Yesterday I posted about the increasing incidence and prevalence of end stage renal disease.
On Saturday I'll be taking part in a medical education webinar, open to the general public, on avenues to increase the availability of safe, ethical and legal kidney transplants. Some will find it controversial*, even repugnant, since one of the big topics is the ethics of compensating kidney donors. (I'll be talking about some of the incremental improvements that have been and can be pursued while that discussion goes on. Some of those have also had to overcome some opposition...)
There's an all-star cast of speakers.
The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplants
May 7, 2022; Virtual; Admission Is Free (join at the link above)
7AM-10 AM (PDT); 9AM-12Noon (CDT); 10AM-1PM (EDT)
Session 1: Ethics of Gifting or Compensation of Donors |
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Topic |
Presenter (s) |
Comments | Time (mins.) | |
Item | Cu mul. | |||
Ethics of Compensating (“Rewarding”) Donors | Janet Radcliffe Richards | World renown philosopher/ethicist. (Oxford). Book: the ethics of transplants why careless thought costs lives |
30 |
30 |
Questions, Comments, and Recap Session 1 | CON: Asif Sharfuddin M.D. FASN FAST PRO: Sally Satel M.D. M.S. |
30 |
60 | |
Session 2: Living Donor Transplant Issues |
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Compensating (“Rewarding” Kidney Donors | Frank McCormick Ph.D. | How the Government Can End the Kidney Shortage and Save More than 40,000 Kidney Failure Patients Each Year by Compensating Living Kidney Donors. Total economic value to kidney recipients is $76B/yr. Net savings to the taxpayers is $7B/yr. |
15 |
75 |
Current Status and Future Developments in Kidney Exchange Programs | Alvin Roth, Ph.D. Nobel Laurette | Living donor organs are being increasingly allocated by paired and exchange organ programs; This is the only major technical improvement in transplantation in years; |
15 |
90 |
Session 2: Living Donor Transplant Issues Cont’d | ||||
Decreasing Barriers and Increasing Access for Living Donation | Cody Maynard; Independent Living Donor Advocate (NKDO) | Immediate actions we can take to increase the pool of living donors. |
10 |
100 |
Discussion and Recap of Session 2 (John Fung, M.D, Ph.D.) |
10 |
110 | ||
Break |
10 |
120 | ||
Session 3: More Living Donor Transplant Issues | ||||
Experiences of a Living Kidney Donor; | Martha Gershun, MBA | Author of a recent book with J.D. Lantos MD: Kidney to Share. |
10 |
130 |
U.S. Public Attitudes Towards Compensating Donors |
Thomas Peters M.D. | Two peer reviewed studies show that 70% of US population support compensating donors $50K. |
10 |
140 |
Risk and Safeguards for Living Donors | Arthur Matas, M.D., Ph.D. | Screening donors is essential. Risks are small but not zero. |
15 |
155 |
The Limits of Increased Counts of Deceased Donor Transplants | John P. Roberts M.D. | Ignorance is common: Increasing the Deceased Donor pool is constrained by the limits of brain- dead donors; <2% of U.S. deaths. |
10 |
165 |
WaitList Zero’s role in Living Donation | Josh Morrison J.D.; Founder of WaitList Zero | “Thanks for helping us, we were lost!” comment by a recipient, pointing to the need for education regarding living donors. | 10 | 175 |
Discussion and Recap Session 3 (Thomas Peters M.D.) |
10 |
185 | ||
Recap and Summary of the Symposium Glenn Chertow M.D., MPH |
20 |
205 | ||
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