Program

07:45 - 10:00: Registration open

Welcome Address

08:30 - 08:35:  Dieter C. Broering

08:35 - 08:40:  Enrico Benedetti

08:40 - 08:45:  Dimitri Raptis: Live Demonstrations and Video Contest Overview

08:00 - 18:00: Live Surgical Demonstrations and Video Contest

Video Contest Nominations

1. Mohamed Eltemamy - Pediatric Single Port Robotic Kidney Transplantation

2. Mario Spaggiari - Robotic Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplant

3. Phillipe Abreu - Robotic Pancreas Transplant

4. Mohamed Rela - Robotic Right Donor Hepatectomy

5. Fabrizio Di Benedetto - Robotic Right Donor Hepatectomy

6. Safi Dokmak - Laparoscopic Assisted Liver Transplantation

7. Adeel Khan - Robotic Liver Transplant with Variant Anatomy

8. Hugo Pinto Marques - Fully Robotic Whole Graft Liver Transplantation

9. Amadeo Marcos - Robotic Left Graft Liver Transplant

10. Albert Jauregui - Robotic Lung Transplant

11. Liza Johannesson - Robotic Living Donor Uterus Transplant

12. Nima Nassiri & Inderbir Gil - Robotic Bladder Autotransplantation

13. Feras Khaliel - Robotic Heart Transplant
 

07:45 - 10:00: Registration

08:30 - 09:00: Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address

Introduction: Enrico Benedetti

Introduction Dieter C. Broering 

Welcome address: Majid Alfayyad, CEO, King Faisal Specialist Hospital 

Video Contest: Announcement of the three winners.

09:00 - 09:20: Special Lecture: Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Surgery, Chicago, IL, USA. Shaping the future of surgery with robotic systems in all operating rooms

09:20 - 09:30: Introduction to the Consensus Conference: Elizabeth A. Pomfret, Aurora, CO, USA: The Danish Model, GRADE Approach, and Voting Guidelines

Jury Members: Andreas Mayr, Akio Saiura, Claus Niemann, Elmi Muller, Mamdouh Alenazi, Michael Lesurtel, Nazia Selzner, Saleh A Alqahtani

09:30 – 12:20: Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy Consensus Sessions

09:30 – 10:00: 1. How to establish a minimally invasive donor hepatectomy program and what  are the optimal selection criteria for donors undergoing minimally invasive hepatectomy to ensure favorable outcomes for both donors and recipients?

Session Chairs: Elizabeth Pomfret , Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Hugo Pinto Marques, Ahmed Marwan

Panel Leader: Mohamed Rela, Surgery, Chennai, India 

Panel Members:

Ashwin Rammohan, Surgery, Chennai, India                                        

Bandar Aljudaibi, Hepatology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Susumu Eguchi, Surgery, Nagasaki, Japan

Surendran Sudhindran, Surgery, Kochi, India

Talia Baker, Surgery, Chicago, IL, USA

Young-In Yoon, Surgery, Seoul, South Korea

10:00 - 10:30: 2. How should anesthesia protocols be adapted for minimally invasive donor hepatectomy to enhance patient safety and postoperative recovery?

Session Chairs: Fuat H. Saner, Nandor, Marczin, Naoufal Zebdi          

Panel Leader: Michael Spiro, Anesthesia, London, UK

Panel Members:

Dmitri Bezinover, Anesthesia, Hershey, PA, USA

Ecaterina Scarlatescu Anesthesia, Bucharest, Romania

Pooja Bhangui, Anesthesia, Delhi, India 

Stuart McCluskey, Anesthesia, Toronto, ON, Canada

Thomas Fernandez, Anesthesia, Auckland, New Zealand

10:30 - 11:00: 3. What are the most effective and safe surgical techniques in minimally invasive donor hepatectomy for optimizing donor and recipient outcomes?

Session Chairs: Mohamed Rela, Roberto Troisi, Kim Olthof, Ahmed M. Elsabbagh

Panel Leader: Dong Sik Kim, Surgery, Seoul, South Korea

Panel Members:

Kwang-Woong Lee, Surgery, Seoul, South Korea

Rajesh Rajalingam, Surgery, Chennai, India

Safi Dokmak, Surgery, Paris, France

Yao-Ming Wu, Surgery, Tapei, Taiwan

11:00 - 11:20:  Coffee Break

11:20 - 11:50: 4. What Intensive Care / High Dependency / Intermediate Medical Care Unit strategies are crucial for optimizing outcomes in donors post-minimally invasive hepatectomy?

