14-17 JANUARY, ISIS ISLAND, PYRAMISA, ASWAN


Scientific Program moderators
• Prof. Dr. Assem El-Sherief
• Prof. Dr. Medhat Askar

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 14/1/2009
3.00-7.00 pm REGISTRATION
5.00-6.30 pm WELCOME RECEPTION & OPENING CEREMONY
 
? Dr. Sima Bahous, Assistant Secretary General of Arab League
? Prof. Tareq Suheimat, President of ASNRT & Meeting Honorary President
? Prof. Jeremy Chapman, President of The Transplantation Society (TTS)
? Prof. Rashad Barsoum, Chairman of Sister Renal Center Program, ISN
? Prof. Abdulla Al-Sayyari, Head of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation Division, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh
? Prof. Ahmed Adel Hassan, Meeting President
6.30-8.15 pm

COMPREHENSIVE INSIGHTS INTO RENAL TRANSPLANTATION

Chairperson: Helmy Abu Zeid , Tarek Suheimat, Amina Hassab
6.30-7.00 Arabic Organ Sharing Network: The dream; are we getting close?
 
Faissal Shaheen
7.00-7.30 Lessons Learnt From Renal Transplantation in the Arab World
 
Abdulla Al-Sayarri
7.30-8.00 The Reality about Virtualization of Cross-matches
 
Medhat Askar
8.00-8.15 Discussion
   
8.15-8.30 pm COFFEE BREAK
8.30-9.15 pm ABDULMONEIM HASSABALLAH LECTURE
  Chairperson: David Sachs, Ahmed Adel Hassan
8.30- 8.40 pm
Opening address
 
Helmy Abu Zeid
8.40- 9.15 pm Conceptual Evolution of Immunosuppression for Solid Organ Transplantation
Rashad Barsoum
9.15-9.30 pm Discussion
9.30 pm DINNER
 
THURSDAY 15/1/2009
9.00-9.35 am KEYNOTE LECTURE
  Chairperson: Ahmed Shoker, Amin Roshdy  
  Transplantation Tolerance: Harvard experience
David Sachs
9.35-11.00 am MORNING PLENARY SESSION
  Chairperson: Hassan Abu Aisha, Saeed AlGhamdi
9.35-10.05 why do only 40% of diabetics develop nephropathy?
 
Richard Johnson
10.05-10.35 International Collaborative Consensus on IgA Nephropathy Classification
 
Ian Roberts
10.35-11.00 Discussion
11.00-12.30 pm CPC 1 (RENAL TRANSPLANTATION)
  Chairperson: Ahmed Shoker, Amin Roshdy
  Transplantation Tolerance: Harvard experience
 
David Sachs
9.35-11.00 am MORNING PLENARY SESSION
  Chairperson: Hassan Abu Aisha, Saeed AlGhamdi
9.35-10.05 why do only 40% of diabetics develop nephropathy?
 
Richard Johnson
10.05-10.35
International Collaborative Consensus on IgA Nephropathy Classification
 
Ian Roberts
10:35-11:00 Discussion
11.00-12.30 pm CPC 1 (RENAL TRANSPLANTATION)
Moderator: Rania Derani, Ian Roberts
11.30-12.30 Cases from Arab Nephrologists
  Ahmed Adel, Medhat Askar (Cleveland)
Tarek Ghoneim (Manchester)
Tarek Saeed (Kuwait)
Usama Abdel Azim (Egypt)
12.30-12.45 pm COFFEE BREAK
12.45-2.40 pm TRENDS IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
  Chairperson: Faissal Shaheen, Bassam Saeed
12.45-1.20 Chronic Allograft Nephropathy; what is it and How Can We Prevent it?
 
