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Have you booked your housing for CEoT 2018? The deadline to receive discounted housing is January 5, 2018.
This meeting has been held at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Our special room block has been sold out the last two years and we are on the track to sell out this year. Book your room today.
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Visit the AST Member Spotlight page to learn how Dr. Stephan Weinland has spent the last year.
Interested in being featured in the AST Member Spotlight? Please contact rpaulin@myast.org for more information.
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Check out AST's archived webinars and journal clubs, and watch educational content when it's convenient for you. The AST also offers a variety of resources for different transplant specialties, all available on our easy-to-search website.
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January 18, 2017 2 p.m. Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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Transplant professionals have increasing demands on their time. Finding time in one’s day to attend conferences or to read journals is challenging. Transplant in 10 is intended to provide transplant professionals with short, easily accessible videos on key and updated topics in 10 minutes.
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Sanofi Genzyme provides benefits to patients by:
• Partnering with the community to increase access to transplant for appropriate patients
• Supporting patient advocacy and education
• Organ donation awareness initiatives
• Supporting clinicians to improve patient care
We define our success by the success of transplant patients
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The Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is AST's latest addition to its member benefits. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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The Transplant Nephrology Core Curriculum (TNCC) is an online program jointly provided by the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. The TNCC focuses on key information needed to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification examinations.
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"Regulatory T Cell Migration Is Dependent on Glucokinase-Mediated Glycolysis"
February 27, 2017 | 11 a.m. ET | Online activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
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AST President, Ron Gill, was recently featured in Media Planet with his article entitled “One Transplant for Life” – be sure to check it out.
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American Journal of Transplantation
This month's installment of “The AJT Report” focuses on the recent launch of the Human Cell Atlas, a data-organizing project to help better understand the cells that comprise the human body. We also present a progress report on the United Network for Organ Sharing Innovation and Improvement Network Project, which recently entered its second phase.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Liver transplant (LT) candidates today are older, have greater medical severity of illness, and have more cardiovascular comorbidities than ever before. In addition, there are specific cardiovascular responses in cirrhosis that can be detrimental to the LT candidate. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, a condition characterized by increased cardiac output and a reduced ventricular response to stress, is present in up to 30 percent of patients with cirrhosis, thus challenging perioperative management.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting and scientific workshop in September 2016 to obtain perspectives from solid organ transplant recipients, family caregivers, and other patient representatives. The morning sessions focused on the impact- of organ transplantation on patients’ daily lives and the spectrum of activities undertaken to maintain grafts.
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The New York Times
With Manhattan skyscrapers as a backdrop, Roscoe and Sharon Fawcett celebrated their 29th anniversary with a meal of steak, corn and baked potatoes. “She finally got a New York skyline wedding anniversary dinner,” said Mr. Fawcett, a firefighter in Stamford, Conn. “But I’d rather not have had to give it to her that way.”
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Transplantation
The incidence and prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has increased in many developed countries over the last decade, predominantly due to infection with genotype 3 (G3) HEV. Infection with HEV G3 is important in transplant recipients because it can persist in immunosuppressed individuals, leading, if untreated, to the development of chronic hepatitis and significant liver fibrosis.
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