Meetings and Courses

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Shui-Ying Lei

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March

IPTA 8th congress on pediatric transplantation

March 28-31, 2015; Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA

This meeting is designed for physicians, surgeons, and transplant professionals who are interested in the clinical and research aspects for pediatric solid organ, tissue, and bone marrow/stem cell transplantation. A variety of formats are planned that will encourage the exchange of new scientific and clinical information and support interchange of opinions, regarding care and management issues, as well as socioeconomic, ethical, and regulatory issues relevant to organ and tissue transplantation in children. This congress will highlight the most recent advances in clinical and basic science related to pediatric transplantation; provide a forum for exchange of new scientific and clinical information relevant to pediatric solid organ and tissue transplantation; create an arena for the interchange of ideas regarding care and management of pediatric organ and tissue transplant recipients; and facilitate discussions on the socioeconomic, ethical, and regulatory issues related to pediatric solid organ and tissue transplantation. For more information, please visit: http://2015.iptaonline.org/.

April

2015 international conference on liver failure and artificial liver

April 9-11, 2015; Haikou, China

Sponsored by Group of Liver Failure and Artificial Liver, Branch of Infectious Diseases of Chinese Medical Association, the 8th international conference on liver failure and artificial liver will be held at Haikou, Hainan, China in March, 2015. On the occasion, well-known experts in liver diseases, infectious diseases and blood purification will be invited to comprehensively introduce the latest research achievements and difficulties in the field of liver failure and artificial liver. Topics include, but are not limited to: 1) Pathogenesis and early diagnosis of liver failure; 2) Medical and surgical treatment of liver failure; 3) Blood purification in liver failure; 4) Clinical use of artificial liver; 5) Artificial liver and liver transplantation; 6) Construction of artificial liver supporting system (ALSS); 7) Progress of ALSS treating liver cirrhosis; 8) Progress of ALSS treating other severe liver diseases; 9) Nursing during ALSS treatment; 10) Complication and its prevention during ALSS treatment; 11) Research progress of biological ALSS; 12) ALSS treatment of other diseases; 13) Other related topics. Participants will be awarded National Continuing Education I Class Credit. The accepted papers will be collected in conference proceedings, and will be recommended for publication inChinese Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases,Chinese Journal of HepatologyandChinese Journal of Infectious Diseases. The deadline for submission of manuscript is February 28, 2015. For more information, please contact: Fax: +86-571-87236590; Email: jiajiatale@163.com, or zdhla@126.com.

AACR annual meeting 2015

April 18-22, 2015; Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA

Program committee chairperson is Lewis C. Cantley, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. The AACR annual meeting is the most comprehensive cancer research meeting in the world, where the latest and most exciting basic, translational, and clinical discoveries are presented. It is a unique opportunity for members of the cancer research community to learn about cuttingedge advances, obtain feedback on their own research, and make connections that will foster future collaborations. The program covers every aspect of cancer-from epidemiology, molecular biology, clinical studies, and prevention to survivorship and patient advocacy. For more information, please visit: http://www.aacr.org/ Meetings/Pages/MeetingDetail.aspx?EventItemID=25#. VBfhQ9KSywU.

50th the international liver congress 2015 EASL

April 22-26, 2015; Vienna, Austria

The European Association for the Study of the Liver has selected the city of Vienna for its 50th annual congress "The International Liver Congress?", which will take place on April 22-26, 2015 at Reed Messe, Vienna, Austria. State-of-the-art scientific programme includes Symposia, Workshops, Postgraduate Courses, Basic Science Seminar, Forums, Young Investigator Dedicated Sessions, Nurse & Associates Forum, and Abdominal Sonography Course.For Registration/housing, please contact: ILC2015.reg@ mci-group.com; for general enquiries, please contact: secretariat_ilc2015@easloffice.eu.

May

2015 international congress on ultrasonics (ICU)

May 10-14, 2015; Metz, France

The congress will be held at l'Arsenal and is hosted by Georgia Tech Lorraine in collaboration with the French Acoustical Society. The 2015 ICU will gather the very top researchers in the field of ultrasonics and will present a modern scientific program combining established research topics in combination with the newest emerging subjects. For more information, please visit: http://2015-icu-metz.gatech.edu/.

June

The global viral hepatitis summit--15th international symposium on viral hepatitis and liver disease

June 26-28, 2015; Berlin, Germany

The 15th international symposium on viral hepatitis and liver disease will be held together with the 12th annual meeting of the German national network of competence on viral hepatitis (Hep-Net) and the 1st international symposium of the hepatitis section of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). This symposium is organized every three years moving around the continents. Basic scientists and clinicians will discuss the most recent advances to combat this very important global health burden caused by all hepatitis viruses. The deadline for abstract submission is March 9, 2015. For more information, please visit: http://www.isvhld2015.org.

July

ILTS 21st annual international congress

July 8-11, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA

The goal of this congress is to broaden the education of scientists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, physicians, nurses, and organ procurement personnel in the care and treatment of liver transplant patients. Abstracts can be submitted in the following categories: acute liver failure; anesthesia/critical care medicine; basic science; extended criteria donor/disease transmission; hepatitis B/C; immunosuppression; living donor; malignancies; outcomes; patient selection/organ allocation/organ recovery; pediatrics; radiology/interventional radiology; recurrent disease/pathology; surgical techniques/complications; and surgical videos. Abstracts will be accepted to be presented in the following formats: Rising Star Symposium; Plenary; Concurrent; Poster; and Surgical Videos. The ILTS is an international society of transplant professionals and we support the international standards of informed, uncoerced, consent of organ donors and prohibitions on trafficking of organ donors for profit. The official language of the congress is English. Abstract submission deadline is January 7, 2015. Registration and housing is to be open in February, 2015. For more information, please visit: http://2015.ilts.org.

September

27th European congress of pathology (Pathologybreaking barriers in medicine)

September 5-9, 2015; Sava Center, Belgrade, Seria

The theme for the 2015 ECP congress, Pathologybreaking barriers in medicine is therefore very timely: pathologists have many interactions with other disciplines and its developments have influences on medical decision in everyday practice. The congress will have the organ-based session as programmed by working groups, the special session on teaching, quality assessment and public awareness, and of course the key-note lectures enlighten pathologists on developments outside pathology, but influencing pathologists very much. The official language of the congress is English. For more information, please visit: http://www.esp-congress.org/.

The European cancer congress 2015

September 25-29, 2015; Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre, Vienna, Austria

The 18th ECCO-40th ESMO European cancer congress will combine the united efforts of all partner organisations to continue positioning multidisciplinarity as the way forward for improving the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer patients-placing the patient at the heart of all our efforts and discussions. For more information, please contact: Congress Secretariat, c/o ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation, Avenue E. Mounier 83, B-1200 Brussels. Tel: +32-2-775-02-01; Fax: +32-2-775-02-00; Email: ecc2015@ecco-org.eu. Website: http://www.europeancancercongress.org/.

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