SATA 2025 Midwest Regional Meeting
Learning Objectives:
- Examine and review regional anesthesia options for abdominal organ transplantation.
- Describe the recommendations from SATA’s upcoming white paper for point-of-care ultrasound utilization in abdominal transplantations.
- Summarize anesthetic considerations for intestinal transplantation.
- Discuss the challenges of pediatric liver transplantation and compare special considerations in pediatric/adult liver transplant.
- Summarize the role of preoperative evaluation tools in predicting outcomes following heart transplant.
- Review outcomes data in cardiac transplantation based on donor type and examine special considerations for normothermic regional perfusion in cardiac transplantation.
- Summarize and evaluate outcomes in heart transplantation in patients with mechanical circulatory support.
Target Audience:
Anesthesiologists, intensivists, surgeons, fellows, residents, medical students, nurse anesthetists, advanced practice nurses, anesthesiologist assistants, physician assistants, and nursing staff who are involved in the perioperative care of transplant patients.
Faculty Listing:
- Richa Dhawan, MD,MPH, FASA, FASE – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Cale Kassel, MD, FASA – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
- Brian Cacioppo, MD – University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
- Maireen Miravite, MD – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
- Ryan Grell, MD – University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
- Charles Walcutt, MD – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
- Trevor Wilke, MD – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
- Katherine Kozarek, MD – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Gebhard Wagener, MD – Columbia University, New York NY
- Kristin Trela, MD – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Danisa Daubenspeck, DO – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Jeffrey Songster, MD – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
- Sudhakar Subramani MD, MMed, FASE – UCI Health, Orange, CA
2025 Program organizing institution
University of Nebraska (Meeting Chair: Cale Kassel, MD FASA)
Senior Meeting Regional Chair: Richa Dhawan, MD MPH FASA FASE
Platform: Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation
Registration Link: SATA – 2025 Midwest Regional Meeting
Registration Fee: Free
PROGRAM
8:55 – 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction
Richa Dhawan MD, MPH, FASE & Cale Kassel MD, FASA
9:00 – 9:50 AM Liver Transplantation Session
(Moderator: Brian Cacioppo MD)
9:00 – 9:25 AM Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Maireen Miravite MD
9:25 – 9:50 AM POCUS for Transplant Anesthesiologists
Ryan Grell MD
9:50 – 10:40 AM Abdominal Organ Transplantation Session
(Moderator: Richa Dhawan MD, MPH, FASE)
9:50 – 10:15 AM Anesthetic Considerations for Intestinal Transplantation
Charles Walcutt MD
10:15 – 10:40 AM Regional Anesthesia for Abdominal Transplantation
Trevor Wilke MD
10:40 – 10:50 AM SATA President Address
Gebhard Wagner M.D.
10:50 – 11:05 AM BREAK
11:05 AM-12:20 PM Heart Transplantation Session
(Moderator: Sudhakar Subramani MD, MMed, FASE, Kristin Trela MD)
11:05 – 11: 30 AM Pre-Operative Evaluation & Outcomes after OHT
Danisa Daubenspeck DO
11:30 – 11: 50 AM Donor Type and Clinical Outcomes in OHT
Jeff Songster MD
11:50 AM–12:20 PM Outcomes after Heart Transplantation in Patients with MCS
Katherine L. Kozarek MD
12:20-12:30 PM Closing Remarks
Cale Kassel MD
SATA West Coast Regional Meeting
SATA WEST COAST
ANNUAL LIVER TRANSPLANT ANESTHESIA
MEETING 2024
SATURDAY, DEC 14TH, 2024, 9:00 – 15:00 (PST)
Course Syllabus
Course overview:
This SATA regional meeting is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) meeting that has been designed to provide
a broad spectrum of clinicians a review of the latest updates on a variety of intra-operative and critical
care management topics in liver transplant anesthesia.
Learning objectives:
1. To review the useful ultrasound techniques (POCUS/TTE) for liver transplantation.
2. To review the normothermic regional perfusion in liver transplantation.
3. To review the anesthesia management for complex transplantations.
4. To understand the practice management strategy for liver transplant in major academic centers.
5. To share and understand how to create and manage liver transplant rotation for anesthesia resident
6. To review the various research in liver transplantation.
Target audience:
Specialists working in organ transplantation (e.g., transplant anesthesiologists, intensivists, transplant
surgeons, other transplant medicine specialists, and CRNAs) and trainees (e.g., residents, fellows;
medical students, nursing students).
