Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation Meeting
Please join us on October 10th, 2025 for the
2025 Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation meeting
jointly organized by the
International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS)
and the
Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA)
San Antonio, TX
Friday, October 10, 2024
University Hospital Main Campus
UH Women’s and Children’s Hospital- Adams Conference Center
4502 Medical Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229
2025 ILTS/SATA Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation
7:15 am – 7:50 am Registration
7:50 am – 8:00 am Welcome and Introduction
8:00 am – 8:55 am How Modern Donor Care Has Changed our Daily Operations
Moderators: Fareedul Azam - University of Colorado Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA, Jwnnuw Ngai - New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
8:00 am – 8:15 am Donor center and DCD donation. Is it a game-changer for LT in the USA?
Martin Littlejohn - University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
8:15 am – 8:30 am NRP: Progress and Challenges
Govind Rangrass - Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO, USA
8:30 am – 8:45am The ups and downs of machine perfusion: how do DCD donors affect our practice?
Peter Frasco - Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
8:45 am – 8:55 am Discussion
8:55 am – 9:15 am Break
9:15 am – 10:10 am Challenges of Perioperative Management
Moderators: Fuat Saner - King Faisal Specialized Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rachel Freeman - University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
9:15 am – 9:30 am How to start a new liver transplant program
Saravanan Ramamoorthy - Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
9:30 am – 9:45 am Venous Excess Ultrasounds for postoperative assessment after Liver Transplantation
Ronny Munoz-Acuna - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
9:45 am – 10:10 am AKI and HRS: why this is stillwsignificant for perioperative care
Mike Bokoch - University of California-San Francisco, CA, USA
10:00 am – 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am Pro/Con Debate: How much monitoring do we still need?
Moderators: Kapil Gupta - University of Washington , Seattle, WA, USA
Gurmukh Sahota - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
10:30 am – 10:50 am A lot: liver transplantation REQUIRES complex monitoring
Yaroslava Longhitano - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
10:50 am – 11:10 am A little: Liver transplantation DOES NOT REQUIRE complex monitoring
Kate Kronish - University of California-San Francisco, CA, USA
11:10 am – 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break and Workshops
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Case Presentations
Moderators: Kristen Burton - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Konstantin Balonov - Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Case 1: Brian Gebhard -University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Case 2: Simone Redaelli - Lahey Clinic,Burlington, MA, USA
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm ILTS Cardiovascular Special Interest Group (SIG)
Moderators: Michel Little -University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
Cale Kassel - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
2:15 pm – 2:35 pm Combined liver-lung transplants
Zachary Fleissner - Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
2:35 pm – 2:55 pm 2025 Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Update
Kymberly Watt - Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
2:55 pm – 3:10 pm Discussion
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Break
3:20 pm – 4:15 pm The future of transplant anesthesia
Moderators: Alexandra Anderson - Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN, USA
Samir Gandhi - University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm AI in transplantation: this is just the beginning
Jiapeng Huang - University of Louisville, Louisville, KY , USA
3:35 pm – 3:50 pm Are our patients sicker or healthier, are our grafts better or worse?
Eugenia Tsai - University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
3:50 pm – 4:05 pm Robotic transplant surgery: first impressions
Katharina Beckmann - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
4:05 pm – 4:15 pm Discussion
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Closing remarks
Moderators: Dmitri Bezinover - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Highlights from consensus conference Safety of Living Donors
Carla Luzzi - University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Address of ILTS president
Valeria Mas - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Address of SATA president
Lorenzo DeMarchi - Georgetown Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks
Gebhard Wagener - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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