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Registration for ISHLT’s 44th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions and Pre-Conference Day is open. ISHLT2024 will be held in-person only on 10-13 April in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Vienna Multidisciplinary Symposium on humoral immunity after lung transplantation offers a whole overview on this topic for the first time. Top-leading scientists and transplant physicians are invited to elaborate different areas and perspectives of this threatening complication after lung transplantation. Finally, inclusion of a multidisciplinary faculty allows a holistic approach for interesting discussions.

If you’re planning to attend ISHLT2024 in Prague, consider applying to be a Roving Reporter to help cover the scientific content at the conference on social media.

As the ISHLT conference in Prague approaches, this webinar by the ISHLT Early Career and Trainee Committee will equip participants with a comprehensive toolkit for navigating the event seamlessly.

This year JHLT launched a GOLD Open Access Publication, JHLT Open. JHLT Open brings readers essential scholarly and timely information in the field of cardiopulmonary transplantation, mechanical and biological support of the failing heart, advanced lung disease (including pulmonary vascular disease) and cell replacement therapy.

ISHLT Journal Watch is a periodic publication presented by the ISHLT Early Career and Trainee Committee, and is available in both English y en Español. This month’s issue explores topics in Pediatrics and was edited by Jacob Mathew, MBBS, FRACP.

Natera returns with another ISHLT Voices podcast. Post-transplant monitoring with noninvasive donor derived cell free DNA (dd-cfDNA) has been growing in popularity and usage with several transplant centers significantly reducing surveillance biopsies in favor of a single blood test. But, as with all new technology, there are outstanding questions to understand how and why the technology works as well as it does.

Harveen Lamba, MD, MSc, an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine is featured in this installment of Early Career Stories.

Plan to attend the ISHLT Academies taking place in Prague on Tuesday, 9 April. Dive deeper into these topics with expert faculty.

The preliminary scientific program for the ISHLT 44th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions is now available at ishlt.org/ishlt2024. The program includes details on more than 40 symposia sessions and allows you to filter content by core therapy and practice area.

ISHLT is a non-profit, professional, multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the care of patients by promoting research, education, and advocacy. As such, we are writing to express our support for molecular testing of donor derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) for the assessment of allograft injury, and to request that all commercial insurance plans include coverage for this clinical tool.

Two new ISHLT Standards & Guidelines Consensus Documents have been published in JHLT and are available to read online! Led by Manreet Kanwar, MD and David Baran, MD these two documents are the result of the 2022 Consensus Conference on Cardiogenic Shock.

The webinar included general aspects and outcomes of modern antiretroviral therapies, understanding the pathophysiology of cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure (and kidney failure) in HIV+ patients, and the current application of cardiac heart replacement therapies including heart transplant and left ventricular support in this population.

On the December 2023 episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors explore two studies from the December issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation: one on the impact of age and telomere length on t-cells and rejection risk after lung transplantation, and the other on the best imaging modality for tracking and treating CAV.

The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has announced the results of the election for the 2024 Board of Directors as well as leadership positions in the Professional Communities. The Society will welcome four new members to the Board of Directors and 16 leaders across ISHLT’s professional specialty communities to serve as representatives to the 4 ISHLT Interdisciplinary Network Steering Committees and the Early Career & Trainee Committee. Terms begin 1 May, 2024, immediately following the ISHLT 44th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions.

ISHLT2024 will take place in Prague, Czech Republic next April. Dive into the culinary scene of Czech food. Find the most authentic Czech dishes in little local pubs or cafeteria-style restaurants in center Prague.

ISHLT Journal Watch is a periodic publication presented by the ISHLT Early Career and Trainee Committee, and is available in both English y en Español. This month’s issue explores topics in Cardiothoracic Surgery and was edited by Kukbin Choi, MD.

Part three in this ISHLT Voices podcast series presented by Zambon USA explores bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and takes a deep dive into CLAD phenotype differentiation, current gaps in diagnosis and management of BOS, emerging treatment strategies, and finally, discuss the advances made in BOS diagnosis and management over the last decade.

Nominations are now being accepted for the first award offered by ISHLT to recognize and reward the mentors among its membership. The recipient of this award will be announced at the 44thAnnual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in Prague in April 2024, and applications will be accepted until 17 January, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET / 18 January, 2024 at 03:59 UTC.