welcome address for paris banff allograft pathology meeting june 6-10, 2011

Conference Organizing Committee Co – Directors: Kim Solez Lorraine Racusen

Local Organizer: Denis Glotz

Program Committee

Banu Sis Michael Mengel Lorraine Racusen Mark Haas Jake Demetris Cinthia Drachenberg Carol Farver Denis Glotz Rene Rodriguez William Wallace Linda Cendales

Conference Coordinators Tori Sheldon Akshatha Raghuveer

Lorraine C. Racusen, MD, FASN

Plenary SessionsOrgan-specific Working Sessions

Working LuncheonsCase PresentationsEvening Poster SessionAd hoc sessions – any time!!!

C4d and BK BIFQUIT trial Glomerular lesion scoring Isolated v1 lesion Implantation Biopsy Polyoma virus classification Fibrosis quantitation

Registration Welcome and Orientation Invitation to Banff 2013 – Brazil!

June 7 AM Noon PM Evening

Plenary – Working Grp Rpts Working Groups Kidney/Liver/Lung Case Presentations

June 8 Plenary – EMT etc ?C4d- AMR inBanff

Heart/Pancreas/Comp Posters/Poetry

June 9 Plenary – Molecular Path Integrating Mol Diag

Liver/Kidney Gala Dinner

June 10 Plenary – Session summaries Lunch

Inclusive – many disciplines, range of solid organs

Evidence-based – includes basic/translational/clinical

Interactive- great place for participation, networking

Consensus- developed in pre-meeting surveys, ongoing at the meeting, continuing post-meeting

Productive/goal-oriented The goal- to provide schematized

analysis of allograft biopsies that can and will be implemented world-wide

Thanks to our sponsors!