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:

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

Operational portion:

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

Marc Melcher MD, PhD

Stanford University

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