Session Chairs: Dmitri Bezinover, Pooja Bhangui, Stuart McCluskey, Amadeo Marcos

Panel Leader: Fuat Saner, Intensive Care, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Panel Members:  

Akila Rajakumar, Intensive Care, Chennai, India

Annabel Blasi, Anesthesia, Barcelona, Spain

Gebhard Wagener, Intensive Care, New York, NY, USA

11:50 - 12:20: 5. What are the key considerations in postoperative management to ensure the best outcomes for donors following minimally invasive hepatectomy?

Session Chairs: Kim Olthof, Massimo Malago, Sandy Feng, Hany Said Abd Elbaset

Panel Leader: Olivier Soubrane, Surgery, Paris, France

Panel Members:  

Arvinder Singh Soin, Surgery, Delhi, India    

Mark Ghobrial, Surgery, Houston, TX, USA

Saad Alghamdi, Hepatology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Talia Baker, Surgery, Chicago, IL, USA

Varvara A. Kirchner, Surgery, Stanford, CA, USA

Young-In Yoon, Surgery, Seoul, South Korea

12:20 - 12:50: Minimally Invasive Recipient Liver Transplant Consensus Session

6. What are the comprehensive strategies and critical considerations across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to enhance the success and outcomes of minimally invasive liver transplantation for recipients?

Session Chairs: Pierre-Alain Clavien, Julie Heimbach, Jean Emond, Arvinder Singh Soin

Panel Leader: Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Surgery, Modena, Italy

Panel Members:  

Adeel S. Khan, Surgery, St. Louis, MO, USA

Fuat Saner, Intensive Care, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hugo Pinto Marques, Surgery, Lisbon, Portugal

Kyung-Suk Suh, Surgery, Seoul, South Korea

Paolo Magistri, Surgery, Modena, Italy  

12:50 - 13:50:  Lunch Break – Sponsored Satellite Symposium 

13:50 - 15:20: Minimally Invasive Donor Nephrectomy Consensus Sessions

13:50 - 14:20: 7. What criteria define the optimal selection of donors for nephrectomy to maximize safety, short as well as long-term outcomes for both donors and recipients?

Session Chairs: Hassan Aleid, Michael Spiro, Gebhard Wagener

Panel Leader: Inderbir Gill, Surgery, San Francisco, CA, USA

Panel Members:  

Frank Dor, Surgery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Khalid Bin Saad, Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Nima Nassiri, Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Phillipe Abreu, Surgery, Denver, CO, USA

14:20 - 14:50: 8. Which surgical techniques in donor nephrectomy provide the best balance between minimally invasive approaches for the donor as well as optimal outcomes for recipients?

Session Chairs: Robert Montgomery, Inderbir Gill, Karel Decaestecker

Panel Leader: Lloyd Ratner, Surgery, New York, NY, USA

Panel Members:  

Frank Dor, Surgery, Rotterdam, Netherlands 

Lucrezia Furian, Surgery, Padova, Italy

Phillipe Abreu, Surgery, Denver, CO, USA

14:50 - 15:20: 9. What are the key considerations in postoperative management to ensure the best outcomes for donors following minimally invasive nephrectomy?

Session Chairs: Lloyd Ratner, Khalid Bin Saad, Mohammad Ali Ghnaimat

Panel Leader: Hassan Aleid, Nephrology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Panel Members:  

Eric Martinez, Surgery, Dallas, TX, USA 

Karel Decaestecker, Surgery, Ghent, Belgium

Phillipe Abreu, Surgery, Denver, CO, USA

15:20 - 15:40: Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:40: Minimally Invasive Recipient Kidney Transplant Consensus Session

10. What are the comprehensive strategies and critical considerations across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to enhance the success and outcomes of minimally invasive recipient kidney transplantation?

