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Scientific Programme 2026

Wednesday 21st January 2026
SESSION: FROM HARVEST TO HEALING: THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS OF TRANSPLANT SUCCESS
Moderator and Young Investigator
	(20 min talk and 10 min Q&Amp;A)
16.00–16.30	Death, Reanimated: Global Challenges and UK experience in TA-NRP from cradle to maturity,	Louise Kenny Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
16.30–17.00	Donor Lung Procurement and Preservation – Available Technologies and Future Applications	Matthew Hartwig Duke University, Durham, North Caroline, USA
17.00–17.30	Balancing Hearts and Budgets: Transplant Medicine at the Crossroads of Economics and Individual Care	Martin Strueber Memphis, Tennessee
17.30–18.00	Coffee Break
SESSION: FASCINATING FAILURES AND SURPRISING SUCCESSES
Abstract submission deadline 01/12/2025Moderator and Young Investigator
	(10 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
	18.00–18.15 When the Airway Vanishes: A Post-Transplant Dilemma	Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA
	18.15–18.30 Precutaneous RVAD as bridge to transplant for ARVC post RV disarticulation	Clive Lewis, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
	18.30–18.45 TBC	TBC
	18.45–19.00 TBC	TTBC
	19.00–19.15 TBC	TBC
	19.15–19.30 TBC	TBC
Thursday 22nd January 2026
SESSION: MULTIMODAL STRATEGIES FOR GRAFT OPTIMIZATION: SURGICAL PRECISION, IMMUNE CONTROL AND PHYSIOLOGIC UNDERSTANDING
Moderator and Young Investigator
	(15 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
16.00–16.20	High Stakes, Higher Gains? Reconsidering Bronchial Artery Reservation in modern Lung Transplant	Christian Moeller, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
16.20–16.40	The Value of Extracorporeal Photopheresis as an Immunosuppression-Modifying Approach in Solid Organ Transplantation: a Potential Solution to an Unmet Need	Speaker TBC,
16.40–17.00	Physiology in Focus: ScanCLAD Extended Follow-Up and Its Impact on Donor Graft outcomes	Göran Dellgren, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
17.00–17.30	Business Meeting
17.30–18.00	Coffee break
SESSION: EXTENDING THE WINDOW: MEDICAL AND MECHANICAL STRATEGIES TO DELAY TRANSPLANTATION
Moderator and Young Investigator
	(15 min talk and 5 min Q&A)
18.00–18.20	Optimizing Lung Transplant Timing in Pulmonary Hypertension: Insights from the Latest WSPH Treatment Algorithm	Göran Rådegran, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
18.20–18.40	Mechanical Support for the Systemic RV: From Rare to Remarkable	Louise Kenny, Freeman hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
18.40–19.00	Beyond the pump: Understanding Improved Outcomes on The Berlin Heart	Emma Simpson, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
19.00–19.30	Session: WERNER ZUBER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Introduction: Paul Corris
	Beyond the Limits – Mountain Medicine Pushing the Extreme	Hermann Brugger, Associate Professor Emeritus Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, Founder and Former Head of Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, Past President International Society for Mountain Medicine ISMM
Friday 23rd January 2026
SESSION: TRANSPLANT ANESTHESIA AND ORGAN INTERPLAY: NAVIGATING THE HEART, LIVER, KIDNEY AND THE TEAM
Moderator and Young Investigator
	(20 min talk and 10 min Q&A)
16.00–16.30	Double transplant, double challenge: anaesthetic management in heart and liver transplant	Gert-Jan Eerdekens, UZ Leuven, Belgium
16.30–16.50	“Navigating Acute Kidney Injury after Transplant: The Battle Between Volume, Diuretics and Dialysis	Jim Egan, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
16.50–17.15	Evolving Burden of Diabetes After Heart Transplant: Predictive Factors and Outcome Implications	Kristjan Karason, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
17.15–17.30	Effective High Performance Teams and System, Simple not Easy!	Stephen Aboud, High Performance Manager Italian Rugby Federation
SESSION – PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator: TBC
17.30–18.00	The BLAD identity crisis: Donor or Recipient Norms? (Donor) Erik Verschuuren University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (Recipient) Merel Hellemons, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
18.00–18.20	Coffee break
18.20–19.30	Session: Young Investigators Award (8 min. talk and 2 min Q&A) Abstract submission deadline 01/12/2025
Moderator TBC
	18.20–18.30 Serum Biomarkers for CLAD Risk Stratification After Lung Transplantation	Mirza Novo, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
	18.30–18.40Noradrenaline donor support and outcomes in heart transplant: real world experience from a large tertiary centre	Domenico Parigino University of Bari, Bari, Italy
	18.40–18.50 Changing dynamics of donor lungs and lung transplant in the pre- and post-COVID-19 era	Alex Cornea Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
	18.50–19.00 Incidence, predictors, and comes following primary graft dysfunction of the heart transplant	Isabella Lepore Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
	19.00–19.10 Pulmonary haemodynamic responses to iNO following heart transplant: insight from a porcine model	Klaes Van Lenbroch Aarhus university Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
	19.10–19.20 Sympathetic reinnervation in cardiac transplant recipients: prevalence, time course in association with long term survival	Oliver Weiner, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
	19.20–19.30 Does donor age ≥70 versus <70 affect lung transplantation outcomes?	Emily Ogren Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden