Reflections on “7 of the Best Oral Presentations” from BTS 2023

Dr Ellie Asgari’s reflections on “7 of the Best Oral Presentations” from the British Transplantation Society Annual Congress 2023 in Edinburgh.

Presentations explored within reflections include:

• Peripheral blood signatures of clazakizumab in late antibody-mediated kidney transplant rejection – Roy Zhang
• Hypothermic oxygenated perfusion to improve donor heart quality – Lu Wang
• OTDT Together – Realising our combined potential to save and improve more lives – Ben Cole
• Outcomes and clinical course in end stage kidney disease secondary to rare diseases – Maria Kilaris
• An audit of the diagnosis of death using neurological criteria following therapeutic decompressive craniectomy – Jennifer Overend
• Expansion of “REACH Transplant” initiative: Home-based living donor kidney transplantation (LKDT) education for patients in Scotland – Orla Hobson
• Occult fibrin in deceased donor livers is associated with transplant failure and cholangiopathy – Chris Watson

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• Dr Ellie Asgari

  Consultant Nephrologist

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  Dr Ellie Asgari

  Consultant Nephrologist Guys Hospital, London

  Role and Location

  Consultant Nephrologist, Guys Hospital, London

  Education

  • Trained as a nephrologist and general physician in South London
  • Completed PhD at Guy’s Hospital looking at the role of the innate immune system in ischemia/reperfusion injury at the time of kidney transplantation.

  Research Interests

  Interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, kidney disease, transplantation and governance

  Membership

  President of the Nephrology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and Chair of the British Transplantation Society Standards and Guidelines Committee