Kidney Week

Special Session

Kidney Transplantation in 2024: Change Isn't Coming, It's Here, Including the Christopher R. Blagg, MD, Endowed Lectureship in Kidney Diseases and Public Policy

October 24, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Location: Room 24, Convention Center

Session Description

This session explores the pivotal - and controversial - changes that are reshaping the way we understand access to the kidney wait-list, measure success in organ procurement, balance seemingly competing objectives in organ allocation, and innovate how we deliver care to optimize access to kidney transplantation. With major policy changes touching each of these crucial components of the kidney transplant ecosystem underway, this session helps general and transplant nephrology professionals appreciate what these changes mean for their patients' odds of accessing the wait-list and receiving a kidney transplant in 2024 and beyond.

ASN gratefully acknowledges the Northwest Kidney Centers and its contributors for support of the Blagg Lectureship.

Learning Objective(s)

• Describe how coming data collection efforts may increase transparency and access to kidney transplant
• Explain the effects of evolving organ procurement metrics on patient access
• Compare the pros and cons of approaches being considered to increase organ use in utility, transparency, equity, and patient access
• Discuss how past, present, and future value-based care models have and are reshaping the kidney transplant ecosystem for patients and nephrology and transplant health professionals

Learning Pathway(s)

• Kidney Transplantation

Moderators

• Keith A. Bellovich, DO, FASN
• Roy D. Bloom, MBChB, MD

Presentations

• Bye-Bye, Black Box: What Pre-Wait-Listing Data Collection Means for You and Your Patients
  02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  
  • Rachel E. Patzer, PhD, MPH

Bye-Bye, Black Box: What Pre-Wait-Listing Data Collection Means for You and Your Patients

October 24, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM

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• Navigating an Evolving Organ Procurement Landscape: The Christopher R. Blagg, MD, Endowed Lectureship in Kidney Diseases and Public Policy
  02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
  
  • Jesse D. Schold, MEd, MS, PhD

Navigating an Evolving Organ Procurement Landscape: The Christopher R. Blagg, MD, Endowed Lectureship in Kidney Diseases and Public Policy

October 24, 2024 | 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

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• Utility, Equity, Transparency, or All of the Above in Organ Allocation?
  03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  
  • Syed Ali Husain, MA, MD, FASN, MPH

Utility, Equity, Transparency, or All of the Above in Organ Allocation?

October 24, 2024 | 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM

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• What Happens When the Patient Receives a Kidney Transplant?
  03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  
  • Vishnu S. Potluri, MD, MPH

What Happens When the Patient Receives a Kidney Transplant?

October 24, 2024 | 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

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