Communities of Practice
Transplant Diagnostic Community of Practice (TxDx COP)
Staff Liaison: Brian Valeria (bvaleria@myAST.org)
Chair: Peter Jindra (2018)
Co-Chair: Annette Jackson (2018)
Past Chair: Parmjeet Randhawa (2018)
Board Liaison: Richard Formica (2018)
Laurine Bow (2018)
Sacha DeSerres (2018)
Benjamin Adam (2019)
John Schmitz (2019)
Trainee: Kristina Davis (2018)
2017-2018 Initiatives
- Award three travel grants to members who present cutting edge consultation cases at the business meeting
- Submit program proposals for ATC 2018
- Have a Journal Club presentation for the AST community
- Host a planned webinar on Matching HLA epitopes
- Discuss progress towards stated COP mission at Executive Committee conference call
- Poll the COP for the optimal date and time for a journal club.
- Expand reference library on solid organ transplant pathology to include heart and liver transplantation
- Nominate members for any open Councilor positions
- Document meetups for members of the COP at meetings in addition to ATC centered around the poster sessions
- Post blogs and discussion items on the Hub and encourage other members to do so
- Electronically publish a newsletter quarterly
- Attend all required Board meetings
- Have an AST event and meeting at the posters, so members of the COP will be able to meet and collaborate