Brisbane Transplant Infectious Diseases Day 2025
BTID Day 2025 was an exciting day focused on providing updates and reflections on what’s new in Transplant Infectious Diseases. We want to thank everyone who attended the event, and the speakers who joined us from all over the world to talk about a broad range of topics across the solid organ transplant arena! Themes included:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in TID with a focus on
- HLH and infection-driven inflammatory syndromes
- CAR-T therapies
- Infection vigilance systems
- Novel diagnostics and therapeutics for fungal infections
- Surgical updates including complications of BKVAN and Infectious Diseases considerations in organ perfusion
- A Deep Dive into data and registries – harnessing the power of data to drive research and quality improvement
We look forward to hosting this meeting again in 2026! You can subscribe to CRE RESPOND to receive an invitation or keep an eye on our socials CRE RESPOND X, CRE RESPOND Bluesky, or CRE RESPOND LinkedIn.
You can watch the presentations on our YouTube, or alternatively, view the recordings below.
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Program Overview
8am Registrations
8:20am Welcome
Session 1: Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in post transplant infections
Chair: Dr Becky Leung, Haematology / CAR-T Fellow, Department of Haematology and BMT, The Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
Dr Luke Aaron - HLH: Case Adult
Dr Tiarni Templeton - HLH: Case Paediatric
Dr Peter McNaughton - HLH Overview
Dr Stephen Boyle - CAR-T and Infections
Ms Tina Coco - Notification processes including VSEAC (We regret to advise that this recording will not be shared)
Session 2: Fungal diagnostics and therapies
Chair: Dr Anna Hume, Microbiologist Pathology Queensland, and Infectious Diseases Physician (RBWH and STARS)
Dr Daniel Yeoh - Paediatric IFD: current diagnostics
Dr Beatrice Sim - Novel fungal diagnostics
Dr Kanthi Vemuri - Update on newer antifungals
Ms Amy Legg - Pharmacogenomic-optimised dosing of voriconazole
Mr Sean Unwin - Accessing Unregistered Antimicrobials
Session 3: Surgical aspects of transplantation
Chair: Dr Handoo Rhee, Urological and Transplant Surgeon, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Dr Samantha Ng, Nephrologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Dr Handoo Rhee - Polyoma Virus and Genitourinary Malignancy/Surgical Implications (We regret to advise that this recording will not be shared)
Dr Maddison Taylor - BK Virus & Micropapillary Urothelial Carcinoma
Dr Pramudith Sirimanna - Liver transplant – machine perfusion outcomes
Professor John Fraser - Update on XVIVO Perfusion techniques (We regret to advise that this recording will not be shared)
Dr Lana Sundac - Microbiology of preservation and perfusion fluids
Session 4: Networks and registries
Chair: Dr Anna Francis, Paediatric Nephrologist and Clinician Researcher, Queensland Children's Hospital
Ms Leonie Wilcox - Transplant and cell therapy registry perspectives
Dr Gabrielle Haeusler - Paediatric febrile neutropenia: results from Paediatric network
Dr Beatrice Sim - Pathways to training in transplant ID
Dr Monica Ng - Donor Registries
5pm Q&A and Close
The convenors for this meeting are Dr Lana Sundac, Dr Samantha Ng, Associate Professor Julia Clark, Dr Andrea Henden, Professor Jason Roberts, Dr Beatrice Sim, Dr Kanthi Vemuri, and Dr Andrew Burke.
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About Brisbane Transplant Infectious Diseases meeting
The organising committee are pleased to present the 3rd Brisbane Transplant Infectious Diseases meeting on Thursday 8 May 2025. This will be an interdisciplinary and collaborative meeting focused on transplant and infectious diseases care.
Bringing together local clinicians, scientists, and other healthcare professionals in the field of infectious diseases, immunology, and transplant medicine, the meeting will give individuals a forum to present their active research or clinical interests. We hope this also offers healthcare specialty groups and basic science researchers a chance to form successful research and clinical relationships.
By shining a light on the clinical challenges of transplant patients in Queensland related to infectious diseases, we work to provide a platform for cutting-edge translational research and improved patient care.
The full-day seminar series will be held at the Queensland Children's Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Venue
501 Stanley St, South Brisbane
Queensland, Australia