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: Waitlisted Patients’ Preferences for Accepting and Consenting to Transplantation with Experimentally Manipulated Organs

E. J. Gordon¹, P. Abt², C. Phillips², F. Bermudez², B. Knopf¹, J. Lee¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, J. Goldstein⁵, S. Dunn⁶, P. Reese²

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

3:30pm-4:00pm: Waitlisting for Kidney Transplant and Social Determinants of Health Predict Health-Related Quality of Life (hrqol) in End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients

S. L. Swift¹, S. Wang², C. H. Chang³, J. Pleis⁴, M. Dew³, R. Shapiro⁵, M. Unruh¹, K. Kendall⁶, E. Croswell⁷, J. D. Peipert⁸, L. Myaskovsky¹

Poster Session D: Kidney Psychosocial • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: West Nile Virus Encephalitis in Kidney Transplant Recipients

F. Aziz, C. Saddler, M. Jorgenson, S. Parajuli, J. Smith, D. Mandelbrot

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

3:30pm-4:00pm: What Happens When You Administer Mesenchymal Stromal Cells During Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Porcine Kidneys: Possible and Helpful or Not?

K. Rozenberg¹, L. Knijff¹, J. Sierra-Parraga², L. Lo Faro¹, M. Hoogduijn², C. Baan², J. Hunter¹, R. Ploeg¹

Poster Session D: Cellular Therapies, Tissue Engineering / Regenerative Medicine • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: What is the Significance of Denovo Donor Specific Antibodies in Recipients of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants?

S. Parajuli, F. Aziz, J. Blazel, B. Muth, N. Garg, M. Mohamed, J. Rice, J. Mezrich, L. Hidalgo, D. Mandelbrot, G. Im, B. Lee

Poster Session C: Liver - Kidney Issues in Liver Transplantation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: What’s Lung Got to Do with It?: The Impact of the 2017 Lung Allocation Policy at a Single Organ Procurement Organization

A. J. Boyer, J. B. Nave, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski

Poster Session C: Non-Organ Specific: Public Policy & Allocation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: When CPRA Zero is Not the Hero: Does KAS Disadvantage Unsensitized Relisted Patients?

M. Casey, Z. Su, M. Mohamed Ahmed, D. Taber, E. Weeda, T. Morinelli, P. Mauldin, K. Soliman, M. A. Posadas-Salas, V. Rao, D. DuBay

Poster Session B: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Who Says Yes to Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA) Donation?

M. S. Gharibdousti¹, C. Martucciello², M. T. Khasawneh¹, A. L. Friedman³

Poster Session D: VCA • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Why Donate to a Stranger? Exploring the Major Motivations of 31 Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors

A. Maghen¹, G. Mendoza¹, S. E. Connor¹, S. Nassiri¹, L. Kwan¹, E. L. Wood¹, J. Lalezari¹, S. Friedman¹, S. George², S. L. Maliski³, J. L. Veale¹

Poster Session A: Late Breaking • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Withaferin A Prolongs Islet Allograft Survival in a Mouse Transplant Model by Preventing T Lymphocyte Proliferation and Dendritic Cell Maturation

K. Kumano¹, M. A. Kanak², S. Vasu¹, Y. Liu¹, M. Lawrence¹, B. Naziruddin¹

Poster Session B: Islet cell and cell Transplantation • Virtual