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Impaired humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients and dialysis patients

Join us live on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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The Respiratory Microbiome After Lung Transplantation: Reflection or Driver of Respiratory Disease?

Join us live on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted jointly by AST's Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP) and Thoracic and Critical Care Community of Pr

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Recipient sex and estradiol levels affect transplant outcomes in an age-specific fashion

Recorded live on Friday, August 6, 2021 • Hosted jointly by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS) and Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP)

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Large single center results of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation in patients with type 2 diabetes

Recorded live on Thursday, June 24, 2021 • Hosted by AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)

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Transitional B cell cytokines predict renal allograft outcomes

Recorded live on Thursday, May 27, 2021 • Hosted by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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Consensus Conference on Heart-Kidney

Recorded live on Thursday, May 20, 2021 • Hosted by AST's Thoracic and Critical Care Community of Practice (TCC COP)

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The kidney evaluation of living kidney donor candidates: US practices in 2017

Recorded live on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 • Hosted by the AST's Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP)

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Mixed Chimerism and Acceptance of Kidney Transplants after Immunosuppressive Drug Withdrawal

Recorded live on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by the Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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Association of Antiviral Prophylaxis and Rituximab Use with Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD): A Nationwide Cohort Study

Recorded live on Tuesday, March 9, 2020, from 11:00 AM ET to 12:00 PM ET • Hosted by the AST Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP)

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Vascularized composite allotransplantation in the United States: A retrospective analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data after 5 years of the Final Rule

Recorded live on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by the AST’s Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Advisory Council (VCA AC)

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Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human regulatory T cells

Recorded live on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by the AST Community of Transplant Scientists

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Evaluating multiple living kidney donor candidates simultaneously is more cost-effective than sequentially

Recorded live on Monday, November 2, 2020, from 4:00 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET • Hosted by the AST Live Donor Community of Practice

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"Three-year outcomes from the CRADLE study in de novo pediatric kidney transplant recipients receiving everolimus with reduced tacrolimus and early steroid withdrawal"

Recorded live on Thursday, October 1, 2020 • Hosted jointly by the TxPharm & Pediatric Communities of Practice

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"Effects of mTOR inhibitor–related proteinuria on progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy and outcomes among heart transplant recipients"

Recorded live on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted jointly by the TCC & TxPharm Communities of Practice

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"Cytomegalovirus serologic matching in deceased donor kidney allocation optimizes high‐ and low‐risk (D+R− and D−R−) profiles and does not adversely affect transplant rates"

Recorded live on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 • Hosted by the Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP)

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"New French heart allocation system: comparison with Eurotransplant and United States allocation systems"

Recorded live on Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 • Hosted by the Thoracic and Critical Care Community of Practice (TCC COP)

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"Signaling Through the Inhibitory Fc Receptor FcγRIIB Induces CD8+ T Cell Apoptosis to Limit T Cell Immunity"

Recorded live on Tuesday, May 19th, 2020, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by the Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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"The survival advantage of pancreas after kidney transplant"

Recorded live on Monday, May 4th, 2020 • Hosted by the Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)

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Announcement of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award

August 10, 2021

June 30, 2021, marked the passing of one of our leaders who made extraordinary contributions to the field of transplantation, Dr. Barbara T. Murphy. In recognition of her contributions to the...

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ESRD Treatment Choice Learning Collaborative (ETCLC)

October 14, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) announced that the...

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Heather Bruschwein, PsyD

Specialty: Transplant Psychology

Graduated from: George Fox University (PsyD), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Health...

Current position: Clinical Psychologist; Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral...

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Transplant Immunology

This book covers the basic functionality of the immune system, the latest developments in immunosupressive drugs and protocols, and emerging technologies in the field.

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