RECORDINGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Inaugural
IPTA Virtual Educational Symposium
NOVEMBER 14–15, 2024
Stephen D. Marks
Rupesh Raina
Jenny Prüfe
Gillian Mayersohn
Day 1 - Thursday, November 14, 2024 • 09:00–13:00 EST (See below for your local time)
09:00–11:00 | Allied Health & Nursing Professionals Session
09:00 | Understanding Immunological Risks: Why Do We Go for Incompatible Transplantation and What are the Consequences for Patient and Family?
Stephen D. Marks, United Kingdom
Bio
Department of Paediatric Nephrology
University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
09:30 | Medication and Nutrition: Do’s and Don’ts
Jenny Wichart, Canada
Bio
Pharmacy Clinical Practice Leader
Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada
Jenny is a Pharmacy Clinical Practice Leader for Solid Organ Transplant, Nephrology and Ambulatory Specialty Clinics and has held a clinical practice in pediatric transplant and nephrology clinics at the Alberta Children’s Hospital since 2001. She currently holds a position as a Councilor for the International Pediatric Transplant Association and has previously Co-Chaired the Allied Health and Nursing Professionals Group within this society. Jenny has also supported many leadership positions within the Canadian Society of Transplantation and Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
Sarah Kocel, Canada
Bio
Clinical Dietitian, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Calgary, Canada
Sarah Kocel, MSc, RD has been a clinical dietitian for more than 20 years. After doing her undergraduate at McGill, she spent the first 16 years at The Hospital for Sick Children, working in the cardiology program. She did her master’s degree at the University of Toronto, with research on treatment of a post-surgical complication using defatted breast milk. Sarah is currently working at The Alberta Children’s Hospital in the Nephrology Clinic as well as the inpatient medical units. She continues to be involved in nutrition initiatives, most recently publishing the results of a small study looking at families’ perception of proposed nutrition screening on admission to pediatric hospitals: a qualitative analysis.
Sarah began her career at Alberta Health Services in 2019 and is currently work in the Nephrology clinic spans a range of conditions, including working with patients and families who have undergone kidney transplantation.
10:00 | Medication Adherence and Motivation
Gillian Mayersohn, United States
Bio
Pediatric Psychologist, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital;
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Gillian S. Mayersohn, Psy.D., is a Pediatric Psychologist at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Mayersohn provides inpatient and outpatient psychological services to children and adolescents with chronic medical conditions using evidence-based interventions (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Behavior Management, Motivational Interviewing). Dr. Mayersohn’s clinical and research interests include adjustment to and coping with chronic illness, adherence, training/supervision, program development/quality improvement, quality of life, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and post-traumatic growth. .
Kelli Triplett, United States
Bio
Psychologist
Children’s Medical Center Dallas
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas, USA
Kelli Triplett, Ph.D., ABPP is a Licensed Psychologist who is board certified in Health Psychology. She works with Solid Organ Transplant Patients at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern. Dr. Triplett completed her predoctoral internship in pediatric psychology at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida and her postdoctoral fellowship at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Her clinical and research interests include treatment adherence, posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress, transition from pediatric to adult healthcare and biomedical ethics.
10:30 | Impacts on Everyday Life (hygiene, dealing with vulnerability, social isolation)
Kat Broad, Canada
Bio
Professional Practice Lead for Social Work
BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kat Broad, RSW, MSW comes from Nyongar Country, otherwise known as Perth in Western Australia but now residing as migrant on the Coast Salish lands, otherwise known as Vancouver. Kat completed her social work training at the University of Western Australia and Masters of Social Work from Flinders University. She has worked in social work roles across healthcare before moving to Canada almost a decade ago primarily working as the social worker on the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at BC Children’s Hospital. Through this work, Kat has been clinically supporting a diverse range of patients and has shown a special interest in topics and research projects related to health literacy, anti-indigenous racism, donorship and organ origin education, post traumatic stress in the pediatric transplant population and recipient quality of life post-transplant. When she’s not practicing Social Work, you’ll find Kat planning her next outdoor adventure alongside her husband Tom and their three and one year old daughters.
Beverly Kosmach-Park, United States
Bio
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Liver and Intestine Transplant,
Transition Program Specialist
MyPATH Department of Transplant Surgery
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dr. Beverly Kosmach-Park is the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Transplant Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, working with patients and families throughout the transplant process from evaluation to transition to adult care. As Transition Program Specialist for MyPATH, a program for adolescent liver and intestine recipients, she collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to help youth prepare for transfer to adult providers. Beverly is an active AST member and has served on the Executive Committee for the Pediatric Community of Practice chairing a task force that designed the AST Transition Toolkit and launched the Transition Portal. She was a board member of the International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) for 9 years, serving as President and Education Director and is currently a council member of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association. Beverly is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and Director of Camp Chihopi, an annual camping event for transplant recipients.
09:00–11:00 | Medical Session
09:00 | Understanding Tissue Typing and Crossmatch Results
09:30 | New Concepts in Transplantation Immunology Testing
Dechu Puliyanda, United States
Bio
Director, Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology
Medical Director, Children’s Health Center
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Dechu Puliyanda, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at Cedars Sinai Medical Center as well as UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is the director of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Her areas of expertise:
- Use of biomarkers to determine kidney transplant rejection
- Transplantation of the highly sensitized, difficult to transplant pediatric patients
- Viral infection following transplantation
- Transplantation of the very young pediatric recipients
Dechu Puliyanda has won numerous accolades throughout her career. She was a Gold Medalist from Mysore Medical College. During residency she won the best intern award. She has won numerous awards for her exceptional teaching of medical students, residents and fellows. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Benjamin Kagan award for outstanding contribution to patient care, research and teaching.
