Improving Human Life by Advancing the Field of Transplantation
Timely Topics in Transplantation
The American Society of Transplantation is pleased to present the Timely Topics in Transplantation On Demand Webinar Series available for viewing 24/7.
The T3 series is available free of charge to AST members; simply log in above to view the webinars.
Please read the system requirements before viewing the webinars.
2012-2013 Webinars
Webinars will be released on an ongoing basis throughout 2012.
Registration Fees
Non-members may purchase access to any of the webinar for a fee of $25 each; click on any available webinar below to begin the purchase process.
This series was made possible in part by support from Astellas Pharma U.S., Inc. and One Lambda., Inc.
DSA: New Concerns and New Therapies
Peter Nickerson, MD • University of Manitoba
E. Steve Woodle, MD • University of Cincinnati
Mark Stegall, MD • Mayo Clinic Rochester
This three-part webinar will cover the following topic areas:
- The Natural Course of Antibody-mediated Allograft Injury (Dr. Nickerson)
- Is There a Role for Bortezomib? (Dr. Woodle)
- Terminal Complement Blockade and the Current Status of Desensitization (Dr. Stegall)
Meeting the Challenges of Resistance
Shahid Husain, MD, MS • University Health Network
Shirish Huprikar, MD • Mount Sinai Medical Center
Camille Kotton, MD • Massachusetts General Hospital
This three-part webinar will cover the following topic areas:
- Difficult to treat fungal infections
- Emergence of multi-drug resistant bacterial organisms
- Resistance to CMV
New Strategies in Hepatitis Management after Solid Organ Transplantation
Kevin Korenblat, MD • Washington University School of Medicine
Paul Martin, MD • University of Miami
Jacqueline O'Leary, MD, MPH • Baylor University Medical Center
This three-part webinar will cover the following topic areas:
- Primer on Hepatitis in Solid Organ Transplants
- Hepatitis B Treatment of Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Recipients
- Managing Triple Therapy in Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Recipients
ATC 2012 Highlights: Multi-Organ Transplantation
Vineeta Kumar, MD • University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alastair Smith, MD • Duke University Medical Center
This webcast contains highlights in the area of multi-organ transplantation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.
Learning Objectives
After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:
- Understand current outcomes in multi-organ transplants
- Define the impact of immunosuppression on kidney function in non-renal solid organ transplants
- Describe factors associated with poor renal outcomes in non-renal solid organ transplants
ATC 2012 Highlights: Live Kidney Donor Outcomes and Tools for Practice
Mona Doshi, MD • Wayne State University
Rebecca Hays, MSW, APSW • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
This webcast contains highlights in the area of live kidney donation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.
Learning Objectives
After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:
- Outline the risk of hypertension, diabetes, acute kidney injury requiring dialysis and cardiovascular disease in live kidney donors
- Understand the impact of living donation on the quality of life in elderly donors
- Become familiar with web-based techniques to improve donor screening and recruitment
ATC 2012 Highlights: Thoracic Transplantation
Isabel Neuringer, MD • Massachusetts General Hospital
This webcast contains highlights in the area of thoracic transplantation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.
Learning Objectives
After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:
- Understand how the innate immune system impacts upon lung allograft rejection and current approaches to managing bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after lung transplantation
- Understand emerging pathogens in lung transplantation and novel therapies for prophylaxis and treatment of infectious complications
- Understand techniques for assaying donor-specific antibodies in antibody mediated rejection (AMR) after cardiac transplantation, the clinical spectrum and diagnosis of AMR after cardiac transplantation, and clinical trials using everolimus in cardiac transplantation
ATC 2012 Highlights: Infectious Diseases
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Christin Rogers, PharmD • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
This webcast contains highlights in the area of infectious diseases from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.
Learning Objectives
After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:
- To relate emerging controversies in donor screening including the use of nucleic acid amplification testing.
- To discuss the use of hepatitis B and hepatitis C donor organs.
- To appreciate novel donor-recipient pairing such as the use of HIV positive organs in South Africa.
