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 2024 Symposium of the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA)

In conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)

With interactive POCUS ultrasound and echocardiography training

Sunday May 19 to Monday May 20, 2024

Hyatt Regency Seattle Hotel, 5^th floor, Room 502; 808 Howell St, Seattle, WA 98101

Registration (with CME credit):  https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/mb1rdsj1psnxyg/

$50 for SATA, SOCCA and SCA members, $150 for non-members, free for trainees

SATA Council meeting on May 1, 2024, at 6 PM

Sunday May 19, 2024

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

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm: Session 1: International Session of the Korean Society of Transplantation Anesthesiologists (KSTA) and the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA)

Moderators: Tetsuro Sakai – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

         Lorenzo De Marchi – Georgetown University, Washington, DC

• TBD
  • Sang-Hyun Kim – President KSTA, Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea
• Red blood cell transfusion in transplantation: Is it safe to use cell salvage in cancer patients?
  • Ji-Hye Kwon – Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
• A survey of practice patterns: Republic of Korea vs USA
  • Cara Crouch – University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm: Pro/Con debate: Perioperative management of HOCM in a liver transplant candidate: Pre-transplant myomectomy or ablation versus no intervention

Moderators: Ryan Chadha – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL

         Uzung Yoon – Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA.

• No Intervention: Chris Racine – University of Alabama Medicine, Birmingham, AB
• Myomectomy or ablation: Selene Martinez Perez, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Break

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm: Session 2: Thoracic transplant session

Moderator:

• Transesophageal Echocardiography for Heart and Lung Transplants
  • Sarah Cotter – Duke University, Durham, NC
• Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) for heart and lung transplants
  • Kathir Subramaniam- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• Combined Transplants: who is in charge, and why?
  • Yonggang Peng – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• Comparison among the cassette-based new point-of-care coagulation machines
  • Kenichi Tanaka – University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Session 3: Research session

Moderator:

• 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)
• Annual SATA research prize
  • The winner of 2024 is…
  • Last year’s winner: Elizabeth Townsend – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• What did we learn last year from the transplant anesthesiology literature?
  • Ryan Wang – Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Monday May 20, 2024

10:00 am – 10:30 am Break

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Case reports

Moderator: Nick Mendez – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

• Case 1: Pulmonary HTN and Severe AR during Liver Transplantation
  • Sarada Eleswarpu – Duke University, Durham, NC
• Case 2: Combined Liver lung transplant
  • George Zhou – Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Session 4: Machine perfusion and donation: How does it affect my practice?

Moderator: Elizabeth Wilson –  Emory University, Atlanta, GA

• Machine Perfusion for Heart Transplants
  • Peter Neuberger – New York University, New York, NY
• Machine Perfusion for Liver Transplants
  • David Rosenfeld – Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
• The Ethics of Normothermic Regional Machine Perfusion
  • Ryutaro Hirose – University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

Monday May 20, 2024

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 24 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/mp82f2b1fh3gne/

Maximum of 24 participants, early registration is encouraged! Basic proficiency with PoCUS suggested.

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

In conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)

Note: SATA Council meeting on April 16

 

Monday April 17, 2023 (8 AM – 3:00 PM)

Location: Mineral A-C room on Level 3, Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, 650 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202

 

Registration (with CME credit):

 https://sata2022.wufoo.com/forms/z1e9i2pz1p5x4o8/    or       https://tinyurl.com/mr2rn9ks

$50 for SATA, SOCCA and SCA members, $150 for non-members, free for trainees

 

7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration

 

8:00 am – 8:15 am Welcome and Introduction

• Gebhard Wagener, President-elect – Columbia University, New York, NY

 

8:15 am – 9:15 am: Session 1: The Yin and Yang of coagulation (60 min)

Moderator: Alexandra Ruan – Stanford University, Stanford, CA

• New models and new drugs in coagulation (20-25 min)
  • Art Bracey – Baylor College of Medicine
• Anticoagulants and surgery: Stop, continue, reverse?
  • Abdominal transplant (10 min)
    • Manoj Iyer – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  • Thoracic transplant (SCA) (10 min)
    •  Kenichi Tanaka – The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

 

9:15 am – 9:45 am: Coagulation debate (30 min)

• Are ROTEM and Cryoprecipitate dangerous for liver transplants? (10 min)
  • Christine Nguyen-Buckley – University of California Los Angeles
• Are PCC and Vit K dangerous for heart transplants? (10 min)
  • Jiapeng Huang – University of Louisville, Kentucky

 

9:45 am – 10:30 am: Session 2: Pain and analgesia for transplant surgeries (45 min)

• Regional techniques for thoracic transplants and VADs (10 min)
  • Anis Dizdarevic – Columbia University, New York, NY
• Indications and challenges to early extubation in the operating room (10 min)
  • Courtney Scott – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
• Analgesia for living liver donors (KSA) (15 min)
  • Justin Ko – Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center; Director of Scientific Affairs, Korean Society of Anesthesiologists – Seoul, Korea

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Break

 

11:00 am – 11:20 am State of the Society

• Ted Sakai, President of SATA – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA
  • (Introduction: Susan Mandell – McGovern Medical Center, Houston TX

 

11:20 am – 12:00 pm Case presentations

Moderator: Adrian Hendrickse – University of Colorado Denver, CO

• Thoracic Transplant
  • Michelle Chen- Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Mentor: Andrea Miltiades – Columbia University, New York, NY
• Abdominal transplant
  • Zach Fleissner – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
  • Mentor: Ryan Chadha – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Session: What’s new in organ donation and allocation (60 min)

• How is transplantation organized: past and future of UNOS and organ transplantation in the US (15-20 min)
  • Jennifer Prinz – CEO of Donor Alliance and Vice Chair of the OPTN Policy Committee
• The impact of the new regulation of organ allocation on transplant practices (15-20 min)
  • Jim Pompeselli – University of Colorado Denver, CO
• Deceased donor management and machine perfusion modalities (15 min)
  • Emily Vail – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

 

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Break

 

1:30 pm – 2:30 Session: How and why do we maintain blood pressure and perfusion (45 min)

Moderator: Ana Fernandez-Bustamante – University of Colorado Denver, CO

• Just a bystander organ? How do we protect the kidney? (15 min)
  • HT Lee – Columbia University, New York, NY
• New kids on the block
  • Angiotensin (10 min)
    • Michael Bokoch – University of California San Francisco, CA
  • Terlipressin (in collaboration with the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologist, SOCCA) (10 min)
    • Sathish Kumar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm First SATA Research Award

• SATA Research Committee
  • She- Lu Pai – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
  • Dieter Adelmann – University of California San Francisco, CA

 

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Closing Remarks

• Lorenzo De Marchi, SATA Secretary – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital