CLBS conferences

Schedule

Future Directions

Day 1	Time	20th September 2024 - FRIDAY	Speakers	Chairpersons
9:15 - 9:45		WELCOME ADDRESS AND INAUGURATION
Session - 1		Minimising Complications
10:00-11:00	10:00-10:15	Towards zero operative mortality in Liver Transplant	Dr. Krish Menon	Dr. Peush Sahni, Dr. Shaleen Agarwal, Dr. Rajgopal, Dr. Rajashekhar
	10:15-10:30	Small for size syndrome: Strategies for prevention	Prof. Mohd Rela
	10:30-10:45	Safe donor hepatectomy	Dr. Viniyendra Pamecha
	10:45-11:00	Renal Dysfunction and LDLT	Dr. Sanjiv Saigal
11:00 - 11:15		Tea
Session - 2		Consensus on Best Practice Guidelines for Biliary Complications in LDLT
11:30-15:00	11:30-12:15	Preoperative Evaluation and Donor Intraoperative Factors	Dr. A. Soin
	12:15-13:00	Recipient Factors	Dr. S. Gupta
	13:00-13:45	Early Biliary Complications	Dr. M. Rela
	13:45-14:30	Late Biliary Complications	Dr. Randhir Sud
	14:30-15:00	Final Voting and Results
15:00 - 15:45		Lunch and Sponsored Talk
15:45 - 16:00		by GSK: Shingles and its prevention in liver transplant and liver diseases	Dr. Monica Mahajan
Session - 3		Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
16:00-17:30	16:00-16:30	Debate: Drug therapy versus Lifestyle modification in Management of MASLD		Dr. Krish Menon, Dr. P. Kar, Dr. Vivek Raj , Dr. Rajesh Dey, Dr. Yuktansh Pandey, dr Akanand singh
	16:00-16:10	In favour of drug therapy	Dr. Kaushal Madan
	16:10-16:20	In favour of Lifestyle Modification	Dr. AC Anand
	16:20-16:30	Rebuttal
	16:30-16:45	Specific issues in MASLD: HCC, Renal and Cardiac dysfunction	Dr. Ravi Chand
	16:45-17:00	Surgery for Weight loss in MASLD	Dr. M. Lakdawala
	17:00-17:15	Alcohol and MASLD	Dr. Anoop Saraya
	17:15-17:30	Management of Diabetes in MASLD	Dr. Ambrish Mithal
19:00 Onwards		Faculty Dinner

