Speakers:
- Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD • Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD • H. Leon Pachter, MD Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Moderator:
- Vineeta Kumar, MD, FAST, FASN • Professor of Medicine, Robert C. Bourge and Cutessa D. Bourge Endowed Professor in Transplant Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
Discussants:
- Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD, FAST • Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Nicole Ali, MD • Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Expected Objectives:
- Review lessons learned from pig-to-human kidney transplant cases
- Discuss engineering of pigs for human organ transplantation
- Compare and contrast how pig versus human kidneys perform in a human recipient
- Examine risks and complications in recipients of pig kidneys
This topic was developed by the AST Education Committee for the 2024-2025 T3 webinar series with the support of AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP). Learn more about AST's COPs at www.myast.org/cops.
Timely Topics in Transplantation (T3) webinars are $25.00 but free for AST members! To learn more about upcoming T3 webinars and view past T3 archives, visit the T3 webinar series page on the myAST website.