Program

11th Annual Winter Symposium
Making Rational Immunosuppression Decisions for the Individual Patient
February 15 – 18, 2007
Phoenix, Arizona

Program Chairs:
Roslyn B. Mannon, MD, Anthony M. Jevnikar, MD, and Barbara Murphy, MD

Thursday, February 15, 2007
5:30 PM	Exhibit Preview
6:30 PM	Welcome Remarks Roslyn B. Mannon, MD
6:45 PM	Public Policy in Transplantation: What Are the Needs and What is AST Doing? Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD
7:15 PM	Welcome Reception

Friday, February 16, 2007
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	State-of-the-Art Lecture Patient Specific Immunosuppressive Therapy: Realistically Using Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Genomics in the 21st Century Bruce Kaplan, MD
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Organ Specific Outcomes with Current Immunosuppression Chairs: Hugo R. Rosen, MD and Joren C. Madsen, MD, DPhil
8:30 AM	Kidney Anthony M. Jevnikar, MD
8:50 AM	Liver Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD
9:10 AM	Heart Maryl R. Johnson, MD
9:30 AM	Lung Mark L. Barr, MD
9:50 AM	Discussion
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM	Managing Immunosuppression in Challenging Patients Chairs: Barbara Murphy, MD and Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD
10:30 AM	Immunosuppression and Creating New Diabetes: Analysis of the Current State of Affairs Donald E. Hricik, MD
10:50 AM	The Elderly Patient Gabriel M. Danovitch, MD
11:10 AM	Hepatitis A-Z in Liver Transplant Hugo R. Rosen, MD
11:30 AM	Hepatitis A-Z in Kidney Transplant Norah A. Terrault, MD, MPH
11:45 AM	Recurrent Disease: To Do or Not to Do! Flavio Vincenti, MD
12:00 PM	Discussion
12:30 PM	Adjourn

Saturday, February 17, 2007
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM	State-of-the-Art Lectures: Malignancy and Immunosuppression Chair: Anthony M. Jevnikar, MD
8:30 AM	Basic Science: Cancer Pathogenesis in Organ Transplantation: PTEN and mTOR Phillip A. Dennis, MD, PhD
9:15 AM	Clinical Science: Drug Impact on Cancer Outcomes in Solid Organ Transplantation Bertram L. Kasiske, MD
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM – 12:00 AM	Unique Challenges to Induction Strategies Chairs: Adriana Zeevi, PhD and Roslyn B. Mannon, MD
10:00 AM	The Cancer Survivor Robert S. Gaston, MD
10:20 AM	Induction Strategies in Pediatric Transplantation William E. Harmon, MD
10:40 AM	Does Race Matter? Winfred Williams, MD
11:00 AM	The Sensitized Patient: Is One Therapy More Effective than Another? James M. Gloor, MD
11:20 AM	Epstein-Barr Virus Mismatch Atul Humar, MD, MSC
11:40 AM	Discussion
12:00 PM	Adjourn

Sunday, February 18, 2007
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM	Rational Drug Selection Chairs: Richard N. Fine, MD and Geraldine G. Miller, MD
8:00 AM	State-of-the-Art Lecture Predicting and Monitoring Drug Therapy: Does Genomics Have the Answers We Need? Gilbert J.Burckart, PharmD
8:30 AM	Who Needs Calcineurin Inhibitors? Donald E. Hricik, MD
8:50 AM	Who Needs Rapamycin? Barbara Murphy, MD
9:10 AM	Has the Steroid Era Passed? Douglas J. Norman, MD
9:30 AM	Discussion
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM – 11:40 AM	The Crisis of Chronic Graft Injury: Evaluating Therapeutic Options Chairs: Bryan N. Becker, MD and Anthony M. Jevnikar, MD
10:00 AM	Kidney Roslyn B. Mannon, MD
10:20 AM	Lung Mark L. Barr, MD
10:40 AM	Heart Mandeep R. Mehra, MD
11:00 AM	Liver Michael R. Lucey, MD
11:20 AM	Discussion
11:40 AM	Symposium Summary:Perspectives from the Winter Symposium 2007 Flavio Vincenti, MD, President Elect AST
12:10 PM	Adjourn

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