Eliot Heher MD is a transplant nephrologist and the former Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital. As Medical Director Eliot led a massive effort to improve kidney transplant workflow that resulted in a tripling of the size of the Mass General waiting list and a doubling in the number of kidney transplants performed. In 2020 he founded Square Knot Health, which deploys patient navigators, telehealth, and other technologies to improve outcomes in people with chronic kidney disease and to increase access to kidney transplantation.
Improving Access to Kidney Transplantation: An Innovative Approach to Tackling Waitlist Readiness
With an influx of patients on the waitlist with increasingly long wait times, how are transplant centers managing their waitlist to ensure that an offer is never bypassed, and their patients are ultimately transplanted? During this webinar, we will be joined by Dr. Heher of Square Knot Health who will discuss his partnership with providers to facilitate care coordination and education for transplant patients with a focus on identifying the safest and most effective treatment options for their kidney disease.