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
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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 |