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The AST Research Network (previously known as TIRN) is now part of the AST website. This new section of the website will allow you to search for research grants, view past recipients, and learn about partnership opportunities.
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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/.
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The AST is developing a Community of Practice Executive Committee Toolkit to assist COP leaders, and COP members interested in COP leadership. The COP Executive Committee Toolkit will provide you with tools to run effective meetings, handle COP projects, and better understand your duties as a leader within AST.
The COP Policies and Procedures page is the first section to go live, and contains core AST Policy and Procedure references, along with important guidance materials. This section will be updated as relevant changes are made by the AST Board of Directors and the AST Executive Staff.
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We encourage proposals that explore new advancements within the field of transplantation. Incomplete proposals will not be considered, and no extensions will be granted after the June 27, 2018 deadline. All proposals must be submitted online. Paper or email proposals will not be considered.
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Antimicrobial stewardship has been advocated for health systems as a means to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are coordinated interventions to improve and measure appropriate use of antimicrobials by promoting the selection of the optimal regimen including the specific antimicrobial, dosing, timeliness of administration, duration of therapy, and route of administration.
We would like to invite you to participate in a survey regarding the perceptions of transplant clinicians towards ASPs.
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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. Learn more.
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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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AST/AJT Journal Club
"Mood, Body Image, Fear of Kidney Failure, Life Satisfaction, and Decisional Stability Following Living Kidney Donation: Findings from the KDOC Study"
August 7, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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Improving Rigor and Reproducibility in Animal Models
After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:
- Describe current concerns in biomedical research about the reliability of pre-clinical studies using small animal models.
- Convey the potential impact of publication bias in pre-clinical research.
- Illustrate the use of multi-center pre-clinical studies.
- Suggest guidelines about conducting pre-clinical research.
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FDA
On September 27-28 2018, the FDA Division of Transplant and Ophthalmology Products (DTOP) is hosting a two-day public workshop at the White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, MD entitled, Evidence-Based Treatment Decisions in Transplantation – The Right Dose for the Right Patient: Individualized Treatment. This collaborative workshop will be hosted in partnership with the Transplant Therapeutics Consortium and registration information will be announced ahead of the meeting through the Federal Register. To receive more information when it becomes available, click here.
Transplant International
As the median age of deceased kidney donors rises, updated knowledge of transplant outcomes from older deceased donors in differing donor–recipient age groups is required. Using ERA‐EDTA Registry data we determined survival outcomes of kidney allografts donated from the same older deceased donor (55–70 years), and transplanted into one recipient younger and one recipient of similar age to the donor.
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Current Infectious Disease Reports
Post-transplant infections present a formidable challenge to the physician due to their varied presentation. Many of these infections begin by inoculation following skin compromise or disseminate to the skin hematogenously, making cutaneous manifestations of infection an important diagnostic clue in the immunocompromised. Quality research in this field is lacking, and this articles seeks to review the literature and present a guide to physicians in order for them to suspect certain infections by their cutaneous presentation.
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Journal of Psychosomatic Research
This study evaluated the impact of psychiatric comorbidities in liver transplant (LT) recipients aged greater than or equal to 65 years (elderly) on length of hospital-stay (LOS), death, and a composite outcome of graft loss or death. This retrospective study assessed impact of psychiatric comorbidities in 122 elderly LT recipients and a matched group of 122 LT recipients aged less than 65 years (younger). Associations were assessed using adjusted multivariable regression models.
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Current Infectious Disease Reports
Since the advent of safe and highly effective DAA therapy, HCV infection is now curable in virtually all cases, including organ transplant recipients. Excellent drug tolerability and safety combined with high cure rates across all organ groups means that HCV is no longer a barrier to transplantation or its outcomes.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Kidneys from deceased donors who are hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleic acid test positive are infrequently used for transplantation in HCV‐negative patients due to concerns about disease transmission. With the development of direct‐acting antivirals (DAAs) for HCV, there is now potential to use these kidneys in HCV‐negative candidates. However, the high cost of DAAs poses a challenge to adoption of this strategy.
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