Meetings and Courses

The group has held meetings in different European cities in most years since 1987. LICAGE has participated in a joint congress with the ILTS and ELITA (the European Liver and Intestinal Transplant Association), approximately every third year. Collaborations with other organisations have also been successful. These include the European Association for Study of the Liver (EASL), the International Anaesthesia Research Society, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and national centres in India and South America.

We have also run very popular courses on Anaesthesia and Critical Care for Liver Transplantation in Newcastle (2005), Caen (2007) and Vienna (2009), freestanding or integrated with a scientific meeting featuring abstracts. They are intended to be comprehensive introductions for novice liver transplant anaesthesiologists, as well as refresher courses for those with more experience.

Recent Annual Congresses:

2005      Newcastle, UK
2006      Milan, Italy
2007      Caen, France
2008      Paris, France
2009      Vienna, Austria
2010      Pisa, Italy
2011      Valencia, Spain
2012      Ghent, Belgium
2013      Essen, Germany
2014      London, UK
2015      Montpellier, France
2016      Bucharest - Romania

Planned Congresses:

2018      Edinburgh - UK

Note that declining industry support for educational meetings has made smaller specialist meetings more difficult to fund. Clinicians remain reluctant to pay the full cost of these activities, since this would more require a two-to-three-fold increase in the typical registration fee. Under the leadership of Secretary/Treasurer Claus-Georg Krenn we are building alternative sources of support, and subscription or sponsorship fees for website resources may help fund meetings in future.