Registration: https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/m1iwlb71mvqhqa/
Registration Fee:
US $35 (* Free registration for trainees, medical students, or nursing specialists).
Meeting format: Hybrid (In-person and virtual)
(* You will receive the meeting access to virtual format after registration).
Meeting venue:
Room CS-0101,
UCSF Clinical Science Building
521 Parnassus Ave,
San Francisco, CA 94143
Organizing institutions and program committee members:
Kyota Fukazawa – University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Christine Nguyen-Buckley – University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Alexandra Ruan – Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Nicholas Mendez – University of California, San Francisco, CA
Timetable:
09:00 – 09:10
(10 min)
Welcome & Introduction
Kyota Fukazawa – University of Washington
CT 09:10 -09:50
(40 min)
Session 1: POCUS/TEE Technique in Liver Transplantation
Moderator: Ruan Alexandra – Stanford University
09:10 – 09:40
(30 min)
POCUS/TEE Technique in Liver Transplantation
Marianne Chen – Stanford University
09:40 – 09:50
(10 min)
Discussion & Questions
09:50 – 10:30
(40 min)
Session 2: Preservation Techniques in Liver Transplantation
Moderator: Nicholas Mendez – University of California San Francisco
09:50 – 10:20
(30 min)
Update on Advanced Liver Preservation Techniques
Garrett Roll – University of California San Francisco
10:20 – 10:30
(10 min)
Discussion & Questions
10:30 – 10:40
(10 min)
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:30
(70 min)
Session 3: Anesthesia Management for Complex Transplantation
Christine Nguyen-Buckley – University of California Los Angeles
10:40 – 11:00
(20 min)
Combined Heart – Liver Transplantation
Colby Tanner-University of California Los Angeles
11:00 – 11:20
(20 min)
Multi-organ Transplantations
Michael Chen – Stanford University
11:20 – 11:30
(10 min)
Discussion & Questions
11:30 – 12:00
(30 min)
Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:40
(40 min)
Session 4: Expert Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kate Kronish – University of California San Francisco
12:00 – 13:00
(60 min)
PART 1: Practice Management in Liver Transplant Anesthesia
Moderator: Chris Wray – University of California Los Angeles
● Chris Wray – University of California Los Angeles
● Jennifer Cutler – Cedars-Sinai
● Ashraf Sedra – University of Southern California
● Alexandra Ruan- Stanford University
● Kate Kronish – University of California San Francisco
● Joshua Cohen – California Pacific Medical Center
● Malik Sunny – US Anesthesia Partners
13:00 – 13:40
(40 min)
PART 2: Liver Transplant Rotation for Anesthesia Resident
Moderator: Marianne Chen – Stanford University
● Christina Ma – University of California Los Angeles
● Coby Tanner – University of California Los Angeles
● Steve Vanhoy – University of Washington
● Marianne Chen – Stanford University
● Cara Crouch – University of Colorado
13:40 – 13:50
(10 min)
Discussion & Questions
13:50 – 14:05
(15 min)
Coffee Break
14:05 – 14:50
(45 min)
Session 5: Frontiers in Transplant Research
Moderator: Dieter Adelmann – University of California San Francisco
14:05 – 14:20
(15 min)
PART 1: Updates for SATA Transplant Database Project
Dieter Adelmann – University of California San Francisco
14:20 – 14:50
(30 min)
PART 2: Research Abstract Presentations
1. Esophageal warming reduces intraoperative hypothermia during liver
transplantation: a single-center post-hoc analysis of the MHALT clinical trial
Anthony Phero – University of California San Francisco
2. Navigating Anesthetic Complexities: Liver Transplantation in Budd-Chiari
Syndrome
Asad H Bashir – University of Florida
14:50 – 15:00
(10 min)
Closing Remarks/President’s Address
Gebhard Wagener – SATA President
Sponsors
Thank you for supporting the 2024 SATA West Coast Annual Liver transplant Anesthesia Meeting:
2025 SATA Seed Grant Funding Mechanism!
We invite you to submit your application for the 2025 Seed Grant!
Grant Description
The SATA Seed Grant is a one-year, $5,000 starter grant for transplant projects, open to junior faculty members and trainee physicians (residents and fellows). This grant aims to inspire and assist aspiring faculty/trainee physicians in initiating a transplant-related research project. It is specifically intended for projects that have not previously received extramural / non-departmental funding. Recipients must have sufficient departmental support to complete the project within one year.
