- in the heart of the city of Leuven -

ABDOMINAL TRANSPLANT SURGERY: WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON?

LOCATIONM-MUSEUM LEUVEN

Quality, research and training in transplantationMedical, surgical, biological and technological innovation in liver and kidneyPancreas and intestine: ‘Orphan’ transplants?Role of transplant coordinators, allied health professionals and patients

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ANNIVERSARYOF THE DEPARTMENT OF

ABDOMINAL TRANSPLANT SURGERY AND TRANSPLANT COORDINATION

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN KU LEUVEN

ORGANIZING COMMITTEEJacques Pirenne, Diethard Monbaliu, Ina Jochmans, Mauricio Sainz Barriga

Bruno Desschans, Dirk Claes, Johan De Bent, Nele Grossen, Glen Van Helleputte, Stijn Dirix

SECRETARIAT ABDOMINAL TRANSPLANT SURGERY AND TRANSPLANT COORDINATION

Thursday 14 December 2017PR

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E15:30-16:00 Registration & coffee

16:00-16:30 Welcome• Marc Decramer (CEO, University Hospitals Leuven)• Marc Van Ranst (chair department of microbiology and

immunology, KU Leuven)• Jacques Pirenne (head abdominal transplant surgery,

University Hospitals Leuven)

16:30-19:00 QUALITY, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN TRANSPLANTATION

Chairs: Hans Van Vlierberghe (Ghent) and Dirk Van Raemdonck (Leuven)• Quality in healthcare Johan Van Eldere (medical director, University Hospitals

Leuven)• Quality in transplantation James Neuberger (Birmingham)• Benchmarking in liver transplantation Pierre-Alain Clavien (Zurich)• Center effect in transplantation Andries Braat (Leiden)• Improving quality:

A permanent quest from basic science to clinical trials

Rutger Ploeg (Oxford)• Training in transplantation Vassilios Papalois (London)

20:00 GUEST DINNER in honour of doctor Raymond Aerts and professor Willy Coosemans (by invitation only)

Friday 15 December 2017PR

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E8:15-8:45 Registration & coffee

8:45 HOW TO IMPROVE QUALITY IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATIONChairs: Raymond Reding (Brussels) and Valerio Lucidi (Brussels)• 1997-2017: The University Hospitals Leuven experience:

What have we learned? How to improve short-term outcome?

Diethard Monbaliu (Leuven) • How to improve long-term outcome? Frederik Nevens (Leuven)• Which strategies today to reduce biliary strictures? Wojtek Polak (Rotterdam)• Optimal immunosuppression and

how to spare the kidney Faouzi Saliba (Paris)• Tolerance after liver transplantation; between holy

grail and reality Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo (London)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 DYNAMIC PRESERVATION AND RESUSCITATION OF LIVERS AND KIDNEYS

Chairs: Dirk Ysebaert (Antwerp) and Arne Neyrinck (Leuven)• Kidney perfusion: Which trials are still to be done? Ina Jochmans (Leuven)• Kidney reconditioning Michael Nicholson (Cambridge)• Ex situ liver reconditioning: Some like it hot Chris Watson (Cambridge)• Ex situ liver reconditioning: Others like it cold Philipp Dutkowsky (Zurich)• Resuscitation: Why not in situ? Normothermic regional

perfusion Andrew Sutherland (Edinburgh)

13:00-14:00 Lunch buffet

Friday 15 December 201714:00 BIOLOGICAL MODULATION, HIBERNATION AND SUPERCOOLING

Chairs: Olivier Detry (Liège) and Ben Sprangers (Leuven)• Biological modulation to improve ischemia

reperfusion injury: What’s new? Nicolas Meurisse (Liège) • Cell therapy to improve ischemia reperfusion injury Nicholas Gilbo (Leuven)• Resistance to cold and hypoxia:

From polar bear and arctic frogs to man? Harry van Goor (Groningen)

15:00 NOVELTIES IN ANESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CARE Chairs: Steffen Rex (Leuven) and Geert Meyfroidt (Leuven)• Liver and kidney transplant:

The anesthesiologist can make the difference Marleen Verhaegen (Leuven)• Liver transplant per se causes acute kidney injury Ina Jochmans (Leuven)• When is a sick patient too sick for liver transplant? Philippe Meersseman (Leuven)• ICU care of the high-risk liver transplant recipient Jan Gunst (Leuven)

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45 NOVELTIES IN SURGERY Chairs: Xavier Rogiers (Ghent) and Tom Darius (Brussels)• Hemodynamics in solid organ transplantation: An unexplored field Mauricio Sainz Barriga (Leuven) • Extraction and implantation time: The faster, the better? Ina Jochmans (Leuven) • Retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy in live donors Jiri Fronek (Prague) • Donation and transplantation: The robot in charge? Enrico Benedetti (Chicago)

17:45 THOMAS STARZL (1926-2017): HOW ONE SURGEON REVOLUTIONIZED THE TRANSPLANTATION FIELD?

