TAD

Talks

“TAD” (Transplantation and Donation) Talks feature national experts from across the continuum who share critical ideas worth sharing in our ever-changing healthcare environment.

Recorded at The Alliance National Pediatric Donation and Transplantation Summit, May 24-25, 2023 in Houston. 

The Gift of Presence: Enhancing the Family Experience to Impact Pediatric Authorization Rates

Pediatric patients are dying due to the organ shortage. We have an opportunity to change the narrative. Working together, we can all enhance the family experience during end-of-life conversations and ultimately impact a family’s decision to authorize for donation.

Schawnté Williams-Taylor, Vice President of Family Engagement and Donation Services for LifeGift, explains how to leverage the gift of presence.

Recorded at The Alliance National Pediatric Donation and Transplantation Summit, May 24-25, 2023 in Houston. 

From Success to Significance

Join Demia Kandi, an experienced leader and consultant in diversity, equity and inclusion-based initiatives, and discover how we can walk families through medical crises with empathy, respect and cultural humility.

Recorded at The Alliance National Pediatric Donation and Transplantation Summit, May 24-25, 2023 in Houston. 

Four Weeks to Rebuild

How did Children’s Mercy reactivate a paused transplant program in just a month, creating a nationally-known program with stellar outcomes? Dr. Bhagarva Mullapudi shares his process-improvement approach and the key questions he considered to generate excellence.

Recorded at The Alliance National Pediatric Donation and Transplantation Summit, May 24-25, 2023 in Houston. 

Bringing Real-Time Data Insights to Transplantation: A Ready Frontier for Precision Medicine

Join Dr. Rowland Pettit to explore the transformative impact of AI to enhance clinical processes and outcomes in solid organ transplantation. With the rapid maturation of artificial intelligence (AI), exciting possibilities exist in 2023 for AI-guided decision-making and real-time data synthesis.

Recorded at The Alliance National Critical Issues Forum, September 15-16, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit 2022 National Critical Issues Forum

Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset: Embracing Uncertainty with Certainty

We will solve the organ shortage problem in our lifetime. What happens then? How will our current system meet the shifting economics of organ supply and demand? We cannot predict the future, but we can position ourselves toward a different trajectory by adopting a mindset that detaches from fixed knowns to anticipate new unknowns. It all begins with our perspective.

Paul Myoung, Senior Administrative Director for Massachusetts General Hospital discusses our most precious resource and rebooting to a beginner’s mindset.

Recorded at The Alliance National Critical Issues Forum, September 15-16, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit 2022 National Critical Issues Forum

What If We Had Too Many Organs? Actually, We Do!

The transplant community has built its policies and practices on the premise that there are not enough organs. The truth is more nuanced. We have an abundance of BTD (better than dialysis) organs — particularly kidneys — going unused. This breaks our implied promise to donor families — to honor their loved ones. We can do better.

Kevin Cmunt, Former Chief Executive Officer – Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, IL offers some suggestions.

Recorded at The Alliance National Critical Issues Forum, September 15-16, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit 2022 National Critical Issues Forum

The Transformative Power of Liver Perfusion Devices

Medical innovations are often criticized as providing incremental benefit in exchange for astronomical cost. However, occasionally an innovation comes along that completely transforms a field for the better. Liver perfusion devices need to be given the chance to prove if they indeed are this generation’s transformative change agent in transplantation.

This TAD Talk was presented by Mark Hobeika, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery – Houston Methodist Hospital, TX

Recorded at The Alliance National Critical Issues Forum, September 15-16, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit 2022 National Critical Issues Forum

The Case for Organ Data Transparency

We need to shine the light on perfusion device data to make the switch from a donor-centric to an organ-centric national system. If we work together now, we can reduce the wait list to zero in the future. If we don’t, we’ll have a system that hinders accessibility to game-changing innovations for the majority of patients.

The TAD Talk was presented by Dalton Shaull, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, OmniLife

Recorded at The Alliance National Critical Issues Forum, September 15-16, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit 2022 National Critical Issues Forum

The Power of Engaging People to Manage Disruption

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Power of Engaging People to Manage Disruption Building on your culture of collaboration, performance improvement expert Rocky Ephraim will inspire you to approach your business from the cultural lens of inclusivity. Why the “successes” of yesterday is old news and why engagement of multiple perspectives is the solution.

This TAD Talk was presented by Yerachmiel “Rocky” Ephraim, MBA Master Black Belt – The Joint Commission, IL

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