Moderator: Carrie Lindower

This webinar will include samples of best practices and resources e.g. explore txp, effective arts, donor champion.

After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:

1. Explain the benefit of providing living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) education earlier in the disease process, and identify strategies for repetition throughout the process.
2. Discuss engagement of patients with end-stage renal disease, their families, and possible living donors to emphasize medical facts about living donor evaluation, surgery and recovery, advantages of living donation, and strategies for how to find living donors.
3. Review comprehensive risk and benefit information about LDKT, known fears or concerns about LDKT, and stories about real-life LDKT and LKD experiences for both recipients/potential donors
4. Identify novel approaches to LDKT education that have shown success

Moderator: Jim Rodrigue

This webinar will cover how culture influences health care decision-making, and how you can apply this knowledge to increase access to living kidney donation. The speaker will use the Hispanic/Latina culture as an example but these principles can be applied to other cultures.

After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of initiating culturally competent discussions about living kidney donation with potential donors and candidates
2. Identify ways to integrate culturally tailored navigation assistance throughout the donation and transplant process.
3. Describe at least one innovative programs to reduce cultural barriers to living kidney donation

Please view this video presentation by Debbie Mast prior to the Optimizing Kidney Paired Donation webinar.

Moderator: Marian Charlton, RN, CCTC

This webinar will address strategies to increase access to Kidney Paired Donation (KPD), how best to operationalize a successful program and will discuss the unique surgical and financial challenges programs experience. The financial section of this webinar will be pre-recorded. You are asked to review this section on your own prior to the webinar, and the speaker will be present on the live broadcast for questions.

After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss strategies to optimize access to transplant with KPD.
2. Discuss surgical challenges including real time swap failures.
3. Describe the required infrastructure needed to successful operationalize a KPD program
4. Discuss financial challenges and barriers within KPD

• Dedicated Staff
• Compatible Pairs
• Desensitization/ABOi
• Cryopreservation
• HIPAA Compliance
• Education/consenting
• ADP concept
• Bridge donation
• Preselect

Surgical portion:

• Preselect
• Complications
• Quality of imports
• Real time swap failures
• Export challenges
• Playing nice in the sandbox

Financial portion (pre-recorded, speaker will be present on webinar for questions)

• Different Financial Models
  • SAC proposal
  • NKR
  • UNOS
• State Medicaid Patients
• Donor protection program

After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss strategies to educate and assist patients in minimizing financial burden of living donation.
2. Discuss program strategies to ensure proper coverage of donor care (& complications) in contracting, & most effective utilization of donor cost acquisition report to minimize costs donors incur.
3. Discuss ways to educate donors and recipients about NOTA compliance in the context of fundraising.