2020 TSANZ Annual Scientific Meeting
Program
Adelaide Convention Centre
22 – 24 March 2020
Sunday 22 March
1400-1500 Registration
1500-1510 Official Opening: TSANZ President Toby Coates
1510-1540 Plenary 1: CAR-Tregs to induce transplantation tolerance Megan Levings
1545-1645 Free Communications 1 (concurrent sessions x 3)
1645-1700 Afternoon Tea
1700-1800 Josette Eris & Ian McKenzie Award Lectures
1700-1720 Ian McKenzie Award – Partnering with patients to address patient-important Allison Tong
outcomes in transplantation
1720-1800 Josette Eris Lecture To be delivered by –
Professor Brenda Wilson AM Lieutenant Governor of South Australia
1800-2100 Welcome Reception at the Mercury Cinema screening “Burden of Genius”
Monday 23 March
0615-0715 Fun run/walk – 5 km
0730-0800 Breakfast with sponsors
0800-0940 Plenary 2: Joint TSANZ /OTA/ATCA Session
0800-0830 New UK kidney allocation system Chris Watson
0830-0850 Update from the Organ Transplant Authority Lucinda Barry
0850-0910 Implementation of flow crossmatching for organ allocation in Australia Rob Carroll
0910-0925 ANZKX update Peter Hughes
0925-0940 ATCA Update Nigel Palk
0940-1040 Free Communications 2 (concurrent sessions x 3)
1040-1110 Morning Tea + Poster viewing
1110-1250 Plenary 3: Immunology
1110-1140 Liver transplant immunology Timucin Taner
1140-1210 Thymus-derived Tregs as an allogeneic cell therapy Megan Levings
1210-1230 The secret life of donor lungs: passenger cells and molecules transferred Greg Snell
with transplant
1230-1250 Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA for Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Post-Transplant Kiran Khush
Complications
1250-1335 Lunch + Poster viewing
1335-1535 President’s Prize Symposium
Chair: Toby Coates
4 x basic science
4 x clinical
1535-1600 Afternoon Tea
1600-1700 Free Communications 3 (concurrent sessions x 3)
1700-1800 Annual General Meeting
Adelaide
1900-2300 TSANZ Annual Dinner
Town Hall
Tuesday 24 March
0730-0800 Coffee with Sponsors
0800-0930 Plenary 4: Indigenous Transplantation Jaquelyne Hughes
0800 - 0830 National Indigenous Kidney Transplant Taskforce progress Sam Bateman /
0830 – 0900 Consumer Engagement in Indigenous transplantation Research Kelli Owen
(provisional) Alan Wigg
0900 – 0930 Liver Transplantation in Indigenous Australians
28 January 2020
0930-1030 Concurrent Session 1a: SOA 1. Antibodies and Infections
0930-0950 Viral Hepatitis infections in organ transplantation Marina Berenguer
0950-1010 TB risk assessment Alan Wigg
1010-1030 Utilisation of increased viral risk donors Angela Webster
0930-1030 Concurrent Session 1b: SOA 2. Obesity and Nutrition
0930-0950 Liver transplantation in obese recipients Timucin Taner
0950-1010 Non-surgical weight loss strategies in obese renal transplant candidates Anthony Meade
1010-1030 The role of bariatric surgery in the treatment of NASH Jacob Chisholm
1030-1100 Morning Tea
1100-1230 Concurrent Session 2a: SOA 3. Transplantation surgery
1100-1130 Liver transplantation in cholangiocarcinoma Timucin Taner
1130-1150 Robotic surgery Bulang He
1150-1210 Effects of donor hepatectomy and nephrectomy times on transplant Ina Jochmans
outcomes
1210-1230 Update on Pancreas Transplantation Henry Pleass
1100-1230 Concurrent Session 2b: SOA 4. Innovations
1100-1130 Donor Selection for Heart Transplantation: Changing Perceptions and Kiran Khush
Practices
1130-1200 3D printing and transplantation – separating fact from fantasy Jason Chuen
1200-1230 Subcutaneous Islet Cell Transplantation Toby Coates
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1500 Plenary 5: Perfusion and donor management
1330-1400 Normothermic regional perfusion and machine perfusion Chris Watson
1400-1430 Kidney machine perfusion Ina Jochmans
1430-1500 The Spanish miracle in organ donation: myth or reality? Marina Berenguer
1500-1525 Afternoon Tea
1525 -1600 The Great Debate: “Stem cell technology will make organ donation redundant within Pro: Megan
10 years” Levings and
Janina
Kaczmarcyzk
Con: TBA
1600 ASM Concludes
28 January 2020