Novel Approaches to the Assessment of Frailty
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
After participating in this webinar, the attendee will be able to:
- Educate the transplant community on the current understanding of frailty both pre and post solid organ transplantation.
- Establish a standardized approach for the identification and treatment of frailty both pre- and post-transplantation, including:
A) Establishing a common nomenclature for frailty within solid organ transplantation
B) Establishing recommendations for the assessment of frailty in solid organ transplant candidates
C) Establishing guidelines for including a frailty assessment in candidate selection
Speakers:
- Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA • Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Mara McAdams DeMarco, PhD • Associate Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- Evan Kransdorf, MD, PhD • Assistant Director, Heart Transplant Research and Education, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator:
- Lianne Singer, MD, FRCPC • Professor of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
AST would like to thank the Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP) for recommending "Frailty" as a topic for the 2020-2021 T3 series. Learn more about AST's COPs at www.myast.org/cops.
Series category:
T3: Timely Topics in Transplantion
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