2022 - TID 2022 Virtual

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Day 1: Wednesday, November 16

1.2 - Session 2 - Donor Issues

Presenter: Anoma Nellore, Ines Ushiro-Lumb, Alissa Wright, , ,
Authors: Anoma Nellore, Ines Ushiro-Lumb, Alissa Wright, Cameron Wolfe, Alessandra Mularoni

Session 2 - Donor Issues

Moderators: Cameron Wolfe, United States; and Alessandra Mularoni, Italy

Xenotransplantation: What is the Infection Risk?

Anoma Nellore, United States 
Bio

Interim Director, Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Dr. Nellore is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Interim Director of the Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests relate to understanding immune responses to viral pathogens in the immunocompromised host.

Investigating Donor-derived Infection Clusters – Where to even Start?

Ines Ushiro-Lumb, United Kingdom 
Bio

Clinical Consultant Virologist
National Health Service Blood and Transplant

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Dr. Ushiro-Lumb is a Medical Virologist at the National Health Service Blood and Transplant, in the United Kingdom. Lead Clinical Microbiologist for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation, and Clinical Director of the Virology Reference Laboratory. She is also part of the UK Health Security Agency Virus Reference Service in London. Member of various national and European committees on the quality and safety of blood, cells, tissues and organs for transfusion and transplantation and councilor of the International Society for Organ Donation and the Transplant Infectious Diseases section of the Transplantation Society.

Deceased Donors with Meningitis/Encephalitis

Alissa Wright , United States 
Bio

Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

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Dr. Alissa Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is also the current Head of the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) Division of Infectious Disease. She has established a Transplant Infectious Disease program for the province of British Columbia for both solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Her clinical responsibilities include the care of pre- and post-transplant patients at Vancouver General Hospital and St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. She is also a consultant for BC Transplant on infectious disease issues in organ donors and BC Cancer on infectious issues in cancer patients.

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