Emory Transplant Center's Noon Symposium

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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.

Date	Speaker	Talk Topic
12/19/07	Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD Jacqueline G. Wm. E. Maritz Chair in Immunology & Oncology Professor of Surgery, Pathology, and Immunology Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Director, Islet Core Facility Washington University School of Medicine	"Alloimmune Mediated Autoimmunity in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Rejection"
12/12/07	G. Douglas Farmer, MD, FACS Director, Intestinal Transplant Program Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program Co-Director, Intestinal Failure Center Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center	"Update on the Status of Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation"
12/05/07	Mitchell L. Henry, MD Chief, Division of Transplantation Professor, Department of Surgery and Veterinary Clinical Scinece The Ohio State University Medical Center	"Prednisone-free Transplantation w/Thymoglobulin Induction"
11/28/07	Mark R. Benfield, MD Professor of Medicine Division Director, Pediatric Nephrology University of Alabama at Birmingham	"Pediatric Transplantation Update 2007"
11/21/07	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/14/07	Alan H. Wilkinson, MD, FRCRP Professor of Medicine Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"Kidney - Liver Transplantation, Who needs a kidney?"
11/07/07	Kenneth Newell, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery Director, Living Donor Kidney Program Division of Transplantation Emory University School of Medicine	"Studies of Tolerant Humans"
10/31/07	Kenneth Kokko, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Transplant Nephrology Emory University School of Medicine	"Hypertension"
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	"Acute Rejection in Steroid Free Regimens"
03/14/07	Leslie S. Kean, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Clinic Division of Hematology/Oncology/BMT Department of Pediatrics and The Emory Transplant Center Department of Surgery Emory University School of Medicine	"In search of...Transplantation tolerance through mixed-chimerism induction: from mouse to monkey...and back."
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"

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