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Full Schedule

  • Thursday, October 9, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM US EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 6:45 AM - 7:45 AM US EDT
    WIT Session: Outcomes and Opportunities - Exploring Sex Differences in Transplant Results and Research
    Speaker: Adriana Zeevi, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Speaker: Rebecca Sosa, PhD, F(ACHI) – UCLA Immunogenetics Center
    Speaker: Abeer Madbouly, PhD – MHC Therapeutics Bioconsulting
    Moderator: Elaine Reed, PhD – UCLA
     CE: .15 CEC / 1 CME
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM US EDT
    ACHI Booth
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM US EDT
    Attendee Registration
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM US EDT
    Membership Booth
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM US EDT
    Membership Lounge
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM US EDT
    Mother's Room
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US EDT
    The Paul Terasaki Clinical Science Award & Lecture and Bernard Amos Distinguished Scientist Award & Lecture
    Speaker: Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH – University of California San Francisco
    Speaker: Ashley Vo, PharmD, FAST – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Moderator: Luis Hidalgo, PhD, F(ACHI) – University of Alabama - Birmingham
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM US EDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibits
  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM US EDT
    Scholar Presentation: Innate Alloimmunity: SIRPA mismatches between the donor and recipient are associated with kidney allograft outcome
  • 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US EDT
    Scholar Presentation: Prediction of Antibody-mediated Rejection by Quantifying Eplets Potentially Targeted by Preformed Donor-specific Antibodies
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM US EDT
    Plenary III: Get into the Groove Peptides, HLA and Autoimmune Diseases
    Speaker: Michael Paley, MD, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Speaker: Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Moderator: Anne Halpin, PhD, A(ACHI) – University of Alberta
    Moderator: Manli Shen, PhD – University of Kentucky
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM US EDT
    ASHI Lunch
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM US EDT
    Professional Standards Division Task Force Luncheon
  • 12:40 PM - 1:35 PM US EDT
    Insight Molecular Diagnostics: GraftAssureIQ: Enabling In-House dd-cfDNA Testing in Transplant Research
    Speaker: Eric Johnson, PhD – Bio-Rad
    Speaker: Geoff Bien – Insight Molecular Diagnotics
    Speaker: Ekkehard Schuetz, MD, PhD, FAACC – Insight Molecular Diagnotics
    Moderator: Ryan Andrews – Insight Molecular Diagnotics
  • 12:40 PM - 1:35 PM US EDT
    Thermo Fisher Scientific: Scientific Advancement Symposia: Bringing the Future to Routine Testing
  • 1:35 PM - 2:45 PM US EDT
    Networking Time
  • 1:35 PM - 2:45 PM US EDT
    Thermo Fisher Scientific Pack with a Purpose
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Abstract V: Risk vs. Reward: Innovations in Solid Organ Transplantation
    Speaker: Jenna Ko, BS – Tulane University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Dan Zhang, MD, PhD – University of Saskatchewan
    Speaker: Adil Bhat, PhD – University of California
    Speaker: Fang Li, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Speaker: Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe, PhD, F(ACHI) – USC and CHLA
    Speaker: Yizhou Zou, MD,PhD – Xiangya Medical School Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, China
    Moderator: Yan Li, PhD, F(ACHI) (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Moderator: Ryan Pena, MD, PhD, MS, F(ACHI) – Tufts University School of Medicine
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Practical Applications: Featuring the International Scholar Award Winner
    Speaker: Xiangjun Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – BFR Gene Diagnostics
    Speaker: Rebecca Sosa, PhD, F(ACHI) – UCLA Immunogenetics Center
    Speaker: Jarret Merschman – Mayo Clinic-Rochester
    Speaker: Brendon Lamarche, RN – University of Alberta
    Speaker: Ruby J. Siegel, PhD, F(ACHI), HCLD(ABB) – Mayo Clinic Arizona
    Speaker: Abdelhamid Liacini, PhD F(ACHI) HCLD/CC(ABB) – American National Red Cross
    Moderator: Chantale Lacelle, PhD, F(ACHI) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Moderator: Manli Shen, PhD – University of Kentucky
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US EDT
    Workshop 6: HLA Serotypes from Theory to Practice: Implementation in the HLA laboratory and impact in transplantation
    Speaker: Marcelo A. Fernandez-Vina, PhD, F (ACHI) – Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Kazutoyo Osoegawa, PhD – Stanford Blood Center
    Speaker: William Lane, MD, PhD, A(ACHI) – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Speaker: Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, PhD – IGEN/AFIP and Federal University of Parana
    Panelist: Renato De Marco, MSc (he/him/his) – Instituto Imunogenética, IGEN/AFIP
    Moderator: Maria Bettinotti, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
    Moderator: Arianne Mankey, CHS (ACHI) – Stanford Blood Center Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US EDT
    Plenary IV: Advances in Transplanting Sensitized Patients
    Speaker: Marlena Habal, MD – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Speaker: E. Steve Woodle, MD – University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Ashley Vo, PharmD, FAST – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Moderator: Alison J. Gareau, MSc, PhD, F(ACHI) – University of Madison, Wisconsin
    Moderator: Ina Skaljic, PhD, F(ACHI) (she/her/hers) – Rush University Medical Center
     CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME
  • 5:45 PM - 6:15 PM US EDT
    Annual Business Meeting
  • 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM US EDT
    Networking Reception - Sponsored by Pirche