Inaugural Mass General Kidney Transplant Symposium

Overview

What you will learn

Upon completion of the Inaugural Mass General Kidney Transplant Symposium offered by Harvard University , participants will be able to:

• Determine complications of immunosuppression and dangerous drug-drug interactions post-transplant. 

• Define current immunosuppressive regimens used, target drug levels and specific drug indications post-transplant. 

• Recognize the risk of disease recurrence post-transplant and advances in genetics of nephrology. 

• Review the advantages of living donation and donor risks. 

• Evaluate appropriate timing of referral for transplantation and appropriate indications/contraindications for transplant, including available programs for managing challenging patients such as elderly, obese and highly sensitized patients. 

• Review how race and ethnicity and socioeconomic factors may affect transplant referrals, waitlisting and transplantation. Review available Massachusetts General Hospital programs and interventions to support equity in kidney transplantation. 

• Determine the routine clinically indicative tests to monitor the kidney transplant and novel non-invasive tests proposed to identify rejection earlier.  

• Define new advances in the development of artificial kidneys & xenotransplantation. 

• Determine the role of point-of-care ultrasound in kidney disease management.