Emory Transplant Center's Noon Symposium: 2006 Archive

The Transplant Center Seminar Series held in the Emory University School of Medicine Building, Room 110 is attended by transplant surgeons, internists, fellows, residents and nurses. In addition it is open to all School of Medicine faculty. This is a CME accredited program.

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Date	Speaker	Talk Topic
12/20/06-01/03/07	Winter Holiday Break
12/13/06	Leonard Hymes, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine	"Surveillance Renal Transplant Biopsies and Withdrawal Calcineurin Inhibitors"
12/06/06	Rene Romero, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine	"When Your Liver Makes You Blue: The Daignosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome"
11/29/06	Robert Duane Davis, Jr., MD Professor of Surgery Director of Transplantation Duke University	"Importance of non-alloimmune injury and innate pathway activation in chronic lung allograft dysfunction"
11/22/06	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/15/06	Peter Pappas, MD Professor of Medicine University of Alabama Birmingham	"Surveillance of fungal infections in transplant recipients: Review of TRANSNET dataset"
11/08/06	James Spivey, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Liver Transplantation Medical Director, Clinical Hepatology Emory University School of Medicine	"Advances in Hepatitis B Management"
11/01/06	Thomas C. Pearson, MD, DPhil Livingston Professor of Surgery Chief, Renal Transplantation Department of Surgery Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation Emory University	"Transplantation in 2006: Good News, Bad News, New News"
10/25/06	Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine Shands Hospital at the University of Florida	"Current State of the Art and New Trends after Kidney Transplantation"
10/18/06	Daniel R. Solomon, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation The Scripps Research Institute
10/11/06	Howard Gebel, PhD Co-Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Robert Bray, PhD Co-Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics	"Probability, Prediction, and PRA"
10/04/06	Thomas Gonwa, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine Mayo College of Medicine Chair, Department of Transplantation Mayo Clinic Jacksonville	"Combined Liver/Kidney Transplantation: Who Needs One and Why?"
09/27/06	Ron Shapiro, MD Professor of Surgery Director, Kidney, Pancreas, and Islet Transplantation Thomas E. Starlz Transplantation Institute University of Pittsburgh	"Alemtuzumab Preconditioning with Tacrolimus Monotherapy in Adult and Pediatric Renal Transplantation"
09/20/06	Robert S. Gaston, MD Professor of Medicine and Transplant Surgery Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation University of Alabama	"CKD and the Kidney Transplant Recipient"
09/13/06	Kenneth Newell, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Surgery Director, Living Donor Kidney Program Kidney Transplantation Emory University School of Medicine	"The Current Status of Living Kidney Donation"
05/31/06-09/06/06	Summer Break
05/24/06	Patricia Birk, MD, FRCP(C)* Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director Manitoba Pediatric Renal Transplant Program	"Lessons Learned From a Pediatric Protocol Renal Allograft Biopsy Program"
05/17/06	Kareem Abu-Elmagd, MD, PhD, FACS Professor of Surgery Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center University of Pittsburgh	"The Current Status of Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation"
05/10/06	Patricia Campbell, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory University of Alberta	"To Review the Role of HLA Antibodies in Islet Transplantation"
05/03/06	Manikkam Suthanthiran, MD Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine Chief, Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center	"A Real Time Protrait of Allograft Rejection"
04/26/06	Jyoti Somani, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Emory University School of Medicine	"Avian Influenza: What's the flap all about?"
04/19/06	Sudha Tata, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Emory University School of Medicine	"Liver-Kidney Transplantation"
04/12/06	Professor Dr. Massimo Malago The Ilse Bagel Chair of Surgery and Transplantation University of Duisburg-Essen Director of Transplantation & Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery	"Living Donor Liver Transplantation"
04/05/06	Greg Smallwood, Pharm D Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator Transplant Medicine and Surgery Emory University Hospital Pharmacy	"Hepatitis C Following Liver Transplantation"
03/29/06	Anthony M. D'Alessandro, MD Professor of Surgery Division of Transplantation Executive Director, University of Wisconsin Organ Procurement Organization	"DCD and ECD Transplantation: The University of Wisconsin Experience"
03/22/06	Martin Bunke, MD Medical Transplant Liaison Roche Pharmaceuticals	"Update on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring"
03/15/06	Koichi Tanaka, MD President Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation	"Recent Advances and What Remains to be Solved in Living Liver Transplantation"
03/08/06	Adrian Reuben, MBBS, FRCP, FACG Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Director of Liver Studies Medical University of South Carolina	"Risks of Surgery in Patients with Liver Disease"
03/01/06	Michael Green, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh	"Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease"
02/22/06	Kenneth Kokko, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine & Surgery Renal Division Emory University School of Medicine	"Vaccination of the Transplant Patient"
02/15/06	Rakesh Sindhi, MD Co-Director of Pediatric Transplantation Children's Hopsital of Pittsburgh	"Monitoring post-transplant drug requirement with lymphocyte function"
02/08/06	Varela Fascinetto, MD Chief, Transplantation Department Director, Liver Transplant Program Hospital Infintil de Mexico Federico Gomez	"Pediatric Transplantation, is it the same everywhere?"
02/01/06	Carlos Fasola, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Liver Transplant Program Emory University School of Medicine	"Hepatitis C post liver transplantation today"
01/25/06	Kenneth A. Newell, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Surgery Renal Transplant Division Emory University School of Medicine	"Tolerance Assays: Measuring the Unknown"
01/18/06	Andres Palaez, MD Assitant Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care McKelvey Lung Transplant Center Emory University School of Medicine	"Every donor is a lung donor too"
01/11/06	Martin S. Zand, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs University of Rochester Medical Center	"Therapeutic ATG Induced B Cell Apoptosis in Renal Transplantation and Myeloma"