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The Alliance Conversation Series
Expanding Kidney Transplantation – The Need to Improve Organ Utilization

Presented on: Thursday, November 10, 2022

The Alliance Conversation Series brings you cost-free, fast-paced collaborative opportunities that highlight successful donation and transplantation practices across the country. Through shared insight, multidisciplinary experts identify solutions to critical challenges affecting the community of practice and actively share them for open discussion and broader knowledge of effective practices.

The Alliance is not an advocacy organization and always intends to maintain an objective and unbiased perspective.

Sessions are designed to be approximately 30-45 minutes in length and encourage real-time feedback and participation from viewers.

Overview: Kidney transplantation is the ideal treatment for patients with end stage kidney disease. Deceased donor kidneys are a scarce and valuable resource that we have to use optimally in order to benefit the maximum number of patients possible. We will discuss the challenge of kidney discards, the evaluation of kidneys during the allocation process and the opportunities that exist to lower the discard rate.

  • Recognize the benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation.
  • Understand the challenge of deceased donor kidney discard.
  • Recognize the challenges of accurate assessment of organ quality during the allocation process.
  • Understand how variations in organ acceptance patterns contribute to organ discards.
Sumit Mohan
Board, Speaker
Sumit Mohan
MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
Columbia University

Transplant Center Professionals, Organ Procurement Organization Professionals, Quality Improvement Professionals and Leadership, OPO and Transplant Center Leadership, Directors, Managers, Clinicians, Front-line staff and Individuals interested in improving relationships between OPO and Transplant programs

Continuing Education Credits

Continuing Education credits are no longer available for this learning opportunity.

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