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Scientific Programme 2025

Wednesday 22nd January 2025
SESSION: BEHIND THE CLINICAL TRANSPLANT SCENE - FRAMEWORK AND POLICIES
Moderator: tbd
	(20 min talk and 10 min Q&A)
16.00–16.30	Eliminating inequities in access to advanced heart failure therapies - past, present and future,	tbc
16.30–17.00	Cost effectiveness of VAD in Europe - invisible barriers?	Filip Zemrak Barts, London, UK
17.00–17.30	Review of the anatomy of the lawsuit that changed the allocation policy in 2017	Josh Sonett Colombia University, New York, USA
17.30–18.00	Coffee Break
SESSION: FASCINATING FAILURES AND SURPRISING SUCCESSES
Moderator: tbc
	(10 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
	18.00–18.15 Percutaneous RVAD as bridge to transplant for ARVC post RV disarticulation	Clive Lewis Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
	18.15–18.30 tbc	tbc
	18.30–18.45 tbc	tbc
	18.45–19.00 tbc	tbc
	19.00–19.15 tbc	tbc
	19.15–19.30 tbc	tbc
Thursday 23rd January 2025
SESSION: NOVEL TECHNIQUES IN THE TRANSPLANT JOURNEY
Moderator: tbc
	(15 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
16.00–16.20	The value of extracorporeal photopheresis as an immunosuppression-modifying approach in solid organ transplantation: a potential solution to an unmet need	tbc,
16.20–16.40	Novel biomarkers to evaluate organ preservation and rejection	tbc,
16.40–17.00	Partial Heart Transplantation – new option, new needs?	Joseph Turek, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
17.00–17.30	Business Meeting
17.30–18.00	Coffee break
SESSION: PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND THE RIGHT HEART
Moderator: tbc
	(15 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
18.00–18.20	PAH & Transplant selection - Getting it right or is it ever possible?	Arun Nair, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
18.20–18.40	A single cannula RAVA-ECMO - a novel solution for PH patients as bridge to lung transplant	Yaron Barac, Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel
18.40–19.00	Primary isolated right heart failure post-heart transplantation – how to improve outcomes?	Francisca Caetano Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
19.00–19.30	Session: WERNER ZUBER MEMORIAL LECTURE
	19.00–19.30 tbc	tbc,
Friday 24th January 2025
SESSION: ORGAN RECOVERY AND PERFUSION
Moderator: tbc
	(20 min talk and 10 min Q&A)
16.00–16.30	Removing the resource burden form the lung transplant centres – centralizing EVLP in Europe	tbc
16.30–17.00	Hypothermic Oxygenated PErfusion of the heart: HOPE for children	Louise Kenny, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
17.00–17.30	DCD lung transplantation in children	Glen Westall Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
SESSION – OPEN DEBATE
17.30–18.00	Heart and/or lung transplant should be offered to…
18.00–18.30	Coffee break
18.30–19.30	Session: Young Investigators Award (8 min. talk and 2 min Q&A)
	18.30–18.40 tbc	tbc
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	18.50–19.00 tbc	tbc
	19.00–19.10 tbc	tbc
	19.10–19.20 tbc	tbc
	19.20–19.30 tbc	tbc