IPTA Section Distinguished Awards

Pioneer in Transplantation

The IPTA Pioneer in Transplantation Award acknowledges individuals who are recognized by their peers as leading pioneering research or clinical initiatives in the field of pediatric transplantation. They are influential, ground-breaking, and at the forefront of pediatric transplantation.

Deirdre Kelly

Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, Birmingham Women's and Children's, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2022 Recipient

Lifetime Achievement Award

Recognizes an IPTA member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of pediatric transplantation over the course of their career.

Ron Shapiro

Professor of Surgery, Surgical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai/Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, NY, United States

2022 Recipient

Distinguished Allied Health and Nursing Professionals Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize an Allied Health and Nursing Professional member who has rendered years of faithful service to the Society and/or who has made a significant contribution to pediatric transplantation.

Louise Bannister

Dietitian, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON, Canada

2022 Recipient

Future Leaders Career Development Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize future investigators who show leadership promises, encourage them in their careers in pediatric transplantation.

Noelle Ebel

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Unites States

2022 Recipient

Aine Lynch

Clinical Fellow, Heart Function and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON, Canada

2022 Recipient

IPTA Congress Scientific Award Winners

Catherine Patterson

Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Centre The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON, Canada

Allied health and nursing practices in pediatric solid organ transplantation: An international survey

March 27 | 14:00 EST
Oral abstract session on Allied Health

Ferran Coens

Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Retransplantation outcomes in paediatric kidney transplant recipients- the Eurotransplant experience

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

Mehak Malhotra

Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

Cytokine profile of allograft ‘post-reperfusion first-flush’ urine sample as a predictor of adverse graft outcome in renal transplantation

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

Raja Dandamudi

Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis, MO, United States

Association of the novel peripheral blood biomarkers donor–derived cell–free DNA (dd–cfDNA) and anellovirus (AnV) DNA load to post-transplant month 12 measured GFR and surveillance biopsy interstitial fibrosis amount in pediatric kidney transplantation (pKTx)

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

Nima Memaran

Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Telomere shortening is associated with increasing intima – media thickness in pediatric liver transplant patients

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

IPTA-TTS Congress Scientific Award Winners

Jorge Arroyo Orvañanos

Hospital Infantil De Mexico Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico

Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Burden of Disease Under a Preemptive Therapy Approach

March 27 | 09:15 EST
Oral abstract session on Infectious disease and malignancies

Kim Piburn

Stanford University - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, CA, United States

High tacrolimus intrapatient variability is associated with inferior graft outcomes in pediatric and young adult kidney transplant recipients

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

Javier Serradilla

Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Experimental assay of intestinal graft viability and function after regional abdominal normothermic perfusion

March 28 | 15:20 EST
Best Trainee and Allied Health Research Abstracts session

Kristen Sgambat

Children's National Hospital, Washington DC, DC, United States

Changes in diastolic function and cardiac geometry after pediatric kidney transplantation: a longitudinal study

March 28 | 10:00 EST
Oral abstract session on Kidney cardiovascular

Natalia Yanet Panero Schipper

Garrahan Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Decreased incidence of typical uremic hemolytic syndrome as a cause for kidney transplantation in children at Garrahan Hospital

Mini-Oral Presentation

IPTA-ESOT Award for Best Abstract in Pediatric Transplantation

Felicia Kjaernet

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Long-term outcome and complications in paediatric ABO-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation with rituximab induction: A multi-centre investigation from the Nordic Paediatric Renal Transplantation Study Group (NPRTSG)

March 27 | 14:00 EST
Oral abstract session on Kidney Clinical – Part 1