Program: ILTS Consensus Conference 2026

Friday, March 6, 2026
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration & Networking Entrance Foyer Welcome to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University Center located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC You can find the Registration Desk on the Ground Floor, open until 6:30pm.
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks Room 820 Valeria Mas, University of Maryland Wojtek Polak, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM	Overview of Consensus Process Room 820 Prashant Bhangui, Medanta - The medicity Delphi Framework and Objectives
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE : Clinical Trials in Liver Disease: Shaping the Next Era of Transplantation. Room 820 Arun Sanyal, Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Break Morning coffee break on the 8th Floor
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Hepatocellular Carcinoma Room 820 Parallel Session 1: Clinical Trials	Machine Perfusion Room 1020 Parallel Session 1: Clinical Trials	Alcohol Related Liver Disease Room 1024 Parallel Session 1: Clinical Trials
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Bridge to life: Lunch Symposia - Beyond Preservation: Redefining Liver Transplantation with Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion Room 820 David Axelrod, University Hospital of Cleveland Mauricio Flores Carvalho, Bridge to Life David Foley, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Andrea Schlegel, Cleveland Clinic Ohio Presented by ___________________________________________ Moderator: Mauricio Flores Carvalho, VP Medical & Scientific Affairs, Bridge to Life Clinical Outcomes & Practical Implementation Bridge to HOPE: Translating Evidence into Contemporary U.S. Practice Speaker: Dr David Foley, MD, University of Wisconsin Mitochondrial Biomarkers & Metabolic Intelligence From Physiology to Decision-Making: Biomarker-Guided Hypothermic Perfusion Speaker: Dr Andrea Schlegel, MD, MBA, Cleveland Clinic Economics & Program Sustainability Machine Perfusion and Value-Based Transplantation Speaker: Dr David Axelrod, MD, University Hospital of Cleveland
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Machine Perfusion Room 1020 Parallel Session 2: Biomarkers	Hepatocellular Carcinoma Room 820 Parallel Sessions 2: Biomarkers	Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Room 1024 Parallel Session 2: Biomarkers
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE II: Machine perfusion is rewriting the rules: what is coming next? Room 820 Peter Friend, University of Oxford
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Hepatocellular Carcinoma Room 820 Parallel Session 3: AI & Data Integration	Machine Perfusion Room 1020 Parallel Session 3: AI & Data Integration	Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Room 1024 Parallel Session 3: AI & Data Integration
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Day 1 Wrap Up Summary of Key Recommendations
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM	Networking Reception: 8th Floor Terrace
Saturday, March 7, 2026
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM	Q3: Breakfast Symposia - Intraoperative Biodegradable Stent for Mitigating Biliary Complications in Liver Transplantation Room 820 Daniel Maluf, University of Maryland Krishna Menon, King's College Hospital, London Ravi Mohanka, Sir. H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital Wojtek Polak, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam Presented by ___________________________________________ Moderator: Dr. Daniel Maluf, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Speaker: Prof. Krishna Menon, Kings College Hospital, London, UK Speaker: Dr. Wojtek Polak, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. Netherlands Speaker: Dr. Ravi Mohanka, Sir. H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India ___________________________________________
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Keynote Session: Innovation in Focus Patrizia Burra, University of Padova Neil Mehta, UCSF School of Medicine Robert Porte, Erasmus University Medical Center KEYNOTE SESSION Moderators: Valeria Mas, PhD; Wojtek Polak, MD 8:20-8:35 AM. Machine Perfusion: Trial Design and Real-Time Biomarkers. Robert Porte, MD, PhD. 8:40-8:55 AM. HCC: Precision Trials and Biomarker Validation. Neil Mehta, MD 9:00-9:15 AM Integrating Biomarkers & AI Into Ethical Trials. Patrizia Burra., MD. 9:15-9:30AM Panel Discussion
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Cross-Group Synthesis Panel - Working Group 1 Room 820 David Al-Adra, University of Wisconsin Moderators: Markus Selzner & Andrea Schlegel
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Cross-Group Synthesis Panel - Working Group 2 Room 820 Jiang Liu, University of Hong Kong Grainne O'Kane Madhukar Patel, UT Southwestern Medical Center Parissa Tabrizian, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute Moderators: Prashant Bhangui • Nancy Kwan Man • Alfred Kow • KW Lee
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Cross-Group Synthesis Panel - Working Group 3 Room 820 Sonya MacParland, University Health Network Abdul Hakeem, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Ashwin Rammohan, Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre Marta Tejedor, University of Iowa Healthcare Paolo Magistri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Moderators: Alexandre Louvet • Juan Pablo Arab
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM	Day 2 Wrap Up Group Photo

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