Program

NEPHROLOGY NURSE & TECHNICIAN TRACK

Kidney Transplantation: "From Beginning to End"

Tuesday, April 2, 7:30am - 4:30pm
Director: Heidi Schaefer, MD, FNKF
Session 220, 7.0 credits

Target Audience:
Designed for community nephrologists, transplant nephrologists, nephrology fellows, transplant coordinators, transplant pharmacists and other professionals involved in the care of the kidney transplant patient.

Course Description:
This course is designed to offer the attendee a comprehensive understanding of medical and surgical issues that affect the kidney transplant recipient. Issues spanning the course of transplantation from “beginning to end” will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Describe current allocation and wait-listing strategies
Explain criteria for selection of deceased donors and describe common early post-operative complications.
Be familiar with current and upcoming immunosuppressive regimens.
Discuss common medical complications in the kidney transplant recipient and describe appropriate treatment strategies.
Engage in discussions regarding ethical issues in transplantation.

Course Agenda
Time	Topic	Faculty
7:30am – 8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am – 8:30am	Kidney Allocation and Waitlisting	Dorry Segev, MD
8:30am – 9:00am	Selection of Deceased Donor Kidneys and the Role of ECD/DCD Donors	Sayeed Khan Malek, MD
9:00am – 9:30am	Early Post-Operative Complications	Yolanda Becker, MD
9:30am – 9:45am	Question and Answer Session
9:45am – 10:00am	Break
10:00am – 10:30am	Essential Immunology for the Nephrologist	Roslyn Mannon, MD
10:30am – 11:00am	Update on Immunosuppression	Matthew Everly, MD
11:00am – 11:30am	New Treatments for AMR	Darshana Dadhania, MD
11:30am – 11:45am	Question and Answer Session
11:45am – 12:45pm	Lunch
12:45pm – 1:15pm	Recurrent Disease in the Transplant	Tom Gonwa, MD
1:15pm – 1:45pm	BK Virus Nephropathy	Simin Goral, MD
1:45pm – 2:15pm	How to Manage the Retransplant Patient	TBD
2:15pm – 2:30pm	Question and Answer Session
2:30pm – 2:45pm	Break
2:45pm – 3:15pm	Long-Term Care of the Kidney Transplant Recipient	Heidi Schaefer, MD, FNKF
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Pregnancy Outcomes in Transplant	Rebecca Rojas, MD
3:4pm – 4:15pm	Ethical Issues in Transplantation: Case-Based Discussion	Didier Mandelbrot, MD
4:15pm – 4:30pm	Question and Answer Session

Required: Separate registration fee of $200 ($250 when registration for the course only). Includes breakfast, boxed lunch, course syllabus, and CME/CE credit.

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