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  • Tuesday, October 7, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM US EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US EDT
    Volunteer Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM US EDT
    Mother's Room
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM US EDT
    ACHI Booth
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM US EDT
    Attendee Registration
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM US EDT
    Membership Booth
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM US EDT
    Membership Lounge
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM US EDT
    Service Awards Presentation
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM US EDT
    The Rose Payne Award and Lecture: Beyond Paradigm Shifts: Building Bridges Across Disciplines in Transplantation
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM US EDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibits
  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM US EDT
    Scholar Presentation: Profiling the HLA diversity in Multiple US Populations Using High-resolution 9-locus Haplotype Frequencies from Donors in the NMDP Donor Registry
  • 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US EDT
    Scholar Presentation: Identifying HLA Amino Acid Mismatches that Predict Kidney Graft Failure with Cross Validation using FIBERS 2.0 Machine Learning Binning
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM US EDT
    Plenary I: New Frontiers in HCT & Cell and Gene Therapy
    Speaker: Christian B. Gocke, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
    Speaker: Steven Devine, MD – NMDP
    Speaker: David Wald, MD PhD – Case Western Reserve University
    Moderator: Medhat Askar, MD, PhD – Qatar University
    Moderator: Maria Bettinotti, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM US EDT
    ASHI Lunch
  • 12:40 PM - 1:35 PM US EDT
    Thermo Fisher Scientific: Future-Ready Labs: Automation, Policy, and Workflow
  • 1:40 PM - 2:35 PM US EDT
    Werfen: Advancing Transplant Care: Harnessing New Tools to Elevate Patient Outcomes
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Abstract I: From Haplotypes to Antibodies: Bioinformatics tools in basic and translational immunogenetics
    Speaker: Ahmed Mostafa, MD, PhD, F(ACHI) – University of Saskatchwean
    Speaker: Yan Li, PhD, F(ACHI) (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Yang Li, M.B. – The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
    Speaker: Nicholas Pollock, PhD candidate (he/him/his) – University of Colorado AMC
    Speaker: Mitchell Ellison, PhD – UPMC
    Speaker: Busra Coskun – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Danillo Augusto, PhD – UNC Charlotte
    Moderator: Abeer Madbouly, PhD – MHC Therapeutics Bioconsulting
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Abstract II: HLA-Centric Approaches in Graft Selection, Infectious Risk, and Immune Regulation
    Speaker: Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, PhD – IGEN/AFIP and Federal University of Parana
    Speaker: Harry Pickering, PhD – UCLA
    Speaker: Ying Li – First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
    Speaker: Annette Jackson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Speaker: Joseph Ladowski, MD, PhD – Duke University
    Moderator: Caroline Alquist, MD, PhD, F(ACHI) – Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati
    Moderator: Louise Helander, MBBS (she/her/hers) – ClinImmune, The Center for Clinical Immunology; University of Colorado
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Workshop 1: Best Practices: The sequel
    Speaker: Carey Killion, BS, MT(ASCP), CHS(ACHI) – KSL Diagnostics
    Speaker: James Lan, MD, FRCPC, D(ACHI) – University of British Columbia
    Speaker: Rob Liwski, MD, PhD, FRCPC, F(ACHI) – Dalhousie University
    Speaker: Sandra Tafulo, PhD – Instituto Português de Sangue e da Transplantação
    Moderator: Renato De Marco, MSc (he/him/his) – Instituto Imunogenética, IGEN/AFIP
    Moderator: Annette Jackson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke University
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM US EDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibits
  • 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US EDT
    Abstract III: Unraveling Immunogenetic Variation in Disease Risk, Transplantation, and Reference Samples
    Speaker: Rafaela Miranda Barbosa (she/her/hers) – University of São Paulo
    Speaker: Yiping Jin, MD – University of California Los Angeles
    Speaker: Janelle Noble, PhD – UCSF
    Speaker: Valia Bravo-Egana, PhD, F(ACHI), MBA (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Georgia/ Augusta University
    Speaker: Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Speaker: Sarah Grasedieck, PhD – University of British Columbia
    Moderator: Brian Franz, PhD, F(ACHI) – Vitalant
    Moderator: Alan Sanfilippo, PhD, F(ACHI) – Piedmont Transplant Institute
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US EDT
    Workshop 2: Addressing International Challenges to Transplant Laboratory Practices
    Speaker: Xiangjun Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – BFR Gene Diagnostics
    Speaker: Amir Hamidieh, MD – Tehran University of Medical Sciences
    Speaker: Olga Gerova, MD – National Bone Marrow Donors Registry named after Vasya Perevoshchikov
    Moderator: Medhat Askar, MD, PhD – Qatar University
    Moderator: Chang Liu, MD, PhD, A(ACHI) – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US EDT
    Workshop 3: B cells and Beyond: The players of antibody mediated rejection
    Speaker: Nicole Valenzuela, PhD, F(ACHI) – NorDx / MaineHealth
    Speaker: Esme Dijke, PhD, F(ACHI) – Alberta Precision Laboratories
    Speaker: Luis Hidalgo, PhD, F(ACHI) – University of Alabama - Birmingham
    Moderator: Arianne Mankey, CHS (ACHI) – Stanford Blood Center Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory
    Moderator: Ruby J. Siegel, PhD, F(ACHI), HCLD(ABB) – Mayo Clinic Arizona
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM US EDT
    DIT Reception
  • 6:15 PM - 8:15 PM US EDT
    Poster Reception with Exhibits
  • 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM US EDT
    International Reception
  • 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM US EDT
    Inspectors Reception