ILTS & SATA Joint Meeting 2025
Please join us on October 10, 2025 for the
2025 Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation Meeting
jointly organized by the
International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS)
and the
Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA)
San Antonio, TX
On Friday, October 10, 2025
| Registration fees | Before October 10, 2025 | On October 10, 2025 |
| ILTS and SATA members (SCA, SOCCA) | $150 | $180 |
| Non-members | $200 | $250 |
| Reduced fee for non-physicians attendees | $100 | $120 |
Registration website: ILTS-SATA Meeting Registration
2025 ILTS/SATA Perioperative Care in Liver Transplantation
7:15 am – 7:50 am Registration
7:50 am – 8:00 am Welcome and Introduction
8:00 am – 8:55 am How Modern Donor Care Has Changed our Daily Operations
8:00 am – 8:15 am Donor center and DCD donation. Is it a game-changer for LT in the USA?
8:15 am – 8:30 am NRP: Progress and Challenges
8:30 am – 8:45am The ups and downs of machine perfusion: how do DCD donors affect our practice?
8:45 am – 8:55 am Discussion
8:55 am – 9:15 am Break
9:15 am – 10:10 am Challenges of Perioperative Management
9:15 am – 9:30 am How to start a new liver transplant program
9:30 am – 9:45 am Venous Excess Ultrasounds for postoperative assessment after Liver Transplantation
9:45 am – 10:10 am AKI and HRS: why this is stillwsignificant for perioperative care
10:00 am – 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am Pro/Con Debate: How much monitoring do we still need?
10:30 am – 10:50 am A lot: liver transplantation REQUIRES complex monitoring
10:50 am – 11:10 am A little: Liver transplantation DOES NOT REQUIRE complex monitoring
11:10 am – 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break and Workshops
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Case Presentations
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Case 1:
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Case 2:
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm ILTS Cardiovascular Special Interest Group (SIG)
2:15 pm – 2:35 pm Combined liver-lung transplants
2:35 pm – 2:55 pm 2025 Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Update
2:55 pm – 3:10 pm Discussion
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Break
3:20 pm – 4:15 pm The future of transplant anesthesia
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm AI in transplantation: this is just the beginning
3:35 pm – 3:50 pm Are our patients sicker or healthier, are our grafts better or worse?
3:50 pm – 4:05 pm Robotic transplant surgery: first impressions
4:05 pm – 4:15 pm Discussion
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Closing remarks
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Highlights from consensus conference “Safety of Living Donors”
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Address of ILTS president
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Address of SATA president
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks
The 2025 Symposium of the Society for Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia
Sunday, March 23 to Monday, March 24, 2025
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, Honolulu, HI 98101
Registration (with CME credit): https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/r1n184420f1w9d7/
$50 for SATA, SOCCA and SCA members, $150 for non-members, free for trainees
We are grateful for the support for all our sponsors
Sunday, March 23, 2025
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Registration
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Welcome and Introduction
Gebhard Wagener, President SATA – Columbia University, New York, NY
o 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm: Session 1: International Session of the Korean Society of Transplantation Anesthesiologists (KSTA), the Japanese Transplant Anesthesia Society and the Chinese Society of Transplant Anesthesia
Moderators: Gebhard Wagener – Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Tetsuro Saka – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Jiapeng Huang – University of Louisville, KY
Korean Society for Transplant Anesthesia: Lung Transplantation in Korea
- Kyuho Lee – Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Japanese Transplant Anesthesia Society: What is New in Fast-Track Recovery for Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
- Chiaki Baba – National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
Chinese Society of Transplant Anesthesiology: Transplantation in China
- Xiangdong Chen – Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm: Pro/Con debate: Vanguard Committee
Moderators: Ranjit Depashande – Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Arun Uthayashankar – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA
Pro: We should revascularize severe coronary artery disease prior to liver transplant
- Yaroslava Longhitano – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Con: We can revascularize severe coronary artery disease before or after liver transplant
- Elizabeth Wilson – Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Sunday, March 23, 2025 (continued)
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Break
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Cardiothoracic Transplant Anesthesia
Moderator: Kapil Gupta – University of Washington, Seattle, WA NN
VA ECMO for lung transplant
- Brandi Bottiger – Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Continuation of VA ECMO after lung transplant for primary pulmonary hypertension
- Barbara Wilkey – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Organ preservation and DCD for thoracic transplants
- Kathirvel Subramaniam – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Protek duo and ECMO configuration for RV failure
- Michael Franklin – University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm: Session 3: Research session
Moderators: Dieter Adelmann – University of California San Francisco, CA Elizabeth Townsend – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Annual SATA research prize
- The winner of 2025 is…
- Last year’s winner: Tegal Vivek Desain – London Health Sciences Center, Ontario Canada
How do you use MPOG for research
- Nicholas Joseph Douville,
Donor research using MPOG
- Abhijit Lele – University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SATA Transplant Anesthesia Databases
- Heart: Joshua Knight- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
- Lung: Harikesh Subramanian – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
- Liver: Dieter Adelmann- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
What did we learn last year from the transplant anesthesiology literature?