Application/Grant Cycle Timeline
| October 11, 2024 | Announcement of the grant |
| November 4 – December 2, 2024 | Proposal Submission (Phase 1) |
| December 18, 2024 | Invitations to submit full proposals will be sent out |
| January 20, 2025 | Submission deadline for full proposals (Phase 2) |
| February 19, 2025 | Announcement of the awardee and send letters of feedback to the other applicants |
| March 23, 2025 | Project presentation at SATA National Meeting in Honolulu, HI |
| July 1, 2025 | Grant initiation |
| December 2025 | Submission of the mid-term report |
| August 2026 | Submission of the final report |
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must:
- Be a current member of the SATA.
- Have received no prior extramural (“outside”) research funding for this specific project.
- Be a trainee (resident/fellow) with dedicated research time or faculty within ten years of their first appointment.
- Present an original project idea.
- Name a mentor and submit a mentoring plan (only required for Trainees and Faculty within three years of their initial appointment)
- Have the full support of the Department Chair, who must sign off on the grant application if awarded.
- Have the full support of the Program Director if the applicant is a trainee.
- Submit a budget plan. This grant does not cover overhead or salaries, as it is a starter grant. While the SATA Seed Grant cannot be applied to salary support, it can be used to support costs for professional services from salaried professionals that are essential for the planning or execution of the project (e.g., statistician fees).
- Agree to present the completed study (or a progress report) at the SATA National Meeting following the award, including a financial report detailing how the grant was used.
- When submitting a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal for publication, the investigators must acknowledge SATA Seed Grant funding.
Application requirements, instructions, and process.
The grant application must include the following and must be submitted to sata@pacainc.com:
Phase 1:
- Letter of Intent
To include:
- Project Title
- Name of the Investigator & Mentor
- Description of the Proposed Research (500-word limit).
Structure:- Background & Significance (2 paragraphs)
- Specific Aim (1 paragraph)
- Methods (1-2 paragraphs)
- Applicant Biosketch
- (NIH Biosketch), including a personal statement tailored to this application.
Phase 2:
The SATA Research Committee will select three submissions and invite the three applicants to submit a complete application & a 5-minute recorded presentation of their planned research.
Additional Documents for Phase 2:
- Detailed project plan
To include Objective, Background, Hypothesis, Aims, Methods and Materials, Timeline, Pitfalls, Solutions, Significance, and References. (2 pages + references) - Mentor Biosketch
(A mentor is required if the PI is a trainee or a junior faculty member – within three years of their initial appointment) - Budget and Budget Justification
Please note: the grant does not cover overhead or investigator salaries. (1 page) - Mentoring plan
A mentoring plan, written by the mentor, is required if the PI is a trainee or a junior faculty member – within three years of their initial appointment (1 page) - Letter of support and commitment
From the Mentor (if the PI is a trainee or a junior faculty member – within three years of their faculty appointment) or the Department Chair (for faculty members starting in the 4th year of their appointment) (1 page)
Selection Process
The review process will consist of two phases: The SATA Research Committee & SATA Council will review all letters of intent (Phase 1). Three investigators will be invited to submit a full proposal (Phase 2). One grant will be awarded per year.
Reporting and Award Requirements
Awardees must submit two progress reports six months and one year after the receipt of the grant:
The 6-month report should be brief (less than two pages) and include:
- Progress made to date (including expenses).
- Difficulties encountered or anticipated roadblocks and plans to mitigate them.
- Identification and explanation of any changes made from the original proposal.
- The committee will review the progress report and help resolve problems that arise to ensure the success of the grant recipient.
The 1-year report must be provided for review 13 months after the beginning of the Grant Period. The report will include:
- A summary of the objective and the results of the study,
- Any changes in the research project or mentorship,
- Publication or abstracts that have been generated from the study,
- A financial report detailing how the grant money was spent,
- Award of further funding.
The grant will be awarded to the grant recipient’s institution. All expenses funded by the grant are to be paid by the institution. Any unused funds are to be returned to SATA. The SATA and its auditors reserve the right to receive documentation and itemized expense receipts upon request.
Please address your questions regarding the application process to Dr. Dieter Adelmann (Chair of the SATA Research Committee) at dieter.adelmann@ucsf.edu.
For administrative questions, please reach out to the SATA Office at sata@pacainc.com.
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SATA Announces “Affiliated Subspecialty Society” Status with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
SATA Announces “Affiliated Subspecialty Society” Status with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) is delighted to announce it has recently been approved as an “Affiliated Subspecialty Society” with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). We are proud to be recognized as the representative society of all of transplant anesthesiology in the U.S.