Jeremy Chapman
1.20-1.55
Kidney Transplantation in Pediatric Patients
 
Franz Schaefer
1.55-2.30 FTY720 versus MMF in de novo Kidney Transplantation
   
Ahmed Shoker
2.30-2.45 Discussion  
2.45-4.00 pm
LUNCH  
4:00-4.30 pm ISTANBUL DECLARATION
  Chairperson: Jeremy Chapman, Riyad Said
  Speaker: Faissal Shaheen
4.30-5.30 pm CPC 2 (MISCELLANEOUS)
  Moderator: Rim Goucha, Richard Johnson
4.30-5.00 Illustrating Case from an Expert
 
Norbert Lamiere
5.00-5.45 Cases from Arab Nephrologists
   
Saeed AlGhamdi (KSA)
Babikir G. Kaballo (Sudan)
5.45 - 6.15 pm COFFEE BREAK
6.15-7.15 pm DEBATE
  Moderators: Wesam Ismail, Rashad Barsoum
  Early Protocol Biopsies: Lack of Benefit versus Usefulness
    Jeremy Chapman (Pro)
Ahmed Shokr (Con)
7 .30 pm
GATHERING TO MOVE TO THE “SOUND AND LIGHT EXHIBITION”  
10.00 pm DINNER  
 
FRIDAY 16/1/2009
9.00-9.35 am TRANSPLANTATION: CUTTING EDGE
  Chairperson: Jeremy Chapman, Usama Abdel Azim
  Advances in Xeno-Transplantation
 
David Sachs
9.35-10.30 am NEPHROLOGY GRAND-ROUNDS
  Chair: Rashad Baroum, Abdullah AlSayyari
  Renal Pathologist: Ian Roberts
Discussant: Riyad Said
11.00 am GATHERING FOR NUBIAN VILLAGE VISIT
3.00-5.00 pm LUNCH
5.00-7.00 pm CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON PROTEINURIC GLOMERULAR DISEASE
  Chairperson: Babikir G. Kaballo, Hesham Safouh
5.00-5.35 Minimal Change Disease: Clues to Pathogenesis
 
Richard Johnson
5.35-6.10 Genetic Forms of Proteinuric Glomerular Disease
 
Franz Schaefer
6.10-6.45 Histological Classification of FSGS
 
Ian Roberts
6.45-7.00 Discussion
7.00-7.15 pm COFFEE BREAK
7.15-8.30 pm CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON IMMUNOLOGY OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
  Chairperson: Myriam Abou Seif, Mohamed AlKhalifa, Wesam ElGuindy
7.15-7.45 Laboratory Management of Highly-Sensitized Transplant Recipients
 
Mohamed Elkhalifa
7.45-8.15 Non-HLA Antibodies and Solid Organ Transplantation
 
Medhat Askar
8.15-8.30 Discussion
8.30-10.00 pm CPC 3 (GLOMERLULAR DISEASE)
 

Moderator: Issam Francis, Norbert Lamiere, AbdelKarim Shebani

8.30-9.00 Illustrating Case from an Expert
 
Richard Johnson, Wesam Ismail
9.00-10.00 Cases from Arab Nephrologists
    Tarek Saeed (Kuwait)
Bassam Saeed (Syria)
10.00 pm GALA DINNER  
     
SATURDAY 17/1/2009
9.00-11.00am RENAL TRANSPLANTATION: A NEW LOOK AT OLD PROBLEMS
  Chairperson: Franz Schaefer, Ahsene Atiq
9.00 -9.50 Acute Kidney Injury in Renal Transplantation
 
Norbert Lamiere
9.50-10.20
BK Nephropathy
 
Wesam Ismail
10.20 -10.50 Accuracy to Estimate Rates of Decline in GFR in Renal Transplant Patients
 
Ahmed Shoker
11.25 -12.00 Accuracy to Estimate Rates of Decline in GFR in Renal Transplant Patients
 
Ahmed Shokr
10.50-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 am COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.30 pm CPC 4 (MISCELLANEOUS)
  Moderators: Lina Asaad, Saeed AlGhamdi
 
Clinico-pathological Exercise Ahmed Adel
  Cases from Arab Nephrologists
  Tarek Ghoneim (Manchester)
Babikir G. Kaballo (Sudan)
Rim Goucha (Tunisia)
12.30-2.00 pm MEET THE EXPERTS
  Moderators: Assem ElSherif, Rayan Tahar
Panelists: Norbert Lamiere
Richard Johnson
Franz Schaefer
2.00-2.30 pm CLOSING REMARKS
3.00-5.00 pm LUNCH