TID 2022 Virtual

14th International Transplant Infectious Disease Conference

Cutting Edge Topics in Transplant INfectious Disease for the Transplant Clinician

Overview

The meeting engages renowned international speakers from the Infectious Disease community for updates on transplantation practice. Themes include emerging updates in microbiology practices and Infection ris, as well as a focus on quality metrics and donation safety. The year’s most important clinical updates will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

  1. To learn about new practices and science behind transplant infection risk and management.
  2. To find ways to incorporate quality and safety metrics into transplant practice
  3. To evaluate new laboratory techniques relevant to donors, recipients and transplant safety.

Day 1: Wednesday, November 16

Session 1 - Quality Metrics in TID: A Global Perspective

Moderators: Ban Hock Tan, Singapore; and Wanessa Clemente, Brazil

The Patient Safety Programme (WHO) – Finding Ways to Expand Safety Metrics into Transplantation to Improve Quality

Paolo Grossi, Italy 
Bio

Donor and Candidate Metrics – Setting Your Program Up for Success

Kapil Saharia, United States 
Bio

Post-Transplant: Can Stewardship and Infection Control Metrics Be Applied to Transplant Settings?

Graeme Forrest, United States 
Bio

Session 2 - Donor Issues

Moderators: Cameron Wolfe, United States; and Alessandra Mularoni, Italy

Xenotransplantation: What is the Infection Risk?

Anoma Nellore, United States 
Bio

Investigating Donor-derived Infection Clusters – Where to even Start?

Ines Ushiro-Lumb, United Kingdom 
Bio

Deceased Donors with Meningitis/Encephalitis

Alissa Wright , United States 
Bio

Session 3 - Finally Are We Out of the Pandemic?

Moderators: Siriorn Watcharananan, Thailand; and Judith Anesi, United States

Vaccines vs Variants – Where Do We Currently Land?

William Werbel, United States 
Bio

COVID at the Time of Transplant (Donor & Recipient)

Ligia Camera-Pierrotti, Brazil 
Bio

My Immunocompromised Patient is Sick (with Lots of Resources) - So Now What?

Thuan Tong Tan, Singapore 
Bio

My Immunocompromised Patient is Sick & I Don't Have Access to all the Drugs - So NOW What?

Sishir Gang, India 
Bio

Day 2: Thursday, November 17

Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:00 AM (Local time in Montreal)
Local time (Corresponding local time at your current location)

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

Transplant Tourism in 2022

Shyam Bansal, India 
Bio

Post-Transplant Hepatitis E

Nassim Kamar, France 
Bio

Chagas Disease

Marcelo Radisic, Argentina 
Bio

Session 2 - Cases in Medical Microbiology - Exploring New Laboratory

Moderators: Maricar Malinis, United States; and Olivia Smibert, Australia

Donor Screening

Nicholas Mueller, Switzerland 
Bio

Candida Auris

Arnaldo Colombo, Brazil 
Bio

Blood Culture Advancements – Molecular Detection & Evaluation

Marwan Azar, United States 
Bio

Meningitis / Encephalitis Testing

Daniel Kaul, United States 
Bio

Session 3 - Infection Risk with Emerging Stem Cell Transplant Treatments

Moderators: Jennifer Saullo, United States; and Jasmine Chung, Singapore

CAR-T Infections

Anton Peleg, Australia 
Bio

Bone Marrow Donation Safety

Steve Pergam, United States 
Bio

Session 4 - Top Papers of the World

Moderators: Michael Ison, United States; and Jose Maria Aguado, Spain

Best Papers in Transplant Infectious Disease

Camille Kotton, United States 
Bio

Best Papers in General ID that will Influence Your Transplant Practice

Emily Blumberg, United States 
Bio

Contact

Staff Directory
+1-514-874-1717 x216
sections@tts.org

Address

Transplant Infectious Disease
c/o The Transplantation Society
740 Notre-Dame Ouest
Suite 1245
Montréal, QC, H3C 3X6
Canada