Session Chairs: Mario Spaggiari, Eric Martinez, Lucrezia Furian

Panel Leader: Ivo G. Tzvetanov, Surgery, Chicago, IL, USA

Panel Members:  

Atsushi Yoshida, Surgery, Detroit, MI, USA

Chandra Bhat, Surgery, Baltimore, MD, USA

Mohamed Eltemamy, Surgery, Cleveland, OH, USA

Phillipe Abreu, Surgery, Denver, CO, USA

Pranjal R. Modi, Surgery, Gujarat, India

Rodrigo Vianna, Surgery, Miami, FL, USA 

16:40 - 17:00: Closing Remarks 

17:30 - 23:00: Gala Dinner
 

07:45 - 10:00:  Registration

08:30 - 08:40: Introduction:Dieter Broering and Enrico Benedetti

08:40 - 09:00: Special Lecture: Robert Montgomery, New York, NY, USA. 

Innovating Transplant Medicine: Strategies for Safe and Effective Implementation

Jury Members: Andreas Mayr, Akio Saiura, Claus Niemann, Elmi Muller, Mamdouh Alenazi, Michael Lesurtel, Nazia Selzner, Saleh A Alqahtani

09:00 - 09:30: Minimally Invasive Recipient Pancreas Transplant Consensus Session

11. What are the comprehensive strategies and critical considerations across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to enhance the success and outcomes of minimally invasive recipient pancreas transplant?

Session Chairs: Giuliano Testa, Ivo G. Tzvetanov, Rodrigo Vianna

Panel Leader: Mario Spaggiari, Surgery, Chicago, IL, USA

Panel Members:  

Ugo Boggi, Surgery, Pisa, Italy

Phillipe Abreu, Surgery, Denver, CO, USA

09:30 - 09:50: Coffee Break

09:50 - 10:20: Minimally Invasive Lung Transplantation Consensus Session

12. What are the comprehensive strategies and critical considerations across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to enhance the success and outcomes of minimally invasive recipient lung transplantation?

Session Chairs: Khaled Alkattan, Thomas M.A. Fernandez, Ecaterina Scarlatescu

Panel Leader: Alberto J Abularach, Surgery, Barcelona, Spain

Panel Members: 

Dominick Megna, Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Nandor Marczin, Anesthesia, Harefield, UK

Naoufal Zebdi, Anesthesia, Barcelona, Spain

Pedro Catarino, Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Reinaldo E. Rampolla, Pulmonology, Los Angeles, CA, USA

10:20 - 10:50: Minimally Invasive Heart Transplantation Consensus Session

13. How can minimally invasive cardiac surgery techniques be adapted for heart transplantation to reduce trauma, select initial patients effectively, address surgical challenges, and ensure optimal postoperative recovery and success?

Session Chairs: Khaled Alkattan, Fuat H. Saner, Akila Rajakumar

Panel Leader: Feras Khaliel, Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Panel Members:

Mohammed Alreshidan, Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Aly M. Alsanei, Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Vinay Badhwar, Surgery, Morgantown, WV USA

Zain Khalpey, Surgery, Boston, MA, USA  

10:50 - 11:10: Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:00: Minimally Invasive Uterus Transplantation Consensus Session

14. How can minimally invasive techniques for uterus donor retrieval and transplantation be optimized in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to improve outcomes for both donors and recipients

Session Chairs: Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Ugo Boggi, Phillipe Abreu

Panel Leader: Giuliano Testa, Surgery, Dallas, Texas, USA

Panel Members:  

Liza Johannesson, Surgery, Dallas, TX, USA

Luiz Carvalho, Reproductive Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil   

Marcelo de Andrade Vieira, Surgery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Niclas Kvarnström, Surgery, Gothenburg, Sweden

Pernilla Dahm-Kähler, Surgery, Gothenburg, Sweden

12:00 - 12:20: Special Lecture: Pierre-Alain Clavien, Zurich, CH 

From Consensus to Clinical Practice: Measuring the Impact of Clinical Recommendations

12:20 - 12:30: Closing Remarks

12:30 - 13:00: Lunch 

Al Opal Room – InterContinental Hotel Riyadh – Max. Capacity 18 Delegates – Free Entrance

10:00 - 13:30: Jury Meeting to Form the Final MIOT.cc Recommendations 

Exclusively for Jury and Writing Committee Members. Coffee & Snacks available 

14:00 - 16:00: Virtual International LDLT Registry (LDLTregistry.org) Symposium

Explore initial findings from LDLTregistry.org, accessible globally via Zoom

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break and Snacks 

16:30 - 18:30: Virtual HeALgroup.AI (Healthcare AI Language Group) Symposium

Review current and future AI projects in healthcare, accessible globally via Zoom

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