"Contentious Issues in Organ Transplantation-A Colloquium" is a novel forum aimed at fostering:
- Healthy and non-partisan debate on contentious issues impacting transplantation.
- Exposure to important and provocative topics impacting the field for young and minority investigators that otherwise are not offered in training.
This two-day conference, being held October 8-9, 2009 at the Cleveland Clinic, is designed to juxtapose representatives from the academic, clinical, political, regulatory, industry, patient advocacy, and research communities.
A Transplant Summit 2009 brochure (including agenda, schedule and general information) is available for download.
Young Investigators Forum
A Young Investigators forum will provide opportunities for Young and Minority Investigators to present their work and interact with established investigators in the field. Young Investigators are those in training (medical students, residents or fellows in medicine, surgery, nephrology or transplantation, transplant professionals (coordinators, nurses, pharmacists, organ procurement specialists,statisticians) or within the first 5 years of their first faculty/staff appointment in the relevant speciality/subspecialty transplant-related profession.
Minority investigators and trainees will self-identify as such based on current census bureau norms. Trainees and young investigators will need to submit the prescribed form letter from their program director or department chair verifying trainee status. Young and minority investigators frequently lack exposure to these key issues during their training.
A key theme of this conference will be the education and mentoring of young and minority investigators in the context of a symposium designed specifically for these attendees. These individuals will interact with some of the top investigators and thinkers in the field which could then enrich transplant outcomes research in the future.
Help author the
2009 Transplant Summit!
Participants will have the opportunity to author publications reflecting the proceedings of the conference. The proceedings will address key issues pertaining to organ allocation, access to transplantation, center-specific reports and pay-for performance and prescription drug coverage.
You may download the Abstract Submission Guidelines for your review.
Chairs
Dr. Srinivas is a Staff Physician in the department of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a transplant nephrologist and pancreas transplant physician and has authored or co-authored many scientific papers on outcomes of renal transplantation. He is also involved in research on hypertension in African-Americans and the living kidney donor.
Dr. Schold is a biostatistician and Outcomes researcher, Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Schold is an internationally renowned expert on kidney transplant outcomes, organ allocation strategies and statistical methods in transplant outcomes research.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Fung is the Chairman, Department of General Surgery; Chairman Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery and Director Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic. He is a liver transplant surgeon and hepatobiliary surgeon of international renown who has authored numerous scientific publications pertaining to the field.
Dr. Schreiber is the Chair, Nephrology and Hypertension at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an internationally renowned expert on hypertension, renovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and peritoneal dialysis. He has authored numerous scientific papers on hypertension, renovascular disease and measurement of renal function.
Dr. Goldfarb is a kidney transplant surgeon and the Head, Section of Transplantation at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He has authored numerous scientific papers on kidney transplantation and has developed novel methods to estimate renal allograft function after transplantation. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
Art Thomson, MA
Mr. Thomson is the Transplant Administrator at the Transplant Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a nationally renowned expert on the administrative and financial matters relevant to the running of major transplant centers and has more than two decades of expertise in the field.
Beth Christoff, BSN, MBA
Mrs. Christoff is the Administrative Program Coordinator, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic with more than a decade of experience with organ transplantation and the organization and conduct of scientific meetings at the Cleveland Clinic.
Melissa Nelson
Melissa Nelson is the Department Administrator for the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic.