- Ryan Wang – Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Monday, March 24, 2025
8:00 am – 10:00 am: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop for the Transplant Anesthesiologist This workshop requires a separate registration with a maximum of 20 participants. Some POCUS TTE/TEE skills/experience to optimize workflow and learning experience are requested.
Cost: $25/ person; Register here: https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/r1n184420f1w9d7/
Format:
Four Stations, approximately 30 minutes each:
- PoCUS for LV Function Assessment and Lung Ultrasound
- TEE for LV Function Assessment
- TEE for RV Function Assessment
- Case-Based Pathology Review
Faculty: Lorenzo De Marchi – Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Jiapeng Huang -University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Jonathan Paul – Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY; Kapil Gupta – University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Nikhil Chawla – Yale University, New Haven, CT; Ryan Grell, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Oliver Panzer – Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY; Lev Driy – Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Case reports Vanguard Committee
Moderators: Natalie Smith – – Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY Susan Smith – Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Case 1: Management of ICP device insertion in Acute Liver failure
- Junior: Eduardo Mendoza – London Health Sciences Center, Ontario Canada
- Senior: Adrian Hendrickse – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Case 2: Unanticipated need for circulatory arrest in a combined Lung liver transplant
- Junior: Christy He – Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
- Senior: NN
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: The Future of Transplant Anesthesiology
Moderators: Lorenzo De Marchi – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC Ryan Nazemian – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA
Prediction of the future of transplant anesthesiology
- Cara Crouch – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Transplant anesthesiology as part of a transplant institute
- Ted Sakai – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
What is happening with UNOS
- Scott Lindbergh – Houston Methodist Medical Center, Houston, TX
Xenotransplantation
- Philip Sommer – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia “Fellow of the SATA Designation”
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) Board approved the designation and credential “Fellow of the SATA” or FSATA.
This designation indicates the SATA member has demonstrated, “Leadership in Transplant Anesthesia”. The SATA Council said “By offering this designation, anesthesiologists will have another tool to display to their colleagues and the medical community the high-quality proficiency of skills that are required in today’s anesthesiology world.” The SATA thoughtfully developed the criteria for this designation, emphasizing the experience and education of the applicant and peer recommendations. With this designation, we hope to recognize those individuals around the globe who have excelled in various aspects of periprocedural and/or perioperative management.
Eligibility criteria for FSATA include current active physician membership in SATA, a letter of support from a senior level clinician or administrator, a minimum of 5 years of leadership or management experience, a personal statement describing prior experience and qualifications, having attended at least 1 of the last 3 Annual SATA National Meetings.
For more information on the eligibility criteria and application process, please go to the SATA website (http://www.transplantanesthesia.org) or email us at sata@pacainc.com.
About the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia
In 2011, members of the anesthesia community who cared for transplant patients created an informal society allowing participants to share information and ideas designed to improve donor and recipient care. The intent of this society was to harness the enthusiasm and motivation of transplant anesthesiologists to drive innovation in the fields of abdominal and thoracic transplantation and intensive care. The society membership articulated 3 guiding principles: to provide a common meeting ground for scientific development, to increase anesthesia presence in related collegial transplant societies and organizations, and to advocate for the professional interests of transplant anesthesiologists.