SATA’s Affiliated Subspecialty Society accords SATA the following benefits: prominent placement on ASA’s Subspecialty Organizations web page, input to designated related existing ASA Annual Meeting educational track and abstract review subcommittees, subsidized CME services through ASA’s Joint Providership Program, assistance with subspecialty society communications and promotions for meetings, complimentary space in ASA’s “Affiliated Subspecialty Pavilion” at the ASA Annual Meeting, opportunity to submit an article to the subspeciality news section of the ASA Newsletter for informational purposes, communication purposes or promotional purposes.
The Society for Transplant Anesthesia (SATA), founded in 2011, is an independent clinician-based professional association serving the needs of anesthesiologists and critical care specialists involved in the practice of transplantation medicine and surgery. As the complex field of transplantation continues to develop rapidly, SATA seeks to advance the scope of practice and further develop the field of transplant anesthesiology. Transplant anesthesia society founders, and the first society for advancement of transplant anesthesia presidential address
Spring 2024 SATA Newsletter
UNOS News
By Flora Simmons, MD
Record-breaking 10,000 Liver Transplants Performed in 2023
In 2023, more than 10,000 liver transplants were recorded, more than any single year in history. This continues the eleven-year streak of record-breaking numbers of liver transplants. More changes to liver allocation are coming soon and should continue to increase annual liver transplant numbers. Link Here
Changes to Minimum Donor Criteria for Kidney Biopsies Leads to increased Kidney Donors
A policy change aiming to standardize biopsy practices was implemented on September 22, 2023 to help improve kidney allocation efficiency. The policy establishes minimum donor criteria for kidney biopsies. The most recent monitoring report shows a six percent (6,930) increase in deceased kidney donors recovered. Link Here
New pre-transplant performance metric
A new risk-adjusted performance monitoring metric will take effect in July 2024 called the “pre-transplant mortality rate ratio”. The pre-transplant mortality rate ratio indicates whether patients listed at a program are more or less likely to die prior to receiving a transplant than expected. Link Here
Change to the Organ Offer Acceptance Limit
On May 29, 2024 the number of offers a transplant hospital may accept per transplant candidate will be reduced. Link Here
Research Updates and Interesting Articles
By Michael Trostler, MD and Alex Stoker MD
Perioperative Considerations in Older Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients: A Review
The aging population has led to an increase in the ages of our transplant population. This narrative review details the individual factors that aging patients deal with and should be recognized as we proceed with transplanting this patients. Frailty, sarcopenia, cognitive dysfunction, likelihood of malignancy, coronary artery disease and associated disorders are some of the preoperative factors that we need to be considering. Link Here
Understanding Alcohol Relapse in Liver Transplant Patients With Alcohol- Related Liver Disease: A Comprehensive Review
Alcoholic relapse is a formidable challenge in alcohol related liver disease and liver transplant. This review explores the nature of relapse and strategies to prevent it. This is written with alcoholic cirrhosis in mind, but the strategies are equally relevant in acute alcoholic hepatitis as these patients have not had a period of abstinence prior to transplant. A holistic approach, recognizing the interconnections between the social, psychological, medical, and physiological factors are key to preventing relapse. Link Here
Liver Machine Perfusion Technology: Expanding the Donor Pool to Improve Access to Liver Transplantation
The effect of machine perfusion on liver transplant center donor utilization. Significantly more DCD donors were used, increased DCD >50 years old, increased steatosis fraction utilization, and increased warm ischemia time. Link Here
Universal Antifungal Prophylaxis Effectively Prevents Fungal Bloodstream Infection in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients: A retrospective real-world study
Empiric treatment of pediatric liver transplant recipients with anti-fungals helped prevent fungal bloodstream infections in a retrospective study of 604 pediatric liver transplant recipients in China. Link Here
Perioperative Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Management in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Review of the Literature Merging Guidelines and Interventions
Liver transplant is the second most common solid organ transplant procedure worldwide, as increasing numbers of transplants are performed each year and as the age of transplant recipients increases screening for CAD is especially important. This literature review covers risk stratification techniques/tests, transplantation. Link Here
Outcomes following concomitant multiorgan heart transplantation from circulatory death donors: The United States experience
The recent emergence of ex-vivo machine perfusion and normothermic regional perfusion has allowed for expansion of the donor heart pool by utilization of Donation after circulatory death (DCD) organs. Multi-organ heart transplant candidates face a high waitlist mortality. Outcomes following multi-organ heart transplantation from DCD donors is not well established, as these patients had been excluded in recent RCTs of DCD heart transplantation.
