Centre for Transplantation, Urology & Kidney Disease - Kidney Transplantation Symposium 2026

10 December 2026 09:00 to 11 December 2026 17:00

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Part of Centre for Transplantation, Urology & Kidney Disease (CTUKD) Courses & Symposium

Event Information

The kidney transplantation event returns for 2026. This two-day course is designed for consultant and trainee nephrologists but would also be useful for other health care professionals in the field of kidney transplantation. During the course, you will get an update on all aspects of kidney transplantation by expert clinicians, take part in discussions and assess difficult cases.

Event Details – 10-11^th December 2026, Hybrid Symposium, Microsoft TEAMS & Boland House, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9GU

Registration – Please register here - KCL & GSTT Kidney Transplantation Symposium registration.

Programme

Thursday 10th of December 2026
Time		Topic	Speaker	Institution
08:30	08:50	Registration - doors open at 08:30
08:50	09:00	Welcome
09:10	09:40	Transplant Choices for the Diabetic Patient	Mr. Chris Callaghan – Consultant Transplant Surgeon	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
09:40	10:10	"Marginal" living donors? E.g Older donors, lower GFR donors, APOL1 higher risk donors	Dr. Rachel Hilton - Consultant Nephrologist	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
10:10	11:10	AI in transplantation	Dr Ellie Asgari - Consultant Nephrologist	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
11:10	11:40	Coffee break
11:40	12:10	Post-transplant infections	Prof. Sian Griffin - Professor of Nephrology and Consultant Nephrologist	Cardiff
12:10	12:40	Transplant rejection	TBC	Leeds
12:40	13:40	Lunch Break
13:40	14:10	Haematology for the transplant nephrologist - PTLD	Prof. Sylvain Choquet - Professor of Heamatology	Paris. France
14:10	14:40	Options for the sensitized patient (Kidney Paired Donation, Desensitization, ABOi, HLAi)	Dr David Game - Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Lecturer	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
14:40	15:10	Thrombotic Microangiopathy following renal transplantation	Prof. Neil Sheerin – Professor of Nephrology and Consultant Nephrologist	Freeman Hospital Newcastle
15:10	15:30	Coffee break
15:30	16:00	Transplanting the elderly	Dr John Holland - Clinical Fellow in Nephrology	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
16:00	17:00	Key note speaker	Prof. Maarten Naesens - Professor of Transplantation	KU Leuven, Beligum
Friday 11th of December 2026
Time		Topic	Speaker	Institution
09:00	09:30	Woman's health post-transplant	TBC
09:30	10:00	Recurrent UTI post renal transplantation and transplant urology for the nephrologist	Ms Rhana Zakri - Consultant Transplant Surgeon	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
10:00	10:30	Metabolic disease et Cardiovascular disease management post- Tx	Prof. Adnan Sharif – Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Honorary Associate Professor at University of Birmingham	University of Birmingham
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	11:30	Dermatology for the transplant nephrologist	Dr Matthew Bottomley - Clinical Career Development Fellow and Group Lead at the CAMS Oxford Institute. Honorary Consultant Nephrologist.	Oxford
11:30	12:00	Bone disease post transplantation	Prof. Pieter Evenepoel - Chair of the European Renal Osteodystrophy	Belgium
12:00	12:30	What new in Transplantation in 2026 ?	TBC
12:30	13:15	Lunch Break
13:15	13:45	Transplant Histopathology update for the nephrologist	Dr Candice Rufosse – Renal Pathologist at Imperial College NHS Trust	Imperial College London
13:45	14:15	Real-Life Case Vignettes and panel discussion (AMR/CAMR/MVI)	Dr. Chowdhury/ Dr Alec Dawson – Consultant Nephrologists	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
14:15	15:00	Ethics Case Vignettes and panel discussion (Ethics)	TBC	Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
15:00	15:30	Coffee break
15:30	16:00	Transplantopoly	Dr Adrienne Seitz - Consultant nephrologist and H&I	Leeds

Symposium Aims

At the end of this course, the participants will

Understand how to assess kidney donors and recipients
Get an update about diagnosis and current management of the medical complications of transplantation
Get an up-to-date in the clinical management of transplantation and its complications
Understand how to improve the short and the long-term outcomes of renal transplant recipients

Learning outcomes

Assess the suitability of potential kidney donors and recipients using current best practice principles.
Evaluate and manage the medical complications associated with kidney transplantation.
Apply current evidence and contemporary approaches to the clinical management of kidney transplant recipients.
Implement strategies to optimise both short-term and long-term transplant outcomes.

About Guy's Hospital

Guy’s Hospital is a leading institution in the field of renal transplantation. We celebrated our 50th anniversary since the first kidney transplantation in the year 2022.

The Department of Renal and Transplant at Guy’s is one of the largest in the UK, providing kidney care to South East London, neighboring areas of Kent and the Channel Islands. In addition, we receive a significant number of complex referrals from a much wider geographical area.

We perform over 280 transplants each year, have the largest living kidney donor programme in the country and are a supra-regional centre for both combined kidney/pancreas and pancreas alone transplantation. We have one of the largest blood group and HLA incompatible transplant programmes in the UK.

We have expertise in transplant urology, dual kidney transplantation and in complex transplant recipients including recipients with sickle cell disease and antiphospholipid syndrome.

We are nationally recognised for quality of care, innovation in clinical practice and service delivery, and for our close functional and geographical integration with the research programmes of partners at Kings College London and the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre.

If you have any questions, please contact ctukeducation@kcl.ac.uk