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) was legally incorporated in 2016 to solidify a home base for transplant anesthesiologists. SATA endorses the concept that integrating the anesthesiologist into all aspects of transplant patient care and policy development ultimately benefits the best interests of the patients.
Click here to review the Eligibility Criteria
Click here to complete the Fellow of the SATA Application
SATA REGIONAL DMV-P ANNUAL MEETING 2025
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session participants will be able to:
1. Describe contemporary approach to management of patients with alcoholic liver disease.
2. Discuss xenotransplantation as a novel approach to optimize organ supply.
3. Optimize intraoperative management of patients undergoing transplantation.
4. Develop systematic approach to using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in
managing patients undergoing lung transplantation.
5. Evaluate the role of albumin administration in patients with end-stage organ disease.
6. Discuss challenges presenting to transplant anesthesiologist during complex cases.
Target audience:
Anesthesiologists, Intensivists, Surgeons, Hepatologists, Cardiologists, Fellows, Resident, Medical
Students, Nurse anesthetists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Anesthesiologist Assistants, Physician
Assistants, and Nursing staff who are involved in the perioperative care of transplant patients.
Core Faculty:
Aliaksei Pustavoitau, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University)
Lorenzo De Marchi, MD (Georgetown University)
Katherine Forkin, MD (University of Virginia)
Steve Frank, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
Andrew Gold, MD (University of Pennsylvania)
Samhati Mondal, MD (University of Maryland)
Sergio Navarrete, DO (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Anita Vincent, MD (Georgetown University)
Uzung Yoon, MD (Thomas Jefferson University)
Additional Faculty listing:
Juan Pablo Arab Verdugo, MD (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Erik Strauss, MD (University of Maryland)
Adam Seibert, MD (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Katherine Forkin, MD (University of Virginia)
Stephanie Cha, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
Lane Pope, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
Chris Simmons, CRNA (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Eryn Thiele, MD (University of Virginia)
Registration: https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/r1ikj4up1v6bykr/
Registration Fee: free to both faculty and participants
AGENDA
February 8, 2025: 10:25 am – 3:30 pm
Chevy Chase Auditorium, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
10:25 am – 10:30 am Welcome and Introduction
Aliaksei Pustavoitau, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University)
10:30 am -11:20 am Session one: Preoperative Evaluation and Optimization
Moderator: Samhati Mondal, MBBS (University of Maryland)
10:30 am – 10:50 am Alcoholic liver disease.
Speaker: Juan Pablo Arab Verdugo, MD (Virginia Commonwealth
University)
10:50 am – 11:10 am Xenotransplantation.
Speaker: Erik Strauss, MD (University of Maryland)
11:10 am – 11:20 am Q&A
11:20 am – 11:30 am Presidential Address – Gebhard Wagener, MD (Columbia University)
11:30 am – 11:35 am Break
11:35 am – 12:30 pm Session two: Intraoperative Challenges
Moderator: Uzung Yoon, MD (Thomas Jefferson University)
11:35 am – 11:55 am Analgesia for transplant.
Speaker: Adam Seibert, MD (Virginia Commonwealth University)
11:55 am – 12:15 pm What’s New in Coagulation Management in Liver Transplantation
Speaker: Katherine Forkin, MD (University of Virginia)
12:15 am – 12:35 pm Pulmonary complications of massive transfusion (including TRALI and
the need for ECMO). Speaker: Steve Frank, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
12:35 pm – 12:50 pm Q&A
12:50 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm Session three: Organ Support and Critical Care
Moderator: Steve Frank, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm Extracorporeal support during lung transplant.
Speaker: Stephanie Cha, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm Albumin: role in resuscitation and management in liver and thoracic
organ’s transplantation
Speaker: Lane Pope, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
2:10 pm – 2:20 pm Q&A
2:20 pm – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm – 3:25 pm Session four: Challenging Cases
Moderator: Anita Vincent (Georgetown University)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Case 1
Speaker: Chris Simmons, CRNA (Virginia Commonwealth University)
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Case 2
Speaker: Eryn Thiele, MD (University of Virginia)
3:10 pm – 3:25pm Q&A
3:25 pm – 3:30 pm Closing Remarks: Lorenzo De Marchi, MD (Georgetown University)