Dr. Caicedo is Director, Liver Transplant Program, Living Donor Liver Program and Hispanic Transplant Program at Northwestern Medicine. He is an adult and pediatric transplant surgeon who is actively involved in the adult kidney and liver transplant programs, including the living donor program for both kidney and liver. Dr. Caicedo is also involved in hepatobiliary surgery and advanced laparoscopic procedures. Dr. Caicedo’s primary goal has been to increase living kidney and liver donation and transplantation for Hispanic patients using a culturally competent and congruent approach that has been very successful. Dr. Caicedo has been a Co-Principal Investigator on a NIH funded grant to disseminate and implement his Hispanic Transplant Program. He receives calls from transplant centers around the world wanting his advice on how to replicate the model in their own institutions.
Improving Disparities and Access to Transplant Care in The Hispanic Community
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.
Overview: Improving access to transplant care is a challenge in many health care organizations serving historically marginalized populations. The donation and transplant communities are faced with barriers such as health literacy, culture, and language.
To motivate the implementation of culturally sensitive programs for minorities is the focus of today’s discussion, emphasizing the experience and successes of the Hispanic Transplant Program at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Are these successes translated to other marginalized groups? We are looking forward to a robust exchange of ideas.