1st UK National HOPE in Liver Transplantation Masterclass
Thackray Museum, Leeds
12th June 2024
Introduction to Organ Preservation
Practical Applications and Innovations in Organ Machine Perfusion
Speakers
Barbara Fiore
Leeds
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Rod Figueiredo
Newcastle
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Samuel James Tingle, MD (PhD Candidate)
Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Tingle is a surgeon and PhD candidate at Newcastle University. He is a Specialist Registrar in Surgery and an MRC Clinical Research Fellow in Transplantation. Dr. Tingle has maintained a relationship with the transplantation team at the Freeman Hospital since medical school, facilitating his continual involvement in multiple laboratory-based, translational and clinical research projects throughout his MRes, Academic Foundation Programme and Academic Clinical Fellowship. His research interests include machine perfusion, registry analysis, big data and meta-analysis.
Dr. Tingle is currently a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Fellow and Cochrane Clinical Answers Associate Editor. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Tingle is the recipient of the North East Surgical Training Academy NESTAC Medal for oral presentation of research, and is the recipient of several research grants, including most recently MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship, with joint Kidney Research UK funding, the Wellcome Trust Translational Partnership – Early Translational Funding and Quality in Organ Donation Research Grant.
Dr. Tingle’s first-author publications include Donor Liver Blood Tests and Liver Transplant Outcomes: UK Registry Cohort Study, Transplantation, and Machine perfusion in liver transplantation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Philipp Dutkowski Prof. Dr. Med.
Professor of Surgery, Deputy Head of Visceral Surgery
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Philipp Dutkowski, MD is currently Professor of Surgery at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland where he recently joined to start their liver transplant program. Prior to this appointment, he was Head of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Director of the Liver Transplant Program in Zurich. He started his surgical career in 1993 in Germany at the University of Mainz, and completed his board certification for Surgery in 1999, and for Visceral Surgery in 2002. In parallel, he completed his thesis for Habilitation in 2001, after establishing a research group in the field of liver preservation. In 2004, he joined the group of Pierre Alain Clavien in Zurich, and succeeded to translate basic research on machine liver perfusion into clinical application. Since 2009, he leads the abdominal transplant program in Zurich.
David Nasralla
Royal Free
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Keziah Crick
Royal Free
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Colin Wilson
Newcastle
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