Transplant Coordinators Conference 2015

Time

Session

Day I - 3rd October 2015

08.30 am - 08.50 am

Novel biomarkers to predict allograft outcomes in deceased donor transplants
Dr. Rutger Ploeg
Chairpersons - Dr. S. Suresh & Dr. S. Ramalakshmi

08.50 am - 09.20 am

Presidential Address
Dr. Umesh Oza
Chairpersons - Dr. Ajit Huilgol & Dr. Aruna Vanikar

09.30 am - 09.50 am

Improving the deceased donation rate in Philadelphia - Gift of Life Model
Mr. Howard Nathan
Chairpersons - Dr. Georgi Abraham & Ms. Lalitha Raghuram

09.50 am - 10.10 am

All Hands on Deck - The story behind the first dual hand transplant in India
Dr. Subramania Iyer
Chairpersons - Dr. R. Krishnamurthy & Dr. Dhananjai Agarwal

10.10 am - 10.30 am

Pancreas transplantation in India - Coming of Age
Dr. Anil Vaidya
Chairpersons - Dr. D. Shantaram, Dr. Sandeep Guleria, Dr. A. Ramachandran

10.30 am - 11.00 am

Are we ready to come in from the cold?
Dr. Peter friend
Chairpersons - Dr. Rajeev Lochan & Dr. Umesh Lingaraj

11.00 am - 11.15 am

Tea Break

11.15 am - 11.30 am

Inauguration of 8th Transplant Coordinators' Conference
Dr. Sunil Shroff, Dr. Anirban Bose, Dr. Manjula B, Mr. Howard Nathan, Dr. Umesh Oza & Dr. A. Chandraker

11.30 am - 12.10 pm

Swamy Narayan Memorial Oration
Donor Coordinators - The Important role you play
Mr. Howard Nathan
Introduction by - Mrs. Pallavi Kumar

12.10 pm - 12.40 pm

Public Engagement with Organ Donation
Dr. Gurch Randhawa
Chairpersons - Dr. Hemal Kanvinde & Dr. Sujata Rajapurkar

12.40 pm - 01.00 pm

Organ Allocation - A North American Perspective
Dr. Hariharan Iyer
Chairpersons - Mr. Sreekumar & Mr. Sagayam Francis

01.00 pm - 01.45 pm

Lunch - Poster Presentation
Judges - Mrs. Seema Yadav & Mr. C.B. Chandrasekaran

01.45 pm - 03.00 pm

Panel Discussion:
How to increase the number of organ donations in the country? My Formula
Moderated by Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram
Dr. A. Chandraker, Dr. Amalorpavanathan, Dr. Lori West & Mr. Kirit Mistry

03.00 pm - 03.10 pm

Film on organ donation by ZTCC, Pune
Mrs. Aarti Gokhale

03.10 pm - 03.15 pm

Torrent Pharma Film

03.15 pm - 05.00 pm

(with tea break: 04.00pm - 04.15pm)

Panel Discussion:

• Handling deceased organ donor
• Is it possible to hand over donor body on time to family?
• Donor optimization by a transplantation coordinator
• Counseling families with the help of SPECT scan, An-Additional tool for counseling for Organ Donation

05.00 pm - 05.15 pm

Psychosocial Aspect of ABO incompatible and Swap transplant patients
Dr.Sujata Rajapurkar
Chairpersons - Mr. Sudhir Dewan & Dr. Bhanuchandra

05.15 pm - 06.00 pm

Free Paper Session

06.00 pm - 06.30 pm

General Body Meeting

Day II - 4th October 2015

09.00 am - 10.00 am

Free Paper Presentation
Chairpersons - Dr. Gurch Randhawa & Mr. Kirit Mistry

10.00 am - 10.15 am

Tea Break

10.15 am - 10.45 am

Heart Valve Bank
Dr. Jacob Jamesraj
Chairperson - Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram

10.45 am - 11.00 am

Tea Break

11.00 am - 11.20 am

Angels of Change
Mrs. Pallavi Kumar
Chairpersons - Dr. Ravi Waknhede & Dr. Koti Reddy

11.20 am - 12.20 pm

Unusual case studies
Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Kochi, Pune, Chandigarh & Nagpur
Chairpersons - Dr.Sumana Navin & Mr. Jacob Mathew

12.20 pm - 01.00 pm

Free Paper presentation
Judges - Dr. Gurch Randhawa & Mr. Kirit Mistry

01.00 pm - 01.45 pm

Lunch

01.45 pm - 02.05 pm

Kidney transplant Video - Dr.S.Saravanan
Liver Transplant video - Dr.Gomathy Narasimhan

02.05 pm - 03.05 pm

Role Play
Chairperson - Mr. Sagayam Francis

03.05 pm - 03.45 pm

A New Beginning with the Police
Dr. Hemal Kanvinde & Ms.Sunitha A.T
Chairpersons - Mr. K. Raghuram, Mr. V. Baskaran & Mr. Sathish L.

04.00 pm - 04.30 pm

Valedictory Function

Chief Guest - Thiru.K.Periaiah,IPS, DIG, Police Training College, Chennai.

• Swamy Narayan Best Transplant Coordinators' Award
• Best Free Paper Award
• Best Poster Award
  
• Feedback from participants
• Vote of Thanks