In this podcast, Dr. Patricia Campbell, Director of the HLA Laboratory at the University of Edmonton, discusses with Dr. Elaine Reed, Director of the Immunogenetics Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, the applications of the virtual crossmatch to living and deceased solid organ transplantation, paired kidney exchange and desensitization. .

In this podcast, Dr. Cynthia Gries, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Outcome Research in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center describes the potential benefits and risks of implementing a lung allocation system based on a broader geographical sharing of organs.

In this podcast, Dr. Jagbir Gill, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at the University of British Columbia discusses issues related to kidney transplantation and post-transplant immunosuppressive management in the elderly patient with end stage renal disease.

In this podcast, Dr. Randall Sung, Associate Professor of Surgery and Surgical Director of the Kidney and Kidney Pancreas Transplant Program at the University of Michigan Medical School, discusses transplant outcomes of organs procured from donors after cardiac death. Dr. Sung discusses the details involved in the definition of donation after cardiac death, donor management and transplant outcomes as well as ethical issues associated with this modality. This podcast also provides practical, up-to-date information and advice to physicians who may have questions about the advantages and disadvantages of transplantation of organs from donors after cardiac death, and would like to counsel their transplant candidates about accepting organs procured from these donors.