In this retrospective study of multiorgan heart transplant candidates and recipients, the authors found willingness to consider DCD offers was associated with higher likelihood of transplant for all multiorgan heart candidates. Heart- kidney recipients of DCD organs had similar post-transplant outcomes compared to recipients of brain-dead donor transplants. While heart-liver and heart-lung recipients represented a group too small for analysis, all patients were alive at last follow up. Link Here
Update from the SATA Council Meeting and National Meeting in Seattle
By Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD and David Rosenfeld, MD, FASA
SATA Executive Council met in person in Seattle on May 19-20, 2024. The Council discussed plans to develop strategic plans for the coming years.
Discussion points included streamlining SATA committees to avoid overlap and redundancies. In addition, SATA is working closely with ILTS on the upcoming SATA/ILTS perioperative meeting in Philadelphia in Oct 2024. Agenda and speakers are being finalized. SATA has initiated the official application process to become an ASA subspecialty society, which will create significant alignment, collaboration and synergy between SATA and ASA. SATA is also working very closely with our industrial sponsors to promote transplant anesthesiologists recruitment and education.
The SATA National Symposium in Seattle was a resounding success and attended by over 50 physicians . We had great presentations including a section from colleagues from the Korean Society of Transplant Anesthesiologists (KSTA). Pictured below is Dr. Gebhard Wagener with Dr. Sang-Hyun Kim from Soon Chun Hyang University Medical Center during the speakers dinner. We also had a great experience with the first POCUS/TEE Interactive Training Workshop.
Special Topics
By Alex Stoker, MD
Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum
Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum (LHIS) is a benign cardiac lesion characterized by fat accumulation in the interatrial septum with a prevalence between 2.2% and 8% and can be diagnosed by computed tomography, cardiac MRI as well as transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Using TEE, LHIS is best seen in the midesophageal bicaval view and typically involves hypertrophy of both the cephalad and caudal portions of the interatrial septum, projecting into the right atrium and sparing of the fossa ovalis, creating the classic “dumbbell” shape (see Fig 1 below). Criteria for LHIS includes an atrial septum thickness greater than 2 cm. LHIS can predispose patients to atrial arrhythmias due to conduction disturbances from fat infiltration as well as inflammation. LHIS is associated with advanced age, obesity and pulmonary emphysema. It is important to recognize LHIS as this can be mistaken for other pathology such as malignant cardiac tumors or even intracardiac thrombus.
Link Here
In the Spotlight: University of California – Los Angeles – Abdominal Organ Transplant Program
By David Rosenfeld, MD, FASA
For the spring newsletter we are highlighting UCLAs Abdominal Organ Transplant Program. The program is based out of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center which was opened in 2008 and is a 520-bed center of over a million square feet. This historic liver transplant program was launched and grown under the leadership of renowned surgeon Ronald Busittil in 1984. The abdominal transplant program currently includes both adult and pediatric liver, small bowel and multivisceral transplants. The pediatric arm is staffed by pediatric anesthesia physicians under the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital umbrella within the Reagan UCLA footprint. Renal transplantation is managed under the Department of Urology. Volume data from 2023: 195 Liver Transplants, 8 Pediatric LT, 1 Small Bowel.
The adult team includes eleven attending anesthesiologists, as well as a separate pediatric team for that arm. At all times two attendings are on call for the liver team. This team also covers hepatocellular carcinoma resections, hepatic metastatic cancers, complex Whipple procedures and invasive renal cell carcinoma surgeries. UCLA’s patient population is high acuity with an average MELD-Na of 34, with a high percentage of ICU patients listed. Cases are mixed between total cava exclusion (60%), piggyback (25%), and veno- veno bypass (5%) depending on the surgeon and anatomy, with ROTEM and TEE frequently used, and CRRT common. Anesthesiologists are a consistent member of the selection committee, with surgeons, cardiologists, pulmonology
rounds with the entire team. The anesthesiology division meets monthly with case discussions, QI reviews, preoperative evaluations, research presentations, with minutes distributed.
