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The WTC 2025 Organizing Committee has thoughtfully designed the following pre-congress workshops to provide a unique opportunity for enhancing your professional skills in the field of transplantation.

Registration for Pre-Congress Workshops Required!

Workshop General Information:

Saturday,
August 2, 2025

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Fee: USD 169

Pre-Congress Workshops List:

Keys to Success
in Your Academic Transplant Career

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This interactive workshop provides a comprehensive guide to academic professional development in transplantation. Designed for professionals at all career stages, the session covers key topics such as career advancement, research development, and publishing success.

Workshop Topics:

How to Pursue Academic Professional Development: Creating a Niche
Pearls and Pitfalls of Getting Your Paper Published: Ask the Editors
Climbing the Ladder in Academic Transplantation
How to Get a Grant: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try Again

Allied Health Professionals
Around the World

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This workshop explores the critical role of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in transplantation, including their contributions to patient care, clinical innovation, and professional development. Designed for transplant coordinators, nurses, physician assistants, physiotherapists, and other AHPs, the session provides insights into administrative strategies, frontline clinical advancements, and future opportunities in transplant care.

Workshop Topics:

How We Built It – Administrative Pearls to Foster Team Success
Clinical Innovation – AHPs on the Frontline
Frontiers of AHPs in Transplantation

Tolerance - Toward the Elusive Promise of Clinical Tolerance

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This workshop explores the latest advancements in clinical tolerance—the ultimate goal in transplantation, where recipients can achieve long-term graft survival without the need for lifelong immunosuppression. Bringing together experts in immunology, cellular therapies, and regulatory aspects, this session examines barriers, opportunities, and innovative strategies to achieving true immune tolerance.

Workshop Topics:

Different Approaches to Achieving Tolerance – Barriers and Opportunities
Ethical and Regulatory Issues of Tolerance Trials
Cellular Therapies to Achieve Tolerance
Combined Thymus/Organ Approach
How Stable is Tolerance? Experimental and Clinical Data
Tissue Modification to Avoid Immune Rejection
Patient Perspective: Living with Tolerance

Xenotransplantation – Regulatory Challenges and Clinical Implementation

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This in-depth workshop explores the latest advancements, regulatory challenges, and clinical implementation of xenotransplantation. Bringing together leading experts, the session covers the historical context, ethical considerations, and insights from ongoing clinical trials to provide a comprehensive view of the future of xenotransplantation.

Workshop Topics:

History of Xenotransplantation
Current Challenges in Xenotransplantation
Regulatory Aspects in Xenotransplantation
Ethical Considerations in Xenotransplantation
Updates and outlooks from clinical trials

Transplant ID 2025: Global Insights, Experience, and Innovation

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This expanded workshop brings together leading experts in transplant infectious diseases to explore cutting-edge clinical challenges, global emerging infections, and best practices for training the next generation of specialists.

Workshop Topics:

Cases in Transplant ID: A Syndrome- based approach – Expert Evaluation and Management
Emerging Problems Migrating to Your Neighborhood
Teaching Transplant ID to Trainees – Improving our educational practice

Obesity Management in Transplant Recipient and Donors (Kidney and Liver)

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This comprehensive workshop explores the challenges and solutions in managing obesity and cardiometabolic disease in kidney and liver transplantation. Experts will discuss pre- and post-transplant strategies, donor considerations, and surgical innovations for high BMI recipients.

Workshop Topics:

Managing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Before and After Transplant
Managing Obesity in Transplant Donors
Robotic Kidney Transplant Surgery for High BMI Recipients – Tips and Tricks from Around the World

Improving the Care and Follow-Up of Living Organ Donors

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This workshop explores best practices in pre- and post-donation care for living kidney and liver donors. With a focus on global perspectives, ethical considerations, and long-term donor health, expert-led discussions will identify challenges, share solutions, and propose strategies to enhance lifelong care and data collection for living donors.

Workshop Topics:

Pre-Donation Best Practices
Global Perspectives on Post-Donation Follow-Up
Strategies to Improve Long-Term Donor Care and Data Collection

Frontiers in Transplant Medication Management in a Technological Revolution

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

This cutting-edge symposium explores how emerging technologies are transforming transplant pharmacy, helping clinicians enhance medication adherence, streamline workflows, and leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for better patient outcomes. Designed for transplant pharmacists, clinicians, and researchers, this session provides a practical roadmap to integrating technology into daily clinical practice.

Workshop Topics

Using Passive Technologies to Monitor Transplant Patient Medication Adherence
Optimizing Clinical Pharmacist Workflows with EMR Technology
The Role of Generative AI in Transplant Medication Management

Global Perspective for Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation for Indigenous Peoples

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

Globally, Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in patient populations living with end-stage organ failure. Healthcare inequities and social determinants commonly impede access to organ donation and transplant medicine for Indigenous patients. The following sessions will explore the inequities that exist in 4 countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, and the innovative ways in which donation and transplant medicine can be made more accessible and uptake of services improved for Indigenous peoples.

Workshop Topics:

Examines Healthcare Inequities in Donation and Transplant Medicine Experienced by Indigenous Peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States
Examines Innovative and Culturally Safe Strategies for Decreasing Healthcare Inequities Experienced by Indigenous Patients as They Access Donation and Transplant Medicine

Pre-Congress Workshops

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Registration for Pre-Congress Workshops Required!

Workshop General Information:

Saturday,
August 2, 2025

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Fee: USD 169

Pre-Congress Workshops List:

Keys to Success
in Your Academic Transplant Career

Allied Health Professionals
Around the World

Tolerance - Toward the Elusive Promise of Clinical Tolerance

Xenotransplantation – Regulatory Challenges and Clinical Implementation

Transplant ID 2025: Global Insights, Experience, and Innovation

Obesity Management in Transplant Recipient and Donors (Kidney and Liver)

Improving the Care and Follow-Up of Living Organ Donors

Frontiers in Transplant Medication Management in a Technological Revolution

Global Perspective for Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation for Indigenous Peoples

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Pre-Congress Workshops

Contact Us

Registration for Pre-Congress Workshops Required!

Workshop General Information:

Saturday, August 2, 2025

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Fee: USD 169

Pre-Congress Workshops List:

Keys to Success in Your Academic Transplant Career

Allied Health Professionals Around the World

Tolerance - Toward the Elusive Promise of Clinical Tolerance​

Xenotransplantation – Regulatory Challenges and Clinical Implementation

Transplant ID 2025: Global Insights, Experience, and Innovation

Obesity Management in Transplant Recipient and Donors (Kidney and Liver)

Improving the Care and Follow-Up of Living Organ Donors​

Frontiers in Transplant Medication Management in a Technological Revolution​

Global Perspective for Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation for Indigenous Peoples

Useful Links

Stay Connected!

Contact Us

Saturday,
August 2, 2025

Keys to Success
in Your Academic Transplant Career

Allied Health Professionals
Around the World

Tolerance - Toward the Elusive Promise of Clinical Tolerance

Improving the Care and Follow-Up of Living Organ Donors

Frontiers in Transplant Medication Management in a Technological Revolution