| Day #1 - Monday, October 26, 2026 |
| Start |
End |
Session |
| 7:00 |
8:00 |
Fellows Breakfast |
| 8:00 |
8:10 |
Welcome & Knight Presentation |
| 8:00 |
10:00 |
Fellows Symposium #1 - HLA |
| 8:00 |
8:30 |
Introduction to HLA testing in Solid Organ Transplantation |
| 8:30 |
9:00 |
Transplantation of the Highly Sensitized Patient |
| 9:00 |
9:30 |
Approaches to Determining Immunological Risk in Transplant |
| 9:30 |
10:00 |
Applications of HLA Molecular Mismatch |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
12:00 |
Fellows Symposium #2 - Career Development |
| 10:30 |
10:50 |
Choosing your career path: finding the right fit after fellowship and positioning yourself for your first job |
| 10:50 |
11:10 |
What employers are looking for: insights from a division director |
| 11:10 |
11:30 |
The Canadian job landscape - opportunities and realities in early practice |
| 11:30 |
12:00 |
Discussion |
| 12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 |
14:30 |
Fellows Symposium #3 - CPC - Concurrent |
| 13:00 |
13:30 |
Kidney Breakout Pathology Review |
| 13:30 |
14:30 |
Kidney Breakout |
| 13:00 |
13:30 |
Liver Breakout Pathology Review |
| 13:30 |
14:30 |
Liver Breakout |
| 13:00 |
13:30 |
Lung Breakout Pathology Review |
| 13:30 |
14:30 |
Lung Breakout |
| 13:00 |
13:30 |
Heart Breakout Pathology Review |
| 13:30 |
14:30 |
Heart Breakout |
| 13:30 |
14:30 |
Pediatric Breakout |
| 14:30 |
15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00 |
16:00 |
Fellows Symposium #4 - Transplant ID |
| 15:00 |
15:30 |
Vaccination in peds SOT: what and when? |
| 15:30 |
16:00 |
The invisible threats: donor-derived infections you can’t miss |
| 16:00 |
16:20 |
Fellows Symposium #5 - AFC Program for Trainees - Royal College Perspective |
| 16:20 |
16:40 |
AFC Program for Trainees - Program Perspective |
| 16:40 |
17:00 |
AFC Program for Trainees |
| Day #2 - Tuesday, October 26, 2026 |
| 7:00 |
8:00 |
Fellows Breakfast |
| 8:00 |
9:00 |
Fellows Symposium #6 - Surgical Complications - Liver & Kidney |
| 8:00 |
9:00 |
Surgical Complications - Heart & Lung |
| 9:00 |
10:00 |
Pushing boundaries on donor selection - case-based discussion |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
12:00 |
Fellows Symposium #7 - Donation Related Cases |
| 10:30 |
12:00 |
NRP and Machine Perfusion: Are cold storage and rapid procurement still standard of care? |
| 10:30 |
11:00 |
Normothermic Regional Perfusion: Principles, Physiology and Technique |
| 11:00 |
11:30 |
NRP vs Direct Cold Procurement |
| 11:30 |
12:00 |
NRP and machine perfusion: complementary or competitive strategies? |
| 12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 |
15:00 |
Fellows Symposium #8 - Transplant ID |
| 13:00 |
13:30 |
How to prevent and manage BK nephropathy in SOT |
| 13:30 |
14:00 |
The fungus spectrum: key infections every transplant fellow must recognize |
| 14:00 |
14:30 |
Tackling MDR bacterial infections in SOT |
| 14:30 |
15:00 |
How to prevent and treat cmv infection in SOT recipients |