(ARSHI regional workshop)
Radisson Blue Hotel Kuwait
30-31 October 2019
SESSION 1: Solid Organ Transplantation
Moderator Mr. Fadi Al Zayer
Organ Transplantation in Middle East
Dr. Mustafa Al Mosawi
Kidney transplantation challenges and solution for highly sensitized patient
Dr. Hassan Aleid
How to establish ABO Incompatible Renal Transplantation quickly and effectively
Dr. Ashraf Dada
Coffee break/ Booth visit
SESSION 2: Histocompatibility Methodology
Moderator Dr. Dunia Jawdat
HLA Typing Methodologies
Dr. Reem Amin
HLA-Antibody detection by the new gold standard assays
Dr. Hamid Liacini
Application of Virtual Crossmatch in Kidney Transplantation
Dr. Nada Shatti
Coffee break/ Booth visit
Session 3:Clinical Transplantation
Moderator Dr. Turki Alotaibi
How to monitor and predict Rejection; the interplay between HLA laboratory and clinical side
Dr. Hassan Aleid
Interactive Clinical Case Presentation
Mr. Fadi Al Zayer
Interactive Clinical Case Presentation
Ms Amal Al Gharably
Satellite Symposium with the kind support of One Lambda:
• Explex- New extended Plex single antigen from OLI
• Auto antibodies or NON HLA Luminex based assay from OLI
Mr. Adam Dorzweiler, Senior Product Manager, One Lambda
Gala Dinner Sponsored by One Lambda-Thermo Fisher
Session 1:Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
Moderator Dr. Hamid Liacini
Stem Cell Registry & Cord Blood Banking
Dr. Dunia Jawdat
Impact of HLA antibodies on the outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Dr. Ashraf Dada
Automated Lymphocytes Isolation Directly from Whole Blood
Mr. Graeme Milton
Coffee break/ Booth visit
Session 2:HLA Technical
Moderator Dr. Ashraf Dada
Bioinformatics challenges in next generation sequencing era: solving peculiar cases and other awkward biological Phenomena
Dr. Erik Rozemuller
NGS & Finding New HLA Alleles
Mr. Faisal Al Oufi
Assessment of fidelity and utility of the Whole-Genome Amplification (WGA) for the clinical tests offered in a histocompatibility and Immunogenetics laboratory
Dr. Hamid Liacini
Lunch Break
Satellite Symposium with the kind support of GENDX
Sensitive strategies for high-resolution HLA typing and accurate Chimerism monitoring to support hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Dr. Wietse Mulder
Case study presentation
Ms. Amal Al Gharably (KSA)
Case study presentation
Ms. Zainab Bahman (Kuwait)
Case study presentation
Ms. Kholoud Aljassim (Qatar)
Case study presentation
Ms. Layla Al Katheeri (UAE)
Panel discussion and Case study Award