• em. prof. dr. Jan Lerut (Past-Director of the Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, Brussels)

19:00 Dinner buffet at the M-Museum Leuven

Saturday 16 December 2017PR

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9:00 INTESTINE, PANCREAS AND COMBINED TRANSPLANTATIONS: ‘ORPHAN’ TRANSPLANTS?

Chairs: Albert Wolthuis (Leuven) and Daniel Jacobs-Tulleneers-Thevissen (Brussels)• Why and how to resurrect pancreas

transplant programmes? Rainer Gruessner (New York State)• Islet transplantation: Current indications? Pieter Gillard (Leuven)• Intestinal transplant: From ‘forbidden and forgotten’

to life-saving and quality-of-life improving transplant Andreas Pascher (Berlin)• Pancreatic and intestinal transplantation in the

University Hospitals Leuven: On the rise again? Jacques Pirenne (Leuven)• Combined liver and other organ transplants:

Is it justified to transplant multiple organs in one recipient?

Laurens Ceulemans (Leuven)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30 DONATION & TRANSPLANT COORDINATION 1997–2017: ARE WE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS?

Chairs: Bruno Desschans (Leuven) and Stijn Dirix (Leuven)• Donation in 1997 versus 2017 in Eurotransplant Undine Samuel (Leiden)• Donation in 1997 versus 2017 in Leuven Bruno Desschans (Leuven)• How to increase donation in an opting-out system –

the LSGO-model Diethard Monbaliu (Leuven) • The donation process: Quantifying the chaos Dirk Claes (Leuven)• How to structure chaos? Glen Van Helleputte (Leuven)

13:00-14:00 Lunch buffet

Saturday 16 December 201714:00 PARAMEDICI EN PATIËNTEN EN HUN ONMISBARE ROL IN TRANSPLANTATIE

Chairs: Sabina De Geest (Leuven - Basel) en Karel Op de Beeck (Leuven)• De transplantatiecoördinator: Ook voor levende donatie Nele Grossen (Leuven)• De psycholoog: Niet alleen screening, maar ook ondersteuning Karine Van Tricht (Leuven)• De sociaal werker: Evaluatie, maar ook ondersteuning en begeleiding Kathleen Remans (Leuven)• De operatieverpleegkundige: Hoe omgaan met complexe,

lange en ongeplande chirurgie (en de transplantatiechirurgen!) in het operatiekwartier?

Liesbeth De Meyer (Leuven)• De intensievezorgenverpleegkundige: Hoe omgaan met toenemende kritiek zieke patiënten? Sus Vermeiren (Leuven)• De transplantverpleegkundige: Administratie en veiligheid versus patiëntenzorg Mathilde Dehairs/Carine Breunig (Leuven)• De kinesist: Bewegen om herstel te versnellen Leen Schepers (Leuven)• De diëtist: Gezond eten om je lichaam en orgaan

gezond te houden Nelle Pauwels (Leuven)

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 Patiënten maken deel uit van het behandelende teamChairs: Wim Laleman (Leuven) en Robert Minnee (Rotterdam)• Samenwerken aan betere resultaten: Patiëntgerapporteerde

resultaten en ‘patient empowerment’ in transplantatie Sabina De Geest (Leuven - Basel)• Shared decision-making Kathleen Claes (Leuven)• Patiëntenorganisaties: Wanneer patiënten elkaar helpen Carine Wellens (Poppel)• Time to move! Transplantoux Jonas Vanbekbergen (Leuven)

18:00 GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE TO GIVE OTHERS A SECOND CHANCE• Liz Schick (President Transplant Adventure Camps for Kids,

TACKERS Anzère)

REGISTRATIONRegistration is required before 15/11/2017: www.uzleuven.be/txsurgery-20years Subscriptions are limited to 200 persons per section!

Thursday 14 December free of chargeFriday 15 December 50 euroFriday 15 December – dinner buffet 20 euroSaturday 16 December 25 euro

LOCATIONM-Museum LeuvenLeopold Vanderkelenstraat 28, 3000 Leuvenwww.mleuven.be

HOW TO REACH LEUVENwww.visitleuven.be/en/accessibility-transport

You can park your car in one of the public parkings nearby: Parking Ladeuze – De Bond – Kinepolis

MORE INFORMATIONIf you have any questions, please send an e-mail to Secr.transplantatiechirurgie@uzleuven.be or call +32 (0)16 34 87 27

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