Please rate the following:
Overall quality of the meeting
Please rate the following objectives. After attending the symposium, how well are you able to:
Identify the major post transplant complications and strategies for managment based on current literature.
Discuss the key findings in basic and translational research in the area of transplantation during 2008.
Review the highlights of kidney, liver, heart and lung symposia.
Review new immunosuppressive agents in clinical studies.
Describe AST Public Policy Committee's impact on proposed federal policies impacting the field of solid organ transplantation,
Discuss important liver transplantation abstracts that were presented orally at the 2008 ATC.
Identify new clinical advances in heart and lung transplantations.
Describe the most recent results from the major clinical trials in kidney transplantation.
Describe the effects of the lung allocation system on the field of lung transplantation.
The program was relevant to my work
Identify strategies to improve post transplant outcomes.
Explain how these findings impact our understanding of the immune response to the allograft.
Review recently published data on new immunosuppressive drugs.
Summarize the Society's annual legislative and regulatory priorities,
Discuss important intestinal transplantation abstracts that were presented orally at the 2008 ATC.
Describe how to translate basic research into clinical practice.
Describe the recent outcomes in pancreas transplantation.
Discuss potential uses of the Immunknow assay.
Content matched stated objectives
Describe how these findings may ultimately affect clinical practice.
Review mechanisms of action of new immunosuppressive drugs.
List AST's recent legislative policy successes and ongoing strategies for success.
Describe complications associated with kidney and pancreas transplantation.
Describe the effects of immunsopressants on de novo HLA antibodies and T regulatory cells.
Usefulness of handouts/AV
Comfort of rooms
