WTC 2025 Pre-Congress Workshops
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.
Please note that pre-registration is required for attending any of these workshops. Stay tuned as registration opens on February 19, 2025.
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Allied Health Professionals Around the World
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Transplant ID 2025: Global Insights, Experience, and Innovation
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Xenotransplantation – Regulatory Challenges and Clinical Implementation
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Tolerance - Toward the Elusive Promise of Clinical Tolerance
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 Tolerence – 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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Obesity Management in Transplant Recipient and Donors (Kidney and Liver)
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Improving the Care and Follow-Up of Living Organ Donors
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Frontiers in Transplant Medication Management in a Technological Revolution
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
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Contact Us
Should you have any questions regarding these pre-congress workshop sessions, don’t hesitate to get in touch at:
Email: wtc2025-program@icsevents.com
Phone: +1 604 681 2153