2nd National UK HOPE Meeting
The HOPE Revolution: More Organs. More Lives. More Time.
The Composer’s Suite, Edgbaston Park Hotel, Birmingham
Tuesday 4th November, 2025, 10:00 – 16:00
Free Registration*
*Delegates will need to cover their own travel and accommodation costs
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Why Attend?
This packed agenda offers cutting-edge insights into machine perfusion, donor liver preservation strategies, paediatric outcomes, and surgical innovations. Delegates will hear from leading experts, engage in critical debates shaping the future of DCD liver transplantation, and gain access to the latest UK and international data. With opportunities for networking, discussions on economic impact, and a glimpse into evolving protocols, attendees will leave equipped with actionable knowledge to enhance clinical decision-making.
Agenda
Morning Session
10:00 – 10:15
Introduction
Nigel Hircock, Bridge to Life
10:15 – 10:45
Machine Perfusion Data Deep Dive
Analysis of the latest Machine Perfusion data from Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Birmingham; how practice has changed since the introduction of HOPE; subsection focused on prolonged perfusion (4 hrs+)
George Clarke, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
HOPE alone/ NRP+HOPE / NRP / NRP+NMP: What is best for DCD livers?
HOPE alone
Rebeca Sanabria Mateos, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham
NRP+HOPE
Damiano Patrono, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
NRP
Carlo Ceresa, Royal Free Hospital, London
NRP+NMP
Rohit Gaurav, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
Debate: ‘What is best for DCD livers?’ – interactive round table session
Moderator: Rebeca Sanabria Mateos, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham
12:00 – 12:45
Paediatric outcomes with HOPE
Miriam Cortes Cerisuelo, King’s College Hospital, London
Debate: ‘Future potential of HOPE in paediatric transplant’
Moderator: Barbara Fiore, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds
12:45 – 13:40
Buffet lunch
Afternoon Session
13:40 – 14:00
UW vs HTK data
Abdul Hakeem, King’s College Hospital, London
14:00 – 14:15
Novel Approach to Viability Assessment of Split Liver Grafts using Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion
Rebecca Paconesi, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
14:15 – 14:30
Coffee break
14:30 – 15:15
The economics of implementing HOPE
US data from Bridge to HOPE study: Chase J Wehrle, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
UK data: Russ Bolton, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham
15:15 – 15:45
Liver resection on HOPE?
Olivier Scatton, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris
15:45 – 16:00
Concluding remarks
Registration is Free. Delegates will need to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
Additional Information
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MasterClass venue is an approximate 10 minute cab ride from the nearest train station.
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Unreserved parking is available on site.
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Thackray Museum of Medicine information
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Nearby Accommodations
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Leeds information
Speakers
Barbara Fiore
Leeds
Bio
Rod Figueiredo
Newcastle
Bio
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
Bio
Keziah Crick
Royal Free
Bio
Colin Wilson
Newcastle
Bio
Registration is Free. Delegates will need to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
