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Introduction: On Banff 2003, Aberdeen, Scotland, and What Robert Burns Would Think!

Introduction: On Banff 2003, Aberdeen, Scotland, and What Robert Burns Would Think!. Kim Solez, M.D. Going to Scotland: A Good Idea!.

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Introduction: On Banff 2003, Aberdeen, Scotland, and What Robert Burns Would Think!

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  1. Introduction: On Banff 2003, Aberdeen, Scotland, and What Robert Burns Would Think! Kim Solez, M.D.

  2. Going to Scotland: A Good Idea! The most registrants we have ever had with many new faces! We hope that you all will join us in the summer of 2005 in Edmonton for the 8th Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology!

  3. Why Banff? Searching for the Muse(s)! For productive discourse, creativity. Doug Wilson will discuss the muses and reflect back on the meeting’s history from 1991 on, on Tuesday the 17th.

  4. Aberdeen - Close to but not Banff!

  5. Future Banff Meetings:2005: Edmonton, Canada 2007: Edinburgh, Scotland2009: Banff, Canada

  6. Banff Conferences on Allograft Pathology

  7. Global consensus generation while maintaining intellectual freedom.

  8. Like the mosh pit at a great rock concert. No partner, the ultimate in individuality, dangerous, but when the music is good everyone dances in sync and life is good.

  9. "Possess the right thinking, in this you must never lapse."Splinter - ninja master/talking rat - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie (1990)

  10. Dr. Racusen is largely responsible for having constructed the exciting program!

  11. Subjects in Aberdeen Banff meeting • Updates of Schemas for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allograft Rejection • Chronic transplant nephropathy • Genomics of Rejection • Antibody-mediated rejection/C4d • Monocyte/Macrophages • Tolerance/Accomodation/Immunodepletion • Continued Development/Consensus Generation via Internet Communication

  12. Many Unique Elements in Banff 2003: EQA slides (UK) First time as official satellite.First time ITN represented.First inclusion of history … and golf!Dr. David HamiltonFirst Video Legacy interview. Dr. Stewart Cameron

  13. Banff Classification Milestones • 1991 First Conference, Heart Represented • 1993 First Kidney International paper, Liver start. • 1995 Integration with CADI - identical scoring. Liver classification. • 1997 Integration with CCTT classification. Liver classification published. • 1999 Second KI paper. Clinical practice guidelines. Implantation biopsies, microwave. Liver chr. reject. • 2001 Classification of antibody-mediated rejection. Regulatory agencies participating. Heart progress.

  14. Banff Classification Impact • 291 publications containing the word “Banff”! • 100 publications containing the phrase “Banff Classification”!

  15. Banff Classification Key Publications • 1993 Solez et al. International standardization of criteria for the histologic diagnosis of renal allograft rejection: the Banff working classification of kidney transplant pathology. Kidney Int. 1993 Aug;44(2):411-22. • 1997 Banff schema for grading liver allograft rejection: an international consensus document.Hepatology. 1997 Mar;25(3):658-63 • 1999 Racusen et al. The Banff 97 working classification of renal allograft pathology. Kidney Int. 1999 Feb;55(2):713-23.

  16. Banff Classification Key Publications (cont.) • 2001 Demetris et al, Update of the International Banff Schema for Liver Allograft Rejection: working recommendations for the histopathologic staging and reporting of chronic rejection. An International Panel. Hepatology. 2000 Mar;31(3):792-9. • 2003 Rodriguez ER; International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The pathology of heart transplant biopsy specimens: revisiting the 1990 ISHLT working formulation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2003 Jan;22(1):3-15.

  17. Banff Classification Key Publications (cont.) 2003 Racusen, Colvin, Solez et al. Antibody-Mediated Rejection Criteria - an Addition to the Banff '97 Classification of Renal Allograft Rejection.Am J Transplant. 2003 Jun;3(6):708-714.

  18. What would Robert Burns have thought of us? He was a strong supporter of internationalism and love in all its senses, including that in moshing and Town Halls!So probably he would have approved!

  19. “A Man’s A Man for a’ That” by Robert BurnsThen let us pray that come what may, (As come it will for a’ that) That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth, May bear the gree* and a’ that, For a’ that, a’ a’ that,It’s coming yet for a’ that. That Man to Man, the world o’er,Shall brothers be for a’ that!*gree = be victorious

  20. Hope this presentation has been useful to you even if you do not completely agree!Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do, Morpheus. Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to. from TheMatrix Reloaded (Released May 15,2003)

  21. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our sponsors:Fujisawa GmbHNovartis PharmaceuticalsPfizer Inc. SangStat Medical Corporation Wyeth-Ayerst PharmaceuticalsOlympus MicroscopesThe National Kidney Foundation, US

  22. Standards/Guidelines leaders:The National Kidney Foundation, USDOQI guidelines (bone latest)NKF cyberNephrologyBanff Conferences

  23. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our co-organizers:Dr. Jake DemetrisDr. Rene Rodriguez

  24. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our hosts:The University of AberdeenThe City of Aberdeen

  25. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our local organizers:Prof. John Simpsonand staffProf. Andy Reesand staff

  26. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our tour guide:Elma McMenemy

  27. Drs. Solez and Racusen would like to thank … our meeting coordinator:Michele Hales

  28. Please visit the posters!Monday, 16 June 2003 8:00 - 8:30 Poster Viewing - Near Linklater Room1:30 - 12:30 Poster Viewing - Near Linklater Room  Afternoon free for delegates, except for those attending the Liver Sessions

  29. Final housekeeping remarks.Be on time for buses!Book tours today! Leave us your PowerPoint file!We wish you an enjoyable and profitable conference!Come back in 2005, 2007, 2009 etc.!

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