Chandigarh, March 18
The Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, PGIMER, is proud to host the annual conference of the Indian Society of Transplant Surgeons (ISTS) from March 19 to 21. Delegates are expected from premier transplant centres across India, joined by international faculty and speakers from all over the country.
The day 1 opens with two parallel workshops. The Multi-Organ Retrieval & Benching Workshop offers cadaveric hands-on training in liver hilar dissection, kidney en-bloc/split, and pancreas basics, with vascular suturing stations under faculty guidance. The Dialysis Vascular Access Workshop covers fistula creation, USG-guided angioplasty, and hands-on ultrasound and angioplasty simulation.
The highlight of Day 1 will be the prestigious Keynote oration, ‘From Civil Hospital to Transplant University’, delivered by Dr. Pranjal Modi on 19 March at 4:00 PM, APC Auditorium. Dr. Modi’s journey from a resource-limited civil hospital to building one of India’s foremost transplant programmes embodies the ISTS ethos.
The day 2 has the scientific programme which spans the full spectrum of solid organ transplantation. Eminent International faculty including Prof. Nicos Kessaris (Guy’s Hospital London) and Dr. Ioannis Loukopoulos will be discussing operative techniques in transplantation. A dedicated afternoon session on covers pancreas retrieval, benching, implantation, and a round-table on Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney (SPK) transplantation.
The day 3 features sessions on transplant immunology (HLA eplets, rejection pathology, tacrolimus pharmacokinetics), paediatric transplantation, normothermic machine perfusion, and policy discussions on THOTA 2014 reforms and Paired Kidney Exchange.
