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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (JHLT), an official publication of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), will release a special issue in Q4 2026 dedicated to manuscripts exploring aspects of donor selection and organ preservation related to thoracic transplantation. Submissions for this issue are now being accepted until Tuesday, 30 June 2026.

All ISHLT members are invited to join Society leaders and fellow members for the 2026 ISHLT Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, 6 May at 5:00 p.m. ET/21:00 UTC.

Explore the science coming to Toronto in your specialty and ISHLT Professional Community. These highlight sheets provide a glimpse into the ISHLT2026 symposia, oral, and mini oral sessions that may fit your interests.

The ISHLT is honored to announce the inaugural class of Fellows of the ISHLT (ISHLTF). Congratulations to these 67 members!

Meet the ISHLT2026 Roving Reporters. These eleven ISHLT members will be posting summaries and insights through ISHLT2026. Connect with them on social media to follow along!

In JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors bring on guest Pauline Pradère, MD, of Hôpital Marie Lannelongue in Paris, to discuss lung cancer after lung transplantation, and the management of these complex patients.

The webinar “From Insight to Action: Integrating Cell-Free DNA Testing into Daily Transplant Care”, presented by Natera, features leading voices in transplantation for a dynamic discussion on cell-free DNA (cfDNA) technology. Stream it online now.

Presented by the ISHLT Early Career and Trainee Committee, this month's ISHLT Journal Watch explores topics in critical care and transplant-related topics in anesthesiology.

ISHLT is seeking nominations for the 2027 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2027 Amanda W. Rowe Distinguished Service Award. Nominations will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET/21:00 UTC on Friday, 15 May, 2026.

The ISHLT has endorsed the 2026 International CTEPH Conference (ICC 2026), taking place 11-13 June in Warsaw, Poland.

The ISHLT supported the 2024 global survey on International Travel for Organ Transplantation (ITOT), conducted by the ITOT Research Collaborative. While the full study is currently under journal review, early findings provide a valuable snapshot of how transplant tourism is experienced in contemporary clinical practice, and why it matters for our community.

The ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in Toronto is the place to reconnect with your peers, meet colleagues, and dig deeper into the science of heart and lung disease and transplantation. Check out these events.

For the ISHLT’s 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, two travel awards were offered to support the attendance of ISHLT members in Toronto, ON Canada from 22-25 April.

Transplant infectious diseases expert Cameron Wolfe, MD, Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, is the guest on JHLT The Podcast for a conversation on how transplant centers now consider HIV infection, including transplant recipients who are HIV positive.

The ISHLT Interdisciplinary Network (IDN) Steering Committees invite ISHLT members to take a brief survey to help guide the Society’s work in the coming year. Each IDN has a correlating survey that will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Complete the survey by Thursday, 26 March.

El comité de la ISHLT en Español te invita a formar parte de nuestra comunidad. La ISHLT es una de las sociedades internacionales más prestigiosas dedicadas al cuidado de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca o pulmonar avanzada, trasplante torácico, asistencia circulatoria y enfermedad vascular pulmonar.

A new ISHLT Document, Summary of the ISHLT Consensus Conference on Graft Dysfunction within the First 72 hours after Heart Transplantation: A 10-year Update, has been published in JHLT and is available to read online!

Abstracts for the ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions are now available to view online, alongside details of the invited lecture symposia that make up the full scientific program for ISHLT2026.

Trainee and early career attendees of ISHLT2026 are invited to attend the Early Career Mentor Meetup reception, supported by Natera, on Wednesday, 22 April. Learn more about the invited mentors who will be at the reception.

JHLT: The Podcast hosts the first of two themed conversations around HIV in solid organ transplant by discussions a paper on heart transplant using HIV+ donors with Omar Saeed of Montefiore Medical Center in New York.