NATCO Symposium for Advanced Transplant Professionals Presentations

January 15-17, 2010 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 

Friday, January 15, 2010

PLENARY SESSIONS

What’s New in Donation & Transplantation & What Does the Surgeon Want the Coordinator to Know?

Mikel Prieto, MD, University of Minnesota Mayo Clinical Transplant Center; Phillip C. Camp Jr., MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Julie K. Heimbach, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester

 

Infectious Diseases: What’s New?

Michael G. Ison, MD, MS, Northwestern University

Because That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It: The Role of Change Agent in an Organizational Environment – Keys to Success

Susan Alexander, DNP, CNS, CRNP, BC-ADM, University of Alabama

NATCO Advanced Diagnostics Workshop

Session 1 : Do You See What I See? Using CT Scan & Chest X-Rays to Guide Lung Donor Management

Timothy Whelan, MD, University of Minnesota Medical Center

 

Session 2 : The Visible Heart: Echocardiography & Angiography Application in the Donor Heart

Paul Iaizzo, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical Center

  

Session 3 : Getting a Waveform…Techniques for Successful Arterial Line Insertion

Phillip C. Camp Jr., MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Putting It into Practice: Knowledge + Application + Intervention = Outcomes

Saturday, January 16, 2010

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

TRACK 1: Procurement

 

Incorporating Donation into End-of-Life Care – Support of the Donor Family through the DCD Process

James K. VanKirk, MD, FACP, Eastern Main Medical Center

 

Fulfilling the Need through DCD: Heart & Lungs

James J. Yun, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic

 

The Future of Donor Management Goals: What Is the Implication for Practice?

Tracy DeMars, RN, CPTC, LifeSource; Lori Markham, RN, MSN, CCRN, CPTC, Midwest Transplant Network; Megan Shaughnessy, BA, California Transplant Donor Network; Laura Huckestein, RN, BSN, CPTC, New England Organ Bank

 

Review of Hemodynamic Parameters

Donna Adkisson, RN, MSN, LiDCO, Ltd.

 

Minimally-Invasive Monitoring Devices: Implications for Improving Donor Management

Donna Adkisson, RN, MSN, LiDCO, Ltd.; Lori Markham, RN, MSN, CCRN, CPTC, Midwest Transplant Network

 

Lunch & Learn Session: Get Started in Research

Jo Stecher, PhD, RN, CCTC, Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing

 

Ventilator Management: The Nuts & Bolts & What They Mean in the Donor & Recipient

James J. Yun, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic; Matthew McNally, BSRT, RRT, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

 

Case Studies: Clinical Data to Support Donor Management Strategies

      

TRACK 2: Transplant

 

Pharmacology Switch Therapy: Evidence or VooDoo?

Jennifer Fosnot, PharmD, Vanderbilt University

 

Diagnostic Labs: Why Basic Labs Require Advanced Interpretation in Transplant Patients

Jo Stecher, PhD, RN, CCTC, Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing

 

Pharmacology: Five New Transplant Medications

Jennifer Fosnot, PharmD, Vanderbilt University

 

Prospective Crossmatch? Nope…Get a New Perspective: Understanding the Virtual Crossmatch

Gail Stendahl, RN, MSN, CPNP-AC, CCTC, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

 

Lunch & Learn Session: Get Started in Research

Jo Stecher, PhD, RN, CCTC, Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing

 

Some Rules Were Made to be Broken: A Look at ABO Incompatible Heart Transplantation

Gail Stendahl, RN, MSN, CPNP-AC, CCTC, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

 

CMS: Developing a Quality Program Unique to the Transplant Center

Kristina Haydel, BSN, CCTC, Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute

 

Post-Transplant Co-Morbidities

•  Osteoporosis

•  DM

•  HTN

Haley Hoy, PhD, NP, Vanderbilt Medical Center Lung Transplant

 

Adolescent Transplantation: No One Said It Would Be Easy

Stacee Lerret, PhD(c), RN, CPNP, CCTC, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

Transplant Surgery: The Technical Aspects of Each Procedure & Clinical Ramifications

Julie K. Heimbach, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Phillip C. Camp Jr., MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Sunday, January 17, 2010

PLENARY SESSIONS

 

Evidence-Based Practice in Donation & Transplantation

Philip C. Camp Jr., MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Tina Abdelnour, RN, BSN, CPTC, LifeSource; Dianne LaPointe Rudow, ANP-BC, DNP, CCTC, New York Presbyterian Medical Center; Tracy DeMars, RN, CPTC, LifeSource

 

Changing Practice Based on Evidence: How It Improved Our Practice

Lori Coleman, RN, CPTC, California Pacific Medical Center; Haley Hoy, PhD, NP, Vanderbilt Medical Center; Stacee Lerret, PhD(c), RN, CPNP, CCTC, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Lori Markham, RN, MSN, CCRN, CPTC, Midwest Transplant Network

 

What We Have Learned – Case Studies

Tina Abdelnour, LifeSource; Julie Bronleewe, LifeCenter Northwest; Frank Rathman, Donor Alliance; Adam Bell, LifeBanc; Tracy DeMars, LifeSource; Judy Knuth, New Mexico Donor Services

 

 

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