Proceedings of the 29th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society

Madhukar S Patel; Sadhana Shankar; Marta Tejedor; Andrew S Barbas; Joohyun Kim; Shennen Mao; Tommy Ivanics; Johns Shaji Mathew; Alexandra Shingina; Mohammad Qasim Khan; Elizabeth A Wilson; Nicholas Syn; Felipe Alconchel; Dhupal Patel; Jiang Liu; David Nasralla; Alessandra Mazzola; Tomohiro Tanaka; David W Victor; Young-In Yoon; Carmen Vinaixa; A Mi Mi Kyaw; Antonio Galante; Paolo Magistri; Manikandan Kathirvel; Daniel Aliseda; Kenan Moral; Tommaso Di Maira; Eleonora De Martin; Ryan Chadha; Abdul Rahman Hakeem; Eliano Bonaccorsi-Riani; Ashwin Rammohan

doi:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000593

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society

Liver Transpl. 2025 Jul 1;31(7):945-955. doi: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000593. Epub 2025 Mar 11.

Authors

Madhukar S Patel¹, Sadhana Shankar², Marta Tejedor³, Andrew S Barbas⁴, Joohyun Kim⁵, Shennen Mao⁶, Tommy Ivanics⁷, Johns Shaji Mathew⁸, Alexandra Shingina⁹, Mohammad Qasim Khan^{10

11}, Elizabeth A Wilson¹², Nicholas Syn¹³, Felipe Alconchel¹⁴, Dhupal Patel¹⁵, Jiang Liu¹⁶, David Nasralla¹⁷, Alessandra Mazzola¹⁸, Tomohiro Tanaka³, David W Victor¹⁹, Young-In Yoon²⁰, Carmen Vinaixa^{21

22}, A Mi Mi Kyaw²³, Antonio Galante²⁴, Paolo Magistri²⁵, Manikandan Kathirvel^{17

26}, Daniel Aliseda²⁷, Kenan Moral²⁸, Tommaso Di Maira^{21

22}, Eleonora De Martin²⁹, Ryan Chadha³⁰, Abdul Rahman Hakeem³¹, Eliano Bonaccorsi-Riani^{32

33}, Ashwin Rammohan²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Surgical Transplantation, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
² Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation, Dr Rela Institute Medical Centre, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁵ Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
⁶ Department of Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
⁷ University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Multi-Organ Transplant & HPB Surgery, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
¹² Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
¹³ Division of Biomedical Informatics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
¹⁴ Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital (IMIB-Pascual Parrilla), Murcia, Spain.
¹⁵ Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁶ Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹⁷ Department of HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery, The Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁸ Sorbonne Université, Unité médicale de transplantation hépatique, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
¹⁹ Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
²⁰ Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
²¹ Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Unit, IIS La Fe and Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
²² CIBERehd, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
²³ Paramishin Hospital Myanmar, Pyay, Myanmar.
²⁴ Istituto mediterraneo per i trapianti e terapie ad alta specializzazione-IRCCS ISMETT, UPMC Italy, Palermo, Italy.
²⁵ Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Surgery, The Whittington Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
²⁷ HPB and Liver Transplant Unit, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Navarra, Spain.
²⁸ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
²⁹ AP-HP, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Centre Hépato- Biliaire, Unité INSERM 1193, Villejuif, France.
³⁰ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
³¹ Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³² Transplantation and Abdominal Surgery Section, Department of Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
³³ Institute de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique-IREC, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 40062745
DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000593

Abstract

The 2024 Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) was from May 1-4 in Houston, Texas, USA, under the theme "Liver Disease and Transplantation: Breaking Barriers and Exploring New Frontiers." In addition to a robust scientific program, the congress also hosted a hands-on cadaveric robotic liver surgery course, a machine perfusion workshop, and a transesophageal echocardiography course. In this report, the ILTS Vanguard and Basic Sciences Committees present a summary of the congress proceedings.

Publication types

Conference Proceedings

MeSH terms

Congresses as Topic
Humans
Liver Transplantation* / methods
Robotic Surgical Procedures / education
Societies, Medical