34th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)

The meeting will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, which is ideally situated on San Diego Bay, between the San Diego Conve ntion Center and the city’s popular Seaport Village. The hotel offers a spectacular waterfront resort-like setting, complete with shopping, dining and ente rtainment venues that can be found steps away in the Gaslamp Quarter. On Saturday, the President’s Cocktail Reception will be held poolside at the Mancheste r Grand Hyatt pool.

The opening plenary session focuses on cutting edge science related to personalizing approaches to patient care, including how “Digitizing Humans Changes the Future of Medicine.” A later plenary focusing on the changing landscape of thoracic organ donors will include cutti ng edge information from ongoing trials of DCD transplants and will feature Nobel Laureate Dr. Al Roth discussing the ethics and economics of organ allo cation policy. Finally the closing plenary embodies the theme of the comprehensive approach to improving care for all patients, and will include consensus statements, as well as featured lectures on caregiver burden, improving HLA compatibility, and a spirited debate on therapies for secondary PH.

The majority of the meeting will be devoted to submitted content. In anticipation of your contribution of high quality, novel s cientific work, we have set aside 8 series of 6 concurrently running oral sessions to showcase the highest scoring abstracts. Mini-oral poster sessions and general poster sessions are planned for the best of the remainder; all poster sessions will be moderated to highlight the valuable scientific work pres ented.