2026 Fellows Symposium Preliminary Program

 

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