DAY 2	Time	21st September 2024 - SATURDAY	Speakers	Chairpersons
Session - 4		Financial Issues in Liver Transplant
8:30-9:45	8:30-8:45	Private public partnership in Liver transplant	Dr Anil Aggarwal	Dr. Samiran Nundy, Dr Peush Sahni, Dr. C.S. Naidu, Dr. Anil Kumar; Dr. Vachan Hukkeri
	8:45-9:00	Home Care in delayed recovery: after transplant feasibility & practicality	Dr. Ravi Mohanka
	9:00-9:15	The government sector LT surgeons should be incentivised	Dr. Abhijit chandra
	9:15-9:30	Donor health insurance	Ms. Pallavi Kumar
Session 5		Newer directions
9:45-11:00	9:45-10:00	AI and ML in LT: will it impact	Dr. Sonal Asthana	Dr. Sanjay Sharma, Dr Pukar Shrestha, Dr. Neeraj Saraf, Dr Naveen Ganjoo, Dr Shabir Ali, Dr. Arunkumar ML
	10:00-10:15	Artificial Liver support	Dr. Rakhi Maiwal
	10:15-10:30	Predicting futility in Liver transplant	Dr Ashok Kumar Choudhury
	10:30-10:45	Reversing fibrosis in cirrhosis	Dr Pankaj Puri
	10:45-11:00	Advances in drugs and vaccines for hepatitis	Dr Bhaskar nandi
11:00 - 11:15		Tea and Sponsored talk
Session - 6		Expanding the Donor Pool
11:15-12:20	11:15-11:30	ABO Incompatible Liver transplant: Ready for prime time	Dr Ashish Singhal	Dr Amit Rastogi, Dr Harsh Jauhari, Dr Gaurav Chaubhal, Dr Kausar Makki, Dr Peeyush Varshney, Dr. Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy
	11:30-11:45	Paired exchange Liver transplant	Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan
	11:45-12:00	Complex anatomy, low remnant and steatosis	Dr. Naimish Mehta
	12:00-12:15	Can a potential liver recipient be a kidney donor and Vice-Versa? - A Kidney transplant surgeon's perspective	Dr. Anant kumar
	12:15-12:30	Can a potential liver recipient be a kidney donor and Vice-Versa?- A liver transplant surgeon's perspective	Dr K.R. Vasudevan
Session - 7		DBD and DCDD donations
12:30-13:30	12:30-12:45	Promoting organ donation in private hospitals	Dr. SK Mathur	Dr Krish Menon, Dr. Sumesh Kaistha, Dr Priya Ranjan, Dr Selva Kumar, Dr. Nishant Pathak
	12:45-13:00	DCDD donation: Role of regional Normothermic perfusion	Dr. Mettu Srinivas Reddy
		DEBATE: Altruism Vs Reward in Deceased Donation
	13:00-13:10	Donor's family must be rewarded	Dr. Harsh Jauhari
	13:10-13:20	Donation should remain altruistic	Dr. Anil Kumar
	13:20-13:30	REBUTTAL
13:30 - 14:00		Lunch
Session - 8		Future Directions in Liver Transplantation
14:00-15:15	14:00-14:15	Stem Cells and regenerative medicine	Dr. Abhijit Chowdhury	Dr Ramdip Ray, Dr Ashish Singhal, Dr. Vikas Singla , Dr. Vijaykant Pandey , Dr sanjoy kumar majhi
	14:15-14:30	Xenotransplantation, Where do we stand in 2024?	Dr. Hidetaka Hara
	14:30-14:45	Minimizing Immunosuppression and Tolerance	Dr Varuna Aluvihare
	14:45-15:00	Minimising nephrotoxicity, malignancy & cardiovascular events, recidivism	Dr. Neerav goyal
	15:00-15:15	Role of ECMO	Dr Sandeep Diwan
Session - 9		Innovative Techniques in Liver Transplant: Video session 1
15:15-16:15	15:15-15:30	Benching	Dr. Kausar Makki	Dr. Sonal Asthana, Dr Krish Menon, Dr. Naimish Mehta, Dr. Neerav Goyal, Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam
	15:30-15:45	Venous anastomosis	Dr. Mohd Nayeem
	15:45-16:00	Hepatic arterial anastomosis	Dr Balbir Singh
	16:00-16:15	Biliary anastomosis	Dr Amit Rastogi
16:15 - 16:30		Tea
Session - 10		Recipient Selection
16:45-18:00	16:45-17:00	Should we transplant ACLF3? and When?	Dr. Prashant Bhangui	Dr Akanand singh , Dr. Shaleen, Dr Sanjiv Saigal, Dr Ravi Mohanka, Dr Abhishek Deo
	17:00-17:15	Complete portal vein thrombosis	Dr. Giriraj Bora
	17:15-17:30	Retransplant	Dr. Manav Wadhawan
	17:30-17:45	Combined versus sequential liver kidney transplant	Dr. Rajasekhar Perumalla
	17:45-18:00	When to transplant in Alcoholic steatohepatitis	Dr. Anil Arora
19:30 Onwards		Gala Dinner

