8:00 a.m.

Ethics and Efficacy in Transplant, John R. Lake, MD, and Timothy Pruett, MD

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the topics surounding transplant ethics.
2. Describe efficacy as it relates to transplant and the power to produce desired results.

9:00 a.m.

Pediatric Total Pancreatectomy With Islet Auto-Transplantation (TPIAT), Srinath Chinnakotla, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the criteria for pediatric patients to be eligible for TPIAT.
2. Describe how the process works and the patient outcomes.

9:30 a.m.

Challenges of Donor-Specific Anitbodies and Paired Exchange, Ty Dunn, MD, MS, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain what makes up donor-specific antibodies.
2. Review how having high donor-specific antibodies affects the patient’s ability to get a transplant.
3. Describe paired exchange and its impact on increasing the number of transplants.

10:15 a.m.

Focused Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI), Rebecca A. Stepan, MPH, RD, CPHQ, LSSBB, and Michelle James, MS, RN, CNS, CCTN, APRN-BC, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe QAPI in transplant.
2. Discuss one example of a QAPI project.

11:00 a.m.

Current Management of Cystic Fibrosis, Jordan Dunitz, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss evidence-based therapies for patients with cystic fibrosis.
2. Discuss appropriate timing of transplant necessary for patients with CF.

11:30 a.m.

Challenges in the Care of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), Rade Tomic, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the pathophysiology of interstitial lung disease.
2. Explain the impact of ILD on the posttransplant recovery process.

1:15 p.m.

What’s New in the Treatment of Hepatitis C, Julie Thompson, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the mechinism of action for new hepatitis C virus (HCV) drugs.
2. Discuss the impact of HCV on liver transplantation.

2:00 p.m.

“Don’t Rule Me Out”—Donor Availability, William D. Payne, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss one new strategy for the medical management of potential organ donors.
2. Explain why age is no longer a driving factor in being a donor.

3:00 p.m.

Increased Donor Utilization Through Breathing Lung Transplantation Using the Organ Care System (OCS), Gabriel Loor, MD, University of Minnesota Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how the quality of a potential donor lung is improved with ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP).
2. Explain how EVLP increases the donor pool.

3:45–4:30 p.m.

Adult and Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease, Cindy M. Martin, MD, University of Minnesota Health, and Rebecca Ameduri, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the unique considerations for a patient with congenital heart disease in heart transplantation.