This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
| |
AST
As an AST member, access to free or discounted educational resources are included in your membership. These diverse educational resources offer materials relevant to the transplant professional in every stage of their career – from basic trainee lessons to webinars on specialized topics.
AST
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.
READ MORE
AST
AST/AJT Journal Club
"Cell-Free DNA and Active Rejection in Kidney Allografts"
March 28, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
AST
AST's dues renewal grace period ends on April 1st. Memberships that are not paid by then will expire, and lapsed members will lose access to their American Journal of Transplantation and Clinical Transplantation subscriptions, along with access to the COPs and AST educational offerings. In addition, they will not be eligible for significant meeting discounts.
To renew your membership, login to www.myAST.org.
AST
The AST Career Center connects hiring organizations and transplant professionals searching for career opportunities. AST members with openings to fill can post them here. For answers to questions about the Career Center, please visit: https://jobs.myast.org/.
AST
Organ donation has the power to save lives and improve health outcomes, but the growing number of patients awaiting organ transplantation far exceeds the number of organs available.
A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers recommendations to improve organ donor intervention research, a new area of study aimed at increasing the number and enhancing the quality of organs available for transplantation.
READ MORE
OPTN/UNOS
There are fifteen proposals that are open for public comment through March 23, 2018. For information on these proposals, click here.
AST
The Pediatric Community of Practice (PCOP) announced a new program, which will provide a one-year membership to the AST and PCOP. This program is designed to help medical trainees and allied health professionals get more exposure to the field of pediatric transplantation and provide a structure for professional networking within the pediatric transplant community. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2018.
READ MORE
Starzl Transplantation Institute
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is accepting nominations for the 2019 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, awarded annually to a national or international leader in the field of organ transplantation and immunology.
The prize consists of a crystal award, an honorarium of $10,000, and travel expenses to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the spring of 2019 to formally receive the award and to present the Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology lecture. The winner will also participate in related activities and meet informally with faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students.
READ MORE
UNOS
When: April 24-26, 2018
Where: Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin, TX | Rate: $229*
*Be sure to book your room early as they sell out fast for this meeting.
Registration fee: $750 before March 21 | $850 through April 24
Click here to see who’s talking at the 2018 UNOS Transplant Management Forum (TMF).
Learn more about the 26th Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum.
DICG
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Declaration of Istanbul (DoI), a working group of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG) has prepared a draft update to the Declaration. The revisions made in this 2018 Edition are intended to ensure that the DoI remains a valuable source of ethical guidance for health professionals and policy makers during the next decade in the face of persisting and emerging challenges in organ trafficking and transplant tourism around the world. To achieve this goal, they need your help. The DICG is conducting a public consultation that will enable all those with an interest in the DoI to review and submit feedback on the draft. They will then use your collective feedback to make further changes to the document before the final version is presented in July at a special workshop in Madrid, Spain, during the Congress of The Transplantation Society. Anyone may participate in the public consultation and they are eager to obtain feedback from people with different personal, professional, cultural and disciplinary perspectives. They strongly encourage participation by our loyal DICG members and members of professional societies and organizations that have endorsed the DoI.
Participation involves completion of an online survey in which you will be asked to review the draft DoI (2018 Edition) and tell us what you think of this and how it may be improved. For more information, and to participate in the survey, please click here, or use this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DoI_2018_Edition. The survey will be open until April 1st, 2018. The DICG is also seeking feedback on a draft Commentary Paper which will accompany the 2018 Edition of the DoI. After you have provided feedback on the DoI (2018 Edition), they would welcome your feedback on the Commentary Paper via a second survey which is accessible here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DoI_2018_Commentary_Paper. This survey will also be open until April 1, 2018.
American Journal of Transplantation
Plasma cell diseases are a class of hematologic diseases that are sometimes present as pre‐existing diagnoses prior to organ transplantation, causative factors leading to a need for organ transplantation, or may occur post‐transplant as part of the spectrum of post‐transplant lymphoproliferative disorders.
READ MORE
American Journal of Transplantation
Preliminary evidence suggests that postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is common after lung transplantation. The impact of POCD on clinical outcomes has yet to be studied. The association between POCD and longer‐term survival was therefore examined in a pilot study of posttransplantation survivors.
READ MORE
AASLD
A subset of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) beyond Milan criteria might obtain acceptable survival outcomes after liver transplantation. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has emerged as a feasible alternative to overcome the paucity of donors.
READ MORE
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is under-utilized. CR is indicated after heart transplantation, but there are no data regarding CR participation in transplant recipients. We characterized current CR utilization among heart transplant recipients in the United States and the association of CR with 1-year readmissions using the 2013–2014 Medicare files.
READ MORE
Transplantation
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network has implemented medical criteria to determine which candidates are most appropriate for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplantation in comparison to liver-alone transplantation. We investigated prepolicy center-level variation among SLK listing practice, in light of such criteria.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
