Hyatt Regency Downtown Miami
Conference Celebrity Constellation Cruise Ship
January 2nd – 7th, 2013
Miami, Florida, USA
City of Miami in the days before the beginning of the Conference of the American College of Cryosurgery (ACC)
Day 1
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Pre-Cruise Conference
Hyatt Regency Downtown Miami, Jasmine & Hibiscus Rooms
President’s Reception & Welcome
UNESCO Professor John G. Baust, PhD
President of the American College of Cryosurgery
Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, USA, and Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, Austria, are pleased to meet again
Keynote: Dr. Jim Vaught, NIH, NCI. Topic: NCI Cancer Specimen Biorepositaries
Immediately afterwards the Keynote Presentation, Yasmine Room
Poster Session Presentation
Prof. Dr. Andy A. Gage, American College of Cryosurgery and Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, International Society of Cryosurgery
Scientific Poster discussion on Laptop
Exhibition
Poster by Dr. Glasmacher, Germany
Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, General Secretary of Board of Governors of the ISC, USA and Ing. Jean-Pierre Lalonde, AF Solutions | Medtronic CryoCath, Canada
Day 2
Hyatt Regency Miami & Board Celebrity Constellation Cruise Ship
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Port of Miami, Florida
Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, General Secretary of Board of Governors of the ISC with wife Francoise, USA, on board of the cruise ship
...first minutes on the cruise ship: Mrs. Francoise Le Pivert, USA (right) and Dr. Korpan, Austria (left)
Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert is waiting for the first Keynote Presentation on board of the cruise ship
Keynote:
UNESCO Professor John G. Baust, PhD
President of the American College of Cryosurgery
Topic: Advances in Cryoablation
Session 1: Gastroenterology: Cryotherapy via flexible endoscopy in the GI tract
Prof. Dr. Andy A. Gage
Networking Social
Key West, Florida, USA
City View
Visiting: The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
Return to the ship – The scientific sessions of ACCryo2013 will be continued
Day 3
Friday, January 4, 2013
Cinema Conference Center, Celebrity Constellation Cruise Ship
Keynote: Professor Dr. Michael S. Sabel, Topic: Cryo-Immunology: The Stimulatory and Suppressive Effects of Cryoablation on the Immune Response
Sessions 2 & 3: Multi-Modal Treatments and Clinical Cryosurgical Experience. Lecture by Prof. John C. Bischof, PhD
Oral presentation by Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, USA
Oral Presentation by Professor Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, Topic: Cryosurgery for Breast Cancer: A Challenge in Current and Future Invasive Oncology. Clinical Experience since 1995
Day 4
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Cinema Conference Center, Celebrity Constellation Cruise Ship
Sessions 4-6: Hypothermic Medicine, Blood Cell Preservation & Preservation of Biotherapeutic Products
Professor Dr. Michael J. Taylor, Topic: Cell & Tissue Systems, “Integration of time-honored principles of hypothermic cellular protection with modern day modalities of organ preservation”
John M. Baust, PhD, Topic: CPSI Biotech, “Molecular approaches to improving hypothermic biopreservation of cells and tissues”
Professor Dr. John Crowe, Topic: Freeze-dried Platelets: Moving Towards Clinical Use
Dr. Jason Acker, Topic: The Challenges and Limitations of Current Clinical Methods for the Hypothermic storage and Cryopreservation of human red blood cells
Excursion:
Cozumel, Mexico
Tulum, Riviera Maya
Return to the Cruise Ship
Day 5
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Conference Center Cinema, Celebrity Constellation Cruise Ship
Keynote: Professor Dr. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen. Topic: Whole gland cryosurgical ablation of prostate cancer
Sessions 7 & 8: Clinical Applications of Cryo-technology in Cardiac Arrhythmia
Dr. Gary Onik, Topic: MR Guided Cryoablation
American College of Cryosurgery Business Meeting. UNESCO Prof. John G. Baust, PhD, Prof. Dr. Andy A. Gage, Prof. John C. Bischof, PhD, Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan (from left)
Prof Dr. Andy A. Gage
Farewell Cocktail Reception and Closing Remarks
John M. Baust, PhD
Prof. Dr. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen
John M. Baust, Kristi K. Snyder, Nikolai N. Korpan and Judy Baust (from right)
Scientific talk and discussion on Cryoscience between Prof. Dr. Michael S. Sabel, USA, and Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, Austria
Dr. Barlian Sutedja, Indonesia, Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, USA, and Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, Austria
UNESCO Prof. John G. Baust, PhD (right) with wife Judy, Prof. Dr. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen with wife (left)
Prof. Dr. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen...
Dr. Gloria Graham (left) with Dr. Andy Gage and his wife Arlene
Kristi K. Snyder, PhD, Conference Coordinator
Prof. Dr. John H. Crowe and his wife
Dr. Patrick J. Le Pivert, Dr. Gary Onik, Dr. Nikolai N. Korpan, Amir Arav, PhD (from left)
Return to Miami on January 7th, 2013
...and back in Vienna on January 8th, 2013