10:00 – 10:30 Registration & Refreshments
10:30 – 10.40 Welcome / Opening Address
10:40 – 11:10 Organ Procurement (TBC)
11:10 – 11:40 The role of the H&I department in renal transplantation
Geraldine Donnelly, Chief Medical Scientist, National Histocompatability &
Immunogenetics Laboratory, Beaumont Hospital
11:40 – 12:10 Renal Transplant (TBC)
12:10 – 12:40 Transplantation from the patient’s perspective
Speaker from the Irish Heart & Lung Transplant Association
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Session
14:00 – 14:30 Celebrating 25 years of transplantation
Margaret Ann Connaughton, SVUH, Dublin
14:30 – 15:00 Haematological Transplant
Dr Catherine Flynn, Consultant Haematologist, SJH
15:00 – 15:30 Management of opportunistic infections in the Immunocompromised host
Dr Breda Lynch, Consultant Microbiologist, Mater Hospital