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AST
The AST just launched the Live Donor Toolkits. This resource was created by the AST's Live Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP) with the help of several other organizations. There are two versions of the toolkit – a version for medical professionals as well as a version for patients and the general transplant community.
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Last Chance! AST Membership Grants from PCOP
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.
COP Travel Grants and Executive Committee Trainee Selection
Thank you to all applicants of the COP Travel Grants and Executive Committee Trainee Selection. The selection process is currently in full swing.
Coming Soon: COP Elections
The ballots to vote for the 2018-2019 COP EC nominees are now open. Check your email for information on how to vote.
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.
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AST
Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is a great way to expand your transplant knowledge. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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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.
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.
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HRSA
It’s not too late to participate in the 2018 Hospital Campaign. Hospitals can earn points for each scorecard activity completed and each new donor registration recorded between October 1, 2017 and April 30, 2018. At the end of the campaign, hospitals can earn platinum, gold, silver, or bronze recognition from HHS’s Division of Transplantation and the campaign’s national partners. Download the 2018 Campaign Scorecard. Completed scorecards are due to wpfl@akoyaonline.com by May 11.
ABIM
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is sharing some good news that effective immediately, program directors are able to receive 20 Maintenance of Certification points in Practice Assessment for the quality improvement (QI) work they undertake in their roles as GME educators. Additionally, faculty who are involved in meaningful GME-related QI activities in your program can also receive 20 MOC points, with your annual attestation.
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Dental Lifeline Network
The Donated Dental Services (DDS) program is a national, but limited, humanitarian resource to which patients can be referred who require unaffordable, uncovered, yet medically essential dental therapies. For patient information related to dental health and transplantation, click here.
Dental Lifeline Network (DLN) is a non-profit organization affiliated with the American Dental Association. Donated Dental Services (DDS) is a DLN initiative that focuses on providing comprehensive pro bono dental therapies for individuals who are functionally and financially constrained by medical challenges, physical or mental disabilities, or aging-related limitations. Priority is extended to transplant patients and others requiring medically essential dental care. For more information, click here.
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.
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. This survey will also be open until April 20, 2018.
Liver Transplantation
Liver transplantation (LT) is a successful treatment for both acute liver failure and end‐stage liver disease. The number of women of reproductive age undergoing LT is increasing. Pregnancy outcomes are favourable but there is still a lack of prognostic markers. We aimed to identify factors predictive of adverse pregnancy outcomes in LT recipients.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Blood group B candidates, many of whom represent ethnic minorities, have historically had diminished access to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). The new national kidney allocation system (KAS) preferentially allocates blood group A2/A2B deceased donor kidneys to B recipients to address this ethnic and blood group disparity. No study has yet examined the impact of KAS on A2 incompatible (A2i) DDKT for blood group B recipients overall or among minorities.
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Transplantation
Alcoholic liver disease is a common indication for liver transplantation (OLT). Although OLT has been shown to confer survival benefit to patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH), historically most programs require a 6-month abstinence period prior to OLT which excludes patients with AAH. Marijuana has become legal in more than half the states in the United States. This survey of liver transplant programs was conducted to evaluate current policies regarding alcohol, marijuana and methadone use.
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Transplantation
The aim of this study was to determine the impact of converting from tacrolimus to belatacept in patients with stable low estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) early after kidney transplant. This is a single-center retrospective case control study. During this study period, we had a clinical protocol to convert patients to belatacept if they had a stable but low GFR and they were at least 1-month post-transplant.
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Transplantat Infectious Disease
Vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) infections are common in liver transplant recipients (LTRs). Daptomycin (DAP) is an important treatment for such infections; however, DAP‐nonsusceptible VRE (DNS‐VRE) are increasingly frequent. The purpose of this study was to compare clinical characteristics and outcomes of LTRs with infections due to DNS‐VRE and DAP‐susceptible VRE (DS‐VRE).
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