Dr. Charles Strom is a board certified transplant surgeon serving as Surgical Director of New England Donor Services. He attended Colby College and earned his MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency in General Surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and then pursued fellowship training in Abdominal Organ Transplant at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was recognized as the top teaching fellow in the Partners HealthCare system. Following fellowship, he went into practice at Tufts Medical Center as an Attending Surgeon in the Division of Kidney Transplant Surgery, and became Associate Director of the General Surgery Clerkship at Tufts Medical School. He was recruited to New England Donor Services in late 2019 to take on the newly-created role of Surgical Director, focusing on optimizing the surgical practice and increasing efficiencies in deceased donor organ procurement.
Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is an innovative approach to maintaining organ viability following the determination of circulatory death (DCD). The comprehensive and collaborative approach required to facilitate an NRP recovery has increased organ utilization while reducing waitlist deaths. In this session, we will be joined by leaders in the community who will share their respective journeys to NRP implementation in partnership with their local OPO or receiving Transplant Center(s). Methods on how to engage key stakeholders will be shared along with examples of how to overcome potential barriers, resulting in more lives saved through this increasingly prevalent method of procurement.