Transplant Lunch and Learn Webinars

Supporting the Path to Transplant: Living Donor Education and Resources for Dialysis Teams

This session provides a brief overview of living organ donation, including what it is, how it works, and why it saves lives. Learn practical strategies and patient-friendly tools for finding a living donor, including communication tips, examples of how others have shared their story, and resources to help guide each step of the process.

New Options in Kidney Transplantation

Explore emerging technologies that aim to enhance or potentially replace renal transplantation as a treatment for end-stage renal disease. Get a brief look at the evolution of renal transplantation and today’s most promising innovations, including bio prosthetic replacements, xenotransplantation, and advances in tissue engineering. Gain insight into where these technologies stand today, the progress already achieved, and the clinical and ethical challenges that remain on the path forward.

Waitlist Wisdom: Ensuring Patients Stay Active, Informed, and Prepared

Explore the key steps and ongoing requirements after a patient is placed on the transplant waitlist. Learn how wait time accrues, how to help patients remain active, where to find listing information, and how to prepare patients for a successful transplant opportunity. Ideal for dialysis staff looking to strengthen transplant support processes.

Organ Donation: You Have the Power to Save Lives

Uncover the life-changing power of organ, eye, and tissue donation—stories of hope, healing, and selfless sacrifice that create lasting legacies. Diana Rogel will break down the facts, dispel common myths, and show how education can bridge the gap between those waiting for a second chance and the donors who make it possible.

The Impact of Living Kidney Donation on Donors and Recipients

Living kidney donation is a powerful act of generosity that offers recipients a new lease on life while also imparting benefits to donors. This presentation reviews the living donation process including the evaluation process, donation, and follow-up. Also included will be a discussion of the impact of living kidney donation on both donors and recipients, examining the physical, emotional, and social aspects of this life-altering experience.

Cognitive Function and Frailty in CKD and Kidney Transplant

In this webinar, Dr. Aditi Gupta discusses the prevalence of cognitive impairment and frailty in CKD and kidney transplantation. Understand how brain alterations seen in CKD differ from those in cognitive decline with aging and other common causes of dementia. Discover clinical approaches to manage cognitive impairment in CKD and learn about the prevalence of frailty and methods to assess frailty.

Financial Readiness for Kidney Transplant

In this webinar we review health insurance options for patients considering a kidney transplant. This includes ESRD Medicare and coordination with other insurances. Learn about standard financial expenses expected with a kidney transplant. We will review potential transplant center requirements as well as resources to assist patients in becoming financially secure for kidney transplant.

Navigating the Emotional Impact of Transplant Loss

Listen to this discussion on the emotional and psychological effects experienced by patients following a transplant loss. Gain practical coping strategies to help you better support your patients and hear powerful personal stories from two patient subject matter experts, who will share their lived experiences with transplant loss.

Pre-emptive Kidney Transplantation in Children

Dr. Eileen Ciccia, a pediatric nephrologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, discusses the benefits and challenges of preemptive kidney transplantation in children. She highlights improved survival, growth, and quality of life compared to dialysis, while addressing barriers such as late referrals, and complex evaluation processes. Dr. Chicha emphasizes early, individualized planning, the importance of living donors, and the need for ongoing research to improve outcomes for pediatric patients with advanced kidney disease.

How Old is Too Old for Transplant?

In this webinar, Dr. Daniel Katz discusses age-related transplant outcomes for patients aged 65 and older, and the use of higher kidney donor profile index (KDPI) in older patients.

Strategies To Optimize Transplant Referral Readiness and Increase Referrals

Learn how St. Louis Children’s Hospital utilized a referral-readiness tool to increase their transplant referrals and how improved education and communication was effective in removing barriers to timely referrals. This concept can easily be adapted for work with adult end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients.

Understanding the Kidney Allocation System

Learn how the kidney allocation system works and how it can impact the availability of organs for transplant. The kidney allocation system is meant to increase equity in transplant access for candidates nationwide. It prioritizes medical need, optimized timing, and recipient suitability rather than geography or organizational jurisdiction.

Understanding Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) and Estimated Post-Transplant Survival (EPTS)  

Hear about how KDPI is used to evaluate every kidney from a deceased donor that is offered for transplant and is used in combination with the EPTS, which estimates how long a transplant candidate is likely to benefit from a kidney transplant. This information will help you in educating dialysis patients about KDPI and the options for choosing to receive a higher KDPI kidney.

KDIGO Guideline Review and Transplant Pharmacy

In this webinar, Jarrod Penrod, Pharm.D., will review the highlights of the KDIGO Guidelines. Learn how you can use these guidelines to direct the care of your own patients while learning more about the common medications prescribed to patients for both CKD/ESRD and post-transplant kidney health.

ESRD Treatment Choices Learning Collaborative: How Dialysis Facilities Can Impact This Organ Donation and Transplantation Initiative!

This presentation provides an overview of the CMS/CMMI/HRSA collaborative focused on increasing the number of kidneys recovered and transplanted, including high-KDPI kidneys, while also decreasing the kidney nonuse rate. Learn how the ETCLC works, current outcomes, and key strategies that can be employed by dialysis facilities to drive transplantation for individuals with ESRD.