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The Alliance Conversation Series
Organ Transportation Logistical Challenges
Presented On:December 1, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm• EST

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: Donated organs that require long-distance transport should arrive at the precise time and be just as viable as those donated locally. There is little room for error when transporting organs. However, with the increasing shortage of ground transportation, aircraft, staffing, and the growth and utilization of perfusion devices, transplant centers and organ procurement organizations (OPOS) are struggling to manage the matching and transport of vital organs to prevent delays, organ loses and the rising costs of transportation.

In this discussion session, our panelists will share their experiences with logistical challenges, mitigating rising transport costs and financial implications, and perfusion device transportation hurdles.

By sharing experiences and possible solutions, we aim to assist in developing practices to alleviate the more persistent struggles.

  • Appraise the current state of organ transport logistics, including regional and local transportation prerequisites.
  • Determine opportunities and solutions to aircraft and ground transportation hurdles.
  • Interpret the economics of transportation costs and devise potential solutions to mitigating rising costs.
  • Evaluate transportation requirements for perfusion devices for proactive preparation.
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Board, Speaker
Paul Myoung
MHA, FACHE
Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Adult Services
UCSF Medical Center
Lori Markham 2022
National Pediatric Summit Planning Committee, Speaker
Lori Markham
MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CPTC
Vice President/ Chief Clinical Officer
Midwest Transplant Network
Kevin Clark
Speaker
Kevin Clark
Executive Director
Piedmont Transplant Institute
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Speaker
Valerie Chipman
Director of Allocation and Operation
Donor Network West
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Conversation Series Workgroup, Moderator, National Transplant Leadership Council, Speaker
Megan Bell
RN, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CCTC
Associate Director, Organ Transplant
Cedars Sinai
Kevin Lee
2024 NCIF-Optimizing Performance Planning Committee, 2026 NCF Speaker, Moderator, National Critical Issues Forum Planning Committee, Speaker
Kevin Lee
President & CEO
Mid-America Transplant

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.

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Continuing Education Credits

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

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