UCLA has a large anesthesiology residency of 27 per class. An intense two- week experience in liver transplant is combined with a two weeks of vascular in a one month rotation. Extensive LT anesthesia website educational resources, simulation-based LT resident training model, and an extensive reading list and Powerpoint lectures are offered. UCLA has a one year non-ACGME Liver Transplant Anesthesia Fellowship for up to two candidates with the goal of training the fellow to be a perioperative consultant in liver transplant anesthesia. Fellows spend 50% of time in clinical liver transplant anesthesia and 50% time working as a staff anesthesiologist. Salary reflects this blended role with additional ability to moonlight. Fellows receive training in transesophageal echocardiography with experience geared towards the Basic PTEXAM Examination of Special Competence. Research experience is encouraged. The division’s research arm is robust with ongoing prospective and retrospective investigations and an institutional outcome database collected for over 20 years. Collaborations exist with cardiology, liver transplant surgery and critical care, and other institutions. Special thanks to Fellowship Director Dr. Christine Ngyen-Buckley, and Service Chief Dr. Christopher Wray for their contributions to this section. If you have interest in having your program highlighted in the future, please contact me at Rosenfeld.david@mayo.edu
SATA Member Corner: 5 minutes with Dr. Christine Nguyen-Buckley from UCLA
By Alex Ruan, MD
Can you share a little bit about your background and your journey to a career in medicine?
My first job out of college was as a study coordinator in pediatric infectious diseases. I realized during that job that I really wanted to work with patients and take care of them as a physician. So that’s what drove me to going into medicine. For anesthesiology, I didn’t really have a good idea of what it was about, even though my husband is an anesthesiologist. During my surgery rotation, the anesthesiologist asked me to come to the head of the bed and let me participate in the patient’s care. He let me do minor things like holding the
thought, “Oh, wow! Look at all these things the anesthesiologist gets to do.” Why transplant anesthesiology?
Transplant anesthesia can be exciting and gratifying. It feels so good when you see patients you care for go from the extremes of being sick in the ICU to recovering after transplant. It’s gratifying when patients come back for routine outpatient procedures like colonoscopies and they look so well. I also have a nice mix of cases in my practice – some days I’ll do general routine cases, then other days, I’m dealing with the intensity of getting someone safely through a transplant.
Why did you join SATA? How long have you been a member of SATA and what is your current involvement with the organization?
I’ve been a member of SATA since around the time that I was a fellow. I’m trying to remember the details, but at the ASA, I think Ryan Chadha said to me “Hey, there’s this SATA meeting. Do you want to check this out?” And so I went to it. There were all these big-time transplant anesthesiologists that were there. It was very intimate and a small group at that point. And now it’s grown so much. It has been really great to be part of an organization where it has been so easy to get involved, even as a fellow.
I’m currently the chair of the SATA membership committee. I would like to help people be satisfied with their experience as SATA members, and then also to recruit members and get them involved. SATA needs the help of its members! Members can email me and I can help connect them to people in areas they may be interested in.
What are your research interests, and do you currently have any research/ clinical projects going on?
My research interests involve perioperative care of liver transplant patients. We’ve been looking at complications like intracardiac thrombosis, how to prevent and treat it, but also why it happens. I’m also interested in education in liver transplant, particularly liver transplant fellowship.
What is your favorite piece of anesthesia equipment?
How do I even choose – it’s so hard to pick a favorite! But one piece of anesthesia equipment that I used today that I was so grateful for, and just love, is having point of care testing in the OR. You can get a blood sample and then almost immediately get the patient’s glucose, hemoglobin, a blood gas, electrolytes and then repeat that as often as you need to. This allows you to do this independently and not be reliant on someone to take it to the lab, then for the lab to run it, so that you can really manage your patient very closely. I find it really crucial, not only for liver transplant anesthesia where we are getting labs every hour or even more often, but general cases as well.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I have 3 sons, they’re 11, 8 and 2. So that keeps me pretty busy. But I also like traveling, I like the outdoors, I like reading a lot – anything from like psychological thrillers and true crime novels to the New York Times.
What advice would you give to a medical student or resident who is interested in liver transplants?
I would say they should definitely join SATA. We have a discounted rate for trainees, and it’s a fantastic opportunity to learn about liver transplant anesthesia and to meet and work with experts in the field. SATA has been very helpful for me in my career by helping me make connections for research projects. Medical students and residents should join the Vanguard Committee so they can get involved and further their career.
Dr. Nguyen-Buckley can be reached at cnguyenbuckley@mednet.ucla.edu.
