Miami Transplant International Symposium
October 23 – 25, 2015
Miami, FL
Fontainebleau Hotel 4441 Collins AvenueMiami Beach, FL 33140 US
This CME symposium will offer approximately 20 hours of continuing medical education and is geared towards nephrologists, pulmonologists, hepatologists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, and allied health professionals dedicated to the treatment and management of transplantation recipients and patients with end-stage organ diseases. The symposium will feature two concurrent educational tracks, Thoracic and Abdominal, both focusing on the appropriate care of transplant recipients and donors before, during, and after transplantation.
Specific topics include:
- Recent advances in adult and pediatric transplantation
- Current and emerging pharmacologic and immunologic strategies for tolerance induction
- Current topics surrounding living donor transplantation
- Current and emerging technologies and medical advances related to organ allocation
- Immunosuppression management strategies in special populations and disease states
- Evidence-based heart failure management guidelines and treatment options to minimize complications
- Referral and transplantation criteria for major transplant indications including COPD, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension
- Emerging therapies in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension
- The new Kidney Allocation System
- Current practice and recent advances within dialysis, nephrology and transplantation
- Current and emerging therapeutic regimens to improve treatment decision-making for transplant recipients with cirrhosis
- Treatment strategies for HCC
- The future of Islet transplantation
- Intestinal transplantation techniques
- New intestinal rehabilitation strategies
Meeting Location
Fontainebleau Hotel
4441 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida 33140
Reservations: 800-548-8886
www.fontainebleau.com
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