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The Transplant Center Seminar Series held in the Winship Cancer Institute Building, Suite 5012 is attended by abdominal transplant surgeons, internists, fellows, residents and nurses. In addition it is open to all School of Medicine faculty. This is a CME accredited program.

PAST AND FUTURE NOON SYMPOSIUMS
Date	Speaker	Talk Topic
10/31/07	Kenneth Kokko, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Transplant Nephrology Emory University School of Medicine	TBD
10/24/07	Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, FACS Professor and Scientific Director, Emory Transplant Center Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar McKelvey Scholar Emory University School of Medicine	"Biological Monitoring of Renal Transplant Recipients"
10/17/07	Mark Boucek, MD Director of Cardiovascular Services Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Clinical Professor of Pediatrics University of Colorado Health Sciences	"Pediatric Heart Transplantation after Circulatory vs. Cerebral Donor Death"
10/10/07	Jonathan P. Fryer, MD Associate Professor of Surgery Director of Intestinal Transplantation Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine Division of Organ Transplantation	"Liver Transplantation: Current Challenges"
10/03/07	Mohamed H. Sayegh, MD, FAHA, FASN Warren E. Grupe and John P. Merrill Chair in Transplantation Medicine Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Director, Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division Brigham and Women's Hospital & Children's Hospital Boston	"The Emerging Role of Tregs in Transplantation"
09/26/07	No Transplant Symposium
09/19/07	Fiona O'Reilly Zwald, MD, MRCPI Dermatology and Mohs Micrographic Surgery Metropolitan Dermatologic Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, GA	"Management of the Therapeutic Dilemma of Aggressive Skin Cancer in Transplant Recipients"
09/12/07	Nicole Turgeon, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Director, Transplant Education Emory University School of Medicine	"Donation after Cardiac Death: One Surgeon's Perspective"
06/13/07-09/05/07	Summer Break
06/06/07	Scott Michael Palmer, MD, MHS, FCCP Associate Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Heart-Lung Transplant Program Duke University	"Innate Immunity and Lung Allograft Rejection"
05/30/07	No Transplant Symposium
05/23/07	Kenneth Kokko, MD, PhD Transplant Nephrology Emory University School of Medicine	"Antibodies-What we know, What we don't know, What we wish we knew"
05/16/07	Barry Warshaw, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine Medical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant Program Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston	"Update on Pediatric Renal Transplantation on the occasion of the 400th transplant at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta"
05/09/07	No Transplant Symposium
05/02/07	Christopher M. Bearden, MD Transplant Fellow Emory University	"CMV and the Immunosuppressive effect of phrophylaxis"
04/25/07	Diego Martin, MD, PhD Professor of Radiology Director of Body MRI Emory University School of Medicine	"MR Nephro-Urographic Imaging of Renal Transplantation"
04/18/07	Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD, OC Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre University of Alberta, Division of Nephrology	"GeneChip Technology: The Future of Transplantation - The Emergence of 'Omics'"
04/11/07	Curt Hagedorn, MD Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Director of the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology The University of Kansas Medical Center	"Hepatitis C Post-Liver Transplant: Determinants of Disease Progression"
04/04/07	No Transplant Symposium
03/28/07	George W. Burke, MD Chief, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Co-Director, Lillian Jean Kaplan Renal Transplantation Center University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center	"Recurrent Disease in Pancreas Transplants and Implications for Immune Origin of Diabetes"
03/21/07	E. Steve Woodle, MD Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Transplantation University of Cincinnati
03/14/07	Leslie Kean, MD
03/07/07	Dorry L. Segev, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Director of Clinical Research Transplant Surgery Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions	"Kidney Paired Donation: Math Meets Medicine"
02/28/07	Paul Tso, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Division of Kidney, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program Emory University School of Medicine	"The Return of Machine Perfused Kidneys"
02/21/07	Jose Avila, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery Scientific Director of Cell Isolation Laboratories Emory Transplant Center	"Endocrine Replacement for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes"
02/14/07	Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, FACC, FACP Herbert Berger Professor of Medicine and Head of Cardiology University of Maryland School of Medicine	"Trials and Tribulations in Heart Transplant - Where are We in 2007"
02/07/07	Carlos Fasola, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Division of Liver Transplantation Emory University School of Medicine	"Hepatitis C: Liver Transplant and Optimal Immunosuppression"
01/31/07	Sharon Graves, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Emory University School of Medicine	"Post Transplant Bone Disease"
01/24/07	John F. Renz, MD, PhD, FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons New York-Presbyterian Hospital	"Utilization of Expanded Donor Criteria Organs for Liver Transplantation"
01/10/07	Thomas M. Coffman, MD James R. Clapp Professor Medicine Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology Chief, Division of Nephrology Duke University Medical Center	"Key Role for Renal Angiotensin Receptors in Hypertension: Guyton Re-visited"
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"