If you or someone you know is interested in being featured in the SATA newsletter, please reach out to Dr. Alexandra Ruan aruan@stanford.edu
Newsletter Committee Update
Future ideas – we are exploring the concept of having a printed newsletter to serve our membership. The SATA newsletter committee is actively seeking
new members. Those interested in all topics related to transplant anesthesia are welcome. We are always looking to expand ideas and content for the newsletter. If interested, please contact David Rosenfeld, MD at Rosenfeld.David@mayo.edu
SATA Survey
Adult Liver Transplant Anesthesiology Practice in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Survey from the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia
We previously sent out an email about participating in the first survey from the SATA Practice Management Committee focusing on adult liver transplant institutions in the United States. This is a reminder email to please complete the survey if you have not previously. The link is below, we greatly appreciate your time and effort to share your experience. If you
Ted Sakai (sakait@upmc.edu).
Follow this link to the Survey:
Take the Survey
Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://ucdenver.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9piQkrlQ5YnJ3iC? Q_DL=8SwUYTYkHyJIGtG_9piQkrlQ5YnJ3iC_CGC_Wc4OqWtC9OalYgm&Q_ CHL=email
Future SATA Events and Meetings
SATA Mid State Meeting – September 27th, Virtual
SATA/ILTS Perioperative Meeting – With the ASA National Meeting, October 18, Philadelphia, PA
SATA Winter West Coast Meeting – December 14, 2024, UCSF
Transplantation Upcoming Meetings
American Transplant Congress, June 1-5, Philadelphia, PA Link Here
30th International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2024) – TTS Official Meeting, September 22-25, Istanbul, Turkey. Home (tts2024.org)
13th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA 2025)
– TTS Official Section Meeting, September 18 – 21, Berlin, Germany
18th Congress of the International Xenotransplantation Association (IXA 2025) – TTS Official Section Meeting, Sept 30-October 3, Geneva Switzerland. Link Here
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: TERM 2023 – 2024
President
Gebhard Wagener, MD
Immediate Past President
Tetsuro Sakai, MD, PhD, MHA, FASA
Founding President
Ernesto A. Pretto Jr., MD, MPH
President-elect
Lorenzo De Marchi, MD
Secretary
Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD, FASA, FASE
Treasurer
Ranjit Deshpande, MBBS Executive Council Michael Ander, MD, FASA
Adrian Hendrickse, BM, MMEd, MAcadMEd, FRCA Sathish S. Kumar, MD
Raymond M. Planinsic, MD, FASA
Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
David Rosenfeld, MD
Newsletter Editorial Board
Sennaraj Balasubramanian, MD Amit Bardia, MD
Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD, FASA, FASE
- Susan Mandell, MD, PhD Sergio Navarrete, DO Yong G Peng MD, PhD Alexandra Ruan, MD
Flora Simmons, MD Natalie Smith, MD Alex Stoker, MD
Michael Trostler MS, MD
Somnia Anesthesia
2024 SATA Southeastern Regional Meeting
Learning objectives:
- Discuss options for pain control in liver recipients.
- Describe common conditions associated with liver transplant recipients and discuss screening and treatment options.
- Discuss optimization of lung transplant recipients.
- Explore cannulation and TEE in lung transplant
- Discuss machine perfusion in heart transplant
- Explore heart transplant in congenital heart disease patient with pulmonary hypertension.
Target audience:
Transplant Anesthesiologists, Intensivists, Transplant Surgeons, Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students.
Accreditation and CME credit designation:
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Program organizing institutions (Program committee members):
- Mayo Clinic Florida (Stephen Aniskevich, MD) – Program Chair
- Mayo Clinic Florida (Sher-Lu Pai, MD)
- Duke University (Brandi Bollinger, MD)
- University of Miami (Fouad Souki, MD)
- University of Texas Southwestern (Flora Simmons, MD)
Platform: Zoom (virtual) Webinar
Registration:
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Educational Program (all times in EST):
8:00- 8:05: Introductory remarks- Stephen Aniskevich, MD (Mayo Clinic Florida) Program Chair
8:05 -8:15: SATA Presidential Address– Gebhard Wagener, MD (Columbia)
Abdominal Transplantation
Moderator: Flora Simmons, MD (UT Southwestern)
- 8:15-8:35: Regional Analgesia for Liver Transplant Hari Kalagara, MD (Mayo)
- 8:35- 8:55: Intracardiac Thrombosis during Liver Transplantation Jennifer Lee, DO (Mayo)
- 8:55- 9:15: Pulmonary Hypertension in Liver Transplant Recipients Zach Fleissner, DO (Mayo)
Q&A 9:15-9:30
Moderator: Faoud Souki, MD (University of Miami)
- 9:30- 9:50: Fraility in ESLD Vadim Shatz, MD (U Miami)
- 9:50- 10:10: Use of TEE in Liver Transplant Philip Kalarickal, MD (Emory)
- 10:10- 10:30: Cardiovascular Risk Screening for Liver Transplant Candidates Selene Martinez-Perez, MD (U of Toronto)
Q &A 10:30- 10:45
Break 10:45-11:00
Thoracic Transplantation
Moderator: Brandi Bottiger, MD (Duke University)
1.11:00- 11:20: The Battle of Cannulation: VA ECMO vs CPB in Lung Transplant Siavosh Saatee, MD (UT Southwestern)
- 11:20- 11:40: Preop Optimization for Lung Transplant Toby Steinberg, MD (MUSC)
- 11:40- 12:00: Transesophageal Echocardiography in Lung Transplantation Jennifer Prete, MD (U Miami)
Q&A 12:00- 12:15
Moderator:
- 12:15- 12:35: Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Heart Transplantation: Pros and Cons- Sachin Mehta, MD (Duke University)
- 12:35- 12:55: Heart Transplantation in an Adult with Congential Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension Nicho Flores-Conner, MD (Emory)
- 12:55- 1:15: XVIVO: Extending the Boundaries of Cardiac Transplantation- Ron Leong, MD (Emory)
Q & A 1:15- 1:30
Closing Remarks
SATA Mid-State Meeting
Learning objectives:
- Construct a perioperative plan for Jehovah’s witness patients undergoing liver transplantation.
