Course Description
Living donor transplantation is a key part of restoring health in patients with severe kidney or liver disease or end-stage organ failure. Nurses, clinicians, clergy and social workers play a pivotal role in communicating the living donor option to patients, families, friends and other potential living donors. They typically face a myriad of questions regarding cost, psychosocial issues, ethical issues, long-term donor health, paired donation, transplant outcomes, and the role of the media.
The purpose of the Donor Advocate Symposium is to:
- Update, educate and inform registered nurses, transplant nurse coordinators, social workers, donor advocates, clergy and other professionals who work with transplant candidates.
- Enhance and improve clinical behavior to increase participation in the living donor process.
Speakers and panelists will present real life cases and initiate conversations with the audience about the issues.
Scientific Program
Agenda
Friday, November 09, 2018
Target Audience
Nurses
Dialysis Center Care Teams
Social Workers
Clergy
Physicians
Ethicists
Anyone with an interest in living donor transplantation
Accreditation & Credit Designation
NURSES: FACET Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6.0 Contact Hours.
SOCIAL WORKERS: This activity has been submitted to the National Association of Social Workers for continuing education credit.
TRANSPLANT: Category I Continuing Education Points for Transplant Certification (CEPTCs) has been applied for through the American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC).
Course Director
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS
- Chief, Abdominal Transplant
- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
- Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
Faculty
Enrico Benedetti, MD, FACS
- Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery - Professor and Head
- Medical Director, Abdominal Organ Transplant Program
- Department of Surgery
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Kathy Brown, BSN, RN, CCTC
- Program Manager Abdominal Transplant
- Manager Abdominal Transplant Clinic
- Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute
- Baylor University Medical Center - Dallas, Texas
Heather Hunt, JD
- Living Liver Donor
- OPTN Board of Directors
- Immediate past Chair, OPTN Living Donor Committee
Daniela J. Lamas, MD
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Instructor in Medicine
- Harvard Medical School - Boston MA
Michael A. Rees, MD, PHD
- Professor - The University of Toledo Health Science Campus
- Departments of Urology and Pathology
- Department of Urology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
Anji Wall, MD, PhD, FACS
- Abdominal Transplant Surgeon
- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX