphy, Consultant Intensivist,  Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
14:40  Navigation systems in liver surgery: Professor Daniel Candinas, Vice-Rector for Research,Director Department of Visceral Surgery and  Medicine, Bern  University Hospital
 15:00 Refeshments and Posters 
Session 3
Chairs:
Dr Andy Holt, Consultant Hepatologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Professor Deirdre Kelly, Professor of Hepatology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
 15:30  VAP-1 from bench to bedside: Professor David Adams  Pro Vice Chancellor, Head of College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Dean of  Medicine, University of  Birmingham
 15:50  Paediatric metabolic liver disease: Professor Patrick McKiernan, Professor of Paediatrics, Director of Hepatology, Pittsburgh Children’s  Hospital
 16:10  Stem Cells and Scaffolds: Dr Paul Gissen, Senior Lecturer, University College London
 16:30  Liver Unit pioneer talk: Adult Transplantation, Professor John Buckels 
 19:00 Celebration Dinner: International Convention Centre , Birmingham: After dinner speaker Mr David Mayer
 Wednesday 6th September
Session 4
Chairs:
Dr Tahir Shah, Consultant Hepatologist
Mr Khalid Sharif, Clinical Service Lead, Paediatric Transplant Surgeon, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
 08:50  Preoperative assessment from an anaesthetist’s point of view: Dr James Prentis, Consultant Anaesthetist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle 
 09:10  Advances in paediatric immunosuppression: Professor Ulli Baumann, Professor of paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology, University  of Hannover
 09:30  How do we turn genetic discoveries into new treatments to prevent liver disease?  Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Professor of Internal  Medicine, Oslo University Hospital:
 09:50  Liver Unit pioneer talk– Paediatric Liver Transplantation:
 Professor Deirdre Kelly, Professor of Hepatology, Birmingham Children’s  Hospital
 10:20  Refreshments and Posters
Session 5
Chairs:
Professor Stefan Hubscher, Leith Professor of Pathology, University of Birmingham
Professor Ben-Hur Ferraz-Neto, Brazilian Transplant Society, Sāo Pulo, Brazil
 11:00 Transitional care of paediatric post-transplant patients –challenges for the future:  Dr James Ferguson, Consultant Hepatologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
 11:20  How to stop the Liver Scarring: Dr Jonathan Fallowfield, Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Edinburgh
 11:40  Transplantation for Viral Hepatitis: Professor David Mutimer, Professor of Clinical Hepatology, University of Birmingham
 12:00  Liver Unit pioneer talk: Transplant Hepatology, Professor Elwyn Elias
 12:20  Lunch and Posters
Session 6
Chairs:
Professor Phil Newsome, Professor of Experimental Hepatology, University of Birmingham
Professor Julian Bion, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Birmingham
 13:30 Tolerance in intestinal transplantation: Professor Jacques Pirenne, Transplant surgeon, University Hospital Leuven 
 13:50  What’s next in liver research? Professor Gideon Hirschfield, Professor of Autoimmmune Liver Disease, University of Birmingham
 14:10  What’s next in transplant Hepatology? Professor Patrizia Burra, Head of the Multivisceral Transplant Unit Padova University Hospital
 14:30  What’s next in transplant surgery? Professor Darius Mirza, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham & Birmingham Children’s Hospital
 14:50  Refreshments and Posters
Session 7
Chairs:
Professor Darius Mirza, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Queen  Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham & Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Dr Girish Gupte, Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Dr Homoyon Mehrzad, Consultant Radiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
 15:20  Development of normothermic liver perfusion: Professor Peter Friend,  Oxford Transplant Centre 
 15:45  Organ donation - challenges for the Future: National allocation system of liver grafts: Professor Professor John O'Grady, Consultant Hepatologist, Kings College London
 16:10  Award of poster prizes 
 16:30  Keynote speech, The Last Word: Professor Paul McMaster
 17:15  Concluding Remarks: Mr John Isaac, Clinical Service Lead, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 
 17:30  Drinks reception in the Medical School

Programme subject to change