2022 - TID 2022 Virtual

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Day 2: Thursday, November 17

2.1 - Session 1 - Emerging & Re-emerging ID Issues in Transplant

Presenter: Maddalena Giannella, Shyam Bansal, Nassim Kamar, Marcelo Radisic, , ,
Authors: Maddalena Giannella, Shyam Bansal, Nassim Kamar, Marcelo Radisic, John Baddley, Stephanie Pouch

Session 1 - Emerging & Re-emerging ID Issues in Transplant

Moderators: John Baddley, United States; and Stephanie Pouch, United States

Pre-Transplant Colonization

Maddalena Giannella, Italy 
Bio

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna;
Infectious Diseases Consultant, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

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Maddalena Giannella is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna and an Infectious Diseases consultant at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Italy. Since 2016, she is member of the Executive Committee of the European Study Group of Bloodstream infection Endocarditis and Sepsis (ESGBIES) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). She is associate editor of Transplant International, the official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). She is author of 184 articles published on national and international peer reviewed journals, H-index 40 (Scopus source). The main research fields include antibiotic resistant infections, infections in solid organ transplant recipients, sepsis and bloodstream infections.

Transplant Tourism in 2022

Shyam Bansal, India 
Bio

Director Nephrology, Medanta-Medicity, Gurgaon

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Organising secretary ISNCON 2013, 2017
Organising secretary: Kidney Transplant Update
Secretary Delhi Nephrology Society
Executive Member Indian Society of Nephrology and ISOT Publications:

• >50 publications in various indexed journals
• First Case Report and series of ABO incompatible kidney transplants in India
• Steroid-free transplantation first case series from India
• Multiple publications on post-transplant Infections including the first case report of Transplantation in HIV positive patient from India, Series of post-transplant
• histoplasmosis, mucormycosis, Leishmaniasis, COVID and Dengue infection in Kidney transplant recipients in India

Post-Transplant Hepatitis E

Nassim Kamar, France 
Bio

Professor of Nephrology, Head of the Department of Nephrology
and Organ Transplantation, Toulouse University Hospital, France

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Nassim Kamar, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Nephrology and is the Head of the Department of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation at Toulouse University Hospital, France. Dr. Kamar was graduated in 2002. He completed a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in basic research at the Department of Nephrology, La Charité Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Dr. Kamar was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 2006. Dr. Kamar’s interests are viral infection, particularly hepatitis E virus, hepatitis C virus, cytomegalovirus, SARS-CoV-2, BK virus infections that develop after solid organ transplantation. Moreover, he is also interested in immunosuppression after transplantation. Dr. Kamar has published 660 papers in peer-review journals.

Chagas Disease

Marcelo Radisic, Argentina 
Bio

Head, Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad

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Marcelo Radisic, MD. is head of the Infectious Diseases department at the Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This institution is the main transplantation center in Argentina, running kidney, kidney pancreas, liver and bone marrow transplantation programs. He´s been working in the Transplant Infectious Diseases field for the last 25 years, and is certified in his country in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is a member of the Sociedad Argentina de Infectologia and Transplant Infectious Diseases society, being part of the council for the period 2021-2025

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