- Discuss oncological indications for liver transplantation.
- Describe various practice patterns in kidney transplantation.
- Review the role of robotic kidney transplantation.
- Explain various organ preservation techniques for lung transplantation.
- Formulate an approach to managing vasoplegic shock during heart transplantation.
Target audience:
Transplant Anesthesiologists, Intensivists, Transplant Surgeons, Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students.
Accreditation and CME credit designation:
The Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Program organizing institutions (Program committee members):
- University of Michigan (Sathish Kumar, MD)
- University of Cincinnati (Courtney Jones, MD)
- Ohio State University (Leonid Gorelik, MD)
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner College of Medicine (Sandeep Khanna, MD)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Raymond Planinsic, MD)
Platform: Zoom (virtual) Webinar
Registration: https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/qxx8wd509eg52n/
Registration Fee:
- US $25.00
- Free for trainees, medical students, speakers, and international participants who do not need CME credits.
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Educational Program (all times in EST):
8:40 am – 8:45 am Welcome and Introduction
Sathish Kumar, MD (University of Michigan), Sandeep Khanna, MD (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) – Program Chair
8:45 am – 9:50 am Liver Transplantation Session (Moderator: Cory France, MD, University of Cincinnati)
Liver transplantation in Jehovah’s Witness patients 8:45-9:10 am
Speaker: Dr. Steve Frank, Johns Hopkins.
Liver transplant oncology: Expanding indications for liver transplantation. 9:10-9:35 am
Speaker: Dr. Cutler Quillin (Surgeon’s perspective), University of Cincinnati
Question and Answer Session 9:35 am -9:50 am
9:50 am – 10:00 am SATA Address
Gebhard Wagener, MD – President, SATA
10:00 am – 10:10 am Break
10:10 am – 11:15 am Updates in Kidney Transplantation Session
(Moderator: Atsushi Yoshida, MD, FACS, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit)
Robotic Kidney Transplantation 10:10 -10:35 am
Speaker: Dr. Mohamed Eltemamy (Surgeon’s perspective), Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
(Moderator: Raymond Planinsic, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Practice patterns in Kidney Transplantation 10:35-11:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Douville (University of Michigan)
Question and Answer Session 11:00-11:15 am
11:15 am – 11:25 am Break
11:25 am – 12:30 pm Heart and Lung Transplant Session (Moderator: Karina Anam, MD, Ohio State University)
Vasoplegic Shock in Heart Transplantation: 11:25 am -11:50 am
Speaker: Dr. Alice Whyte (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Organ Preservation Techniques during Lung Transplantation: 11:50 am -12:15 pm
Speaker: Dr. Brett Wakefield, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Question and Answer Session 12:15-12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 1:10 pm Break
1:10 pm – 1:25 pm Case Presentation (Moderators: Dr. Leo Gorelik, MD, Ohio State University, & Dr. William Chang, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
10 minutes to present the case followed by 5 minutes for discussion and questions.
Anesthetic considerations for patients with Propionic Acidemia undergoing Liver Transplantation 1:20-1:30 pm
Speaker: Anthony Divito, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
1:25 pm – 1:30 pm Closing Remarks
Courtney Jones, MD (University of Cincinnati)