Day 3	Time	22nd September 2024 - Sunday	Speakers	Chairpersons
Session 11		Anaesthetic Considerations
8:30 - 9:45	8:30-8:45	Assessment of Fluid Balance	Dr. Nanda Kumar K.	Dr. Vaibhav Nasa, Dr. Sanjeev Aneja, Dr Piyush Srivastava, Dr Vimi Rewari, Dr Vijay Vohra, Dr Sumit Goyal, Dr Shweta
	8:45-9:00	Non Ischaemic Cardiac Dysfunction in Liver Transplant Recipients	Dr. Chitra Chatterji
	9:00-9:15	Dialyse or not to Dialyse in ALF	Dr. Kamal Kajal
	9:15-9:30	Anaesthetic considerations in ACLF 3	Dr. Pooja Bhangui
	9:30-9:45	Tips and Tricks of Analgesia for Hepatectomy: Open versus Minimally Invasive	Dr. Sohan Solanki
Special Session: Machine Perfusion
	9:45-9:55	Normothermic Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplantation: Lessons Learned and Evolving Trends- United States' Experience	Dr Ashish Singhal	Co-Moderation By Dr Krish Menon and Dr Ashish Singhal
	9:55-10:05	Normothermic Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplantation: Lessons Learned and Evolving Trends- United Kingdom's Experience	Dr Krish Menon
	10:05-10:15	Sponsored Talk: The role of superoxidized solutions in enhancing post-operative outcomes in liver surgery	Dr. Mukesh Kumar
Session 12		Future Directions in Paediatric Liver Transplant
10:15 - 11:15	10:15-10:30	Genetic Testing in Paediatric Hepatology: A Cornerstone in Guiding Diagnosis, Precision Medicine and Prognosis	Dr. Swasti Pal	Moderator: Dr. S.K. Yachha; Chairpersons: Dr Vikram Kumar, Dr Sadhna Lal, Dr Vidyut Bhatia, Dr Sakshi Karkra, Dr Rohan Malik, dr vipul Gautam, Dr kalpana panda
	10:30-10:45	Quality of Life and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Neonates/Infants Post-Liver Transplant	Dr. Nishant Wadhwa
	10:45-11:00	Novel Therapeutic Drugs for Genetic Intrahepatic Cholestasis
	11:00-11:15	Vaccination Challenges in the Children Undergoing Liver Transplant	Dr Neelam Mohan
11:15 - 11:30		Tea
Session 13		Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy: Video Session 2
11:45-13:00	11:45-12:00	Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: Medanta's Experience	Dr. Kamal Yadav	Dr. Elan Kumaran, Dr Prashant Bhangui, Dr Sanjay Goja, Dr Abhijit Chandra, Dr Sreejith
	12:00-12:15	Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: The Rela Institute's Experience	Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam
	12:15-12:30	Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy: The Fortis Method	Dr. Vivek Vij
	12:30-12:45	Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy: The CLBS Modification	Dr. Shaleen Agarwal
	12:45-13:00	Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: The Amrita Experience	Dr. Sudhindhran
13:00 - 13:45		Lunch and Sponsored Talk
Session 14		Advances in HCC-I: Sponsored by SUN PHARMACEUTICALS
13:45-15:00	13:45-14:00	Biopsy in HCC: Necessity, Indications and the Potential of Liquid Biopsy	Dr. Mahesh Goel	Dr Shivendra Singh, Dr Vivek Vij, Dr Anand Khakhar, Dr Anubhav Khāndelwal, Dr Priyanka Singh, Dr Vivek Saxena
	14:00-14:15	Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Treatment for HCC	Dr Ameet Mandot
	14:15-14:30	TARE: Costs, Indications and Results	Dr. Shahnawaz
	14:30-15:00	Debate: Locoregional Therapy for All Before Transplant
	14:30-14:40	In favour	Dr Sanjay S. Baijal
	14:40-14:50	Against	Dr Abhideep Chaudhary
	14:50-15:00	Rebuttal
15:00 - 15:15		Tea
Session 15		Advances in HCC-II: Sponsored by VIATRIS (A Mylan Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.)
15:15-16:15	15:15-15:30	Resection as a downstaging modality before Liver Transplant	Dr Shridhar Sasturkar	Dr. Sadaf, Dr. Atul Sharma, Dr. Sujoy Pal, Dr. Anand Khakhar, Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Dr. Shashwat Sarin
	15:30-15:45	Resection In HCC with tumour thrombosis	Dr. Chirag Desai
	15:45-16:00	Immunotherapy for recurrence of HCC	Dr Bhuvan Chugh
	16:00-16:15	Management of unresectable HCC: Where are we in 2024?	Dr Nagender Sharma
Session 16		Training in HPB and GI Surgery
16:15-17:15	16:15-16:30	IASG must start GI Cancer registry	Dr Rajneesh Kumar Singh	Dr Mihir Mohapatra, Dr Vivek Mangla, Dr Vibha Varma, Dr Nikhil Agarwal
	16:30-16:45	Roadblocks to DNB in HPB Surgery	Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta
	16:45-17:00	GI surgeons must reclaim their Oncology space	Dr. Sujoy Pal
	17:00-17:15	HPB and Liver transplant training should be combined	Dr. Rajesh Dey
17:15 - 17:30		Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks