HealthLine Webinar: CORONAVIRUS & TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

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CORONAVIRUS & TRANSPLANT PATIENTS:

GET THE FACTS, SAVE A LIFE

An AAKP Hosted Webinar in Partnership with American Society of Transplantation & American Society of Transplant Surgeons

April 10, 2020 - 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST

Limited to the first 2,500 registrants!

Join us and learn important information regarding the impact of COVID-19 on kidney transplant recipients and individuals waiting for a kidney transplantation.

Find out what questions, you as the patient, should be raising to your care team.

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Webinar Speakers:

Emily Blumberg, MD

Dr. Blumberg is the President of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) . She is a Transplant Infectious Diseases Specialist and the Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program and the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, positions she has held since 1999 and 2005 respectively. Dr. Blumberg’s academic interests are focused on infectious disease complications in transplant recipients and candidates. She is especially interested in donor derived infections and viral infections, including HIV and CMV.

Lloyd Ratner, MD, MPH, FACS

Dr. Ratner is the President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) . He is Professor of Surgery and Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation at Columbia University. Access to organ transplantation has been Dr. Ratner’s major academic interest. Dr. Ratner has been a leading innovator in transplantation for over two decades. In 1993, he performed the world’s first dual renal transplant. In 1995 (with Dr. Louis Kavoussi) he performed the first laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, and set the stage for its widespread adoption, which resulted in a profound increase in living donor kidney transplantation. Dr. Ratner has made significant contributions in overcoming immunologic incompatibilities that prohibited transplantation.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar. Please note, it is possible that the information shared on this webinar will be updated, contradicted in the coming weeks, or that gaps of knowledge today will soon be filled as the healthcare community continues to study the virus.

Registration limited to the first 2,500.

The webinar will be recorded and made available.