2020 American Transplant Congress

May 30-June 1, 2020

ATC Virtual Congress
Live Broadcast Dates: May 30 - June 1, 2020
OnDemand Access: May 30, 2020 - June 4, 2021

Originally scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, this became a Virtual Congress due to COVID-19. For more information, visit The Official ATC Congress site.

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Impact of Sirolimus on Weight Gain Post Heart Transplant

S. M. Gore, C. E. Raphael, K. Mara, C. Arendt, A. L. Clavell, S. A. Bernard

Poster Session C: Heart and VADs: All Topics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Impact of Transportation Innovation for Human Organs: Surgical Perspectives and Implications

T. Talaie, S. Niederhaus, E. Villalonga, J. Bromberg, J. Scalea

Poster Session C: Non-Organ Specific: Disparities to Outcome and Access to Healthcare • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Importance of Annual Medicare Part D Plan Evaluation

L. Potter¹, E. Garrity²

Poster Session C: Non-Organ Specific: Economics & Ethics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Importance of Annual Medicare Part D Plan Evaluation in Heart Transplantation

L. M. Lourenco

Poster Session B: Non-Organ Specific: Disparities to Outcome and Access to Healthcare • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Importance of Caveolin-1 Immunohistochemical Staining for BK Nephropathy Seen after Kidney Transplantation

E. Arpali¹, E. Sunnetcioglu², Y. Özlük², A. Turkmen³, F. S. Oğuz¹

Poster Session B: Kidney: Polyoma • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Incidence, Clinical Characteristics and Prophylactic Strategy of Invasive Fungal Infections in Lung Transplantation

L. Zhao¹, W. Chen¹, L. Guo¹, L. Jing¹, C. Liang¹, J. Chen¹, C. Wang²

Poster Session D: All Infections (Excluding Kidney & Viral Hepatitis) • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Influence of Donor Kidney to Recipient Body Weight Ratio on Long-Term Outcomes of Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation

N. Sato, Y. Kakuta, T. Kanzawa, K. Unagami, M. Okumi, H. Ishida, K. Tanabe

Poster Session D: Kidney Living Donor: Long Term Outcomes • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Influence of Spirituality and Other Motivations on Potential Kidney Living Donors’ Decisions to Donate by Race/Ethnicity

A. Waterman¹, G. H. Kim¹, Y. Cui², O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶

Poster Session A: Kidney Living Donor: Selection • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Level of Plasm Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Patients with Severe Pneumonia

L. Liu¹, H. Liu², F. Liu², L. Shu², L. Peng¹

Poster Session B: All Infections (Excluding Kidney & Viral Hepatitis) • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: The Link between Waitlist Mortality and Access to Transplant, an Imaginative Reality

R. Batra¹, D. Mulligan¹, D. Haakinson¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹

Poster Session B: Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues (DCD/ECD) • Virtual