After her completion of her fellowship at Harvard medical school, she joined Cedars Sinai Medical center in 2000. Her research here has focused on viral infection in the post-transplant period and surrogate markers for renal transplant rejection.
She is a world-renowned speaker and is regularly invited to speak at a number of national and international conferences. She is the author of several high impact peer-reviewed publications in prestigious medical journals. In addition, she has a very strong commitment to providing comprehensive care to children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease.
10:00 | Complex Paediatric ABO Incompatible Transplantation
Sidharth Kumar Sethi, India
Bio
Senior Consultant,
Pediatric Nephrology & Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Kidney Institute, Medanta, The Medicity
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Dr Sidharth Sethi, MD, FRCPCH, FASN, FISN, FIAP is currently Senior Consultant, Pediatric Nephrology and Renal Transplant Medicine, Kidney Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, India. His chief interests are Acute Kidney Injury, Dialysis and Pediatric Renal Transplantation. He was trained as a Fellow and Senior Resident in Pediatric Nephrology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California. His chief interests are Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury, Dialysis and kidney transplant. He has been actively involved in the care of children with all kinds of complex renal disorders, including acute kidney injury, dialysis, nephrotic syndrome, tubular disorders, urinary tract infections, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and renal transplantation.
He has more than 200 indexed publications in Pediatric Nephrology and chapters in reputed nephrology textbooks.
10:30 | Modern Immunosuppression Regimens in Pediatric SOT Recipients
Paul Grimm, United States
Bio
Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Stanford Children’s Health Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program. Started career as rural family doctor in Saskatchewan, Canada then trained in Pediatrics, Nephrology and Transplantation at Winnipeg, and Halifax in Canada and UCLA. Published >100 papers. Previous research was on transplant immunology, renal pathology and image analysis. Current clinical and research focus now is tolerance, infant transplantation, highly sensitized recipients, multiorgan transplants, cystinosis and patients with unusual transplant problems.
11:00–13:00 | Joint AHNP and Medical Session
11:00 | When to Accept to Decreased Donor Organ Transplantation
Rupesh Raina, United States
Bio
Adult and Pediatric Nephrologist,
Department of Nephrology
Akron Children's Hospital and Akron General Medcial Center Cleveland Clinic
Rupesh Raina, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine, has been a clinical faculty member at NEOMED for seven years, and became M4 director in October 2021. He also practices adult and pediatric nephrology at Akron General Hospital, Summa Health and Akron Children’s Hospital, and conducts research on acute kidney injury and outcomes.
11:30 | Decision Making Re: Transplantation - Ethical Reflections on the Child's Say
Debra Lefkowitz, United States
Bio
Pediatric Psychologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Clinical Psychology,
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Debra Lefkowitz, Psy.D. is Section Co-Chief, Pediatric Psychology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a former Councilor and Allied Health and Ethics Committee member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association.
Aviva Goldberg, Canada
Bio
Pediatric Nephrologist and Professor
Pediatrics and Child Health, Max rady College of Medicine
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Dr. Aviva Goldberg is Section Head of Nephrology in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, the Associate Dean Student Affairs and co directs the UGME Professionalism Program at the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She completed a clinical fellowship in Bioethics and Medical Humanities and Northwestern University and a Masters of Arts in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Goldberg is the Vice President of the Canadian Society of Transplantation and former Chair of the AFMC Student Affairs Section. She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on ethics, health policy and medical humanities subjects in transplantation, ethics and pediatrics. She co-edited the book Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation, the first book solely on pediatric transplant ethics. She is a recipient of the Canadian Association of Medical Education’s 2018 Certificate of Merit a 2022 Martha Donovan Women’s Leadership Award and multiple other teaching awards.
12:00 | IPTA Guidelines on PTLD
Vikas Dharnidharka, United States
Bio
Alexis F. Hartmann, Sr., MD, Endowed Professor of Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Clinical Investigation, Department of Pediatrics
Professor and Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Hypertension & Apheresis
Washington University School of Medicine & St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis, USA
Dr. Dharnidharka obtained his MBBS and MD degrees from Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Hospital, under Bombay University. He completed his Pediatric Nephrology fellowship training at Children’s Hospital/Harvard University in Boston. Dr. Dharnidharka has published more than 240 papers and has received NIH grant support continuously since 2004, with 4 current grants as lead Principal Investigator. His expertise relates to BK virus and Epstein-Barr virus infections and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders.
12:30 | The Complex Case: Psychosocial Aspects on Accepting or Refusing Transplantation
Jenny Prüfe, Germany
Bio
Head Psychologist,
Pediatrics
University Hospital Essen
Jenny Prüfe, PhD, MPhil (cantab), Dipl. Reha-Päd is heading the psychosocial services at University Children’s Hospital Essen. From 2012-2019 has been post-doctoral researcher and clinical scientist at MHH (Medical School Hannover). Jenny’s research focusses on childhood development in the context of severe disease. She has particular interest is in aspects of cognition, adherence, and transition into adulthood of young people following solid organ transplantation.
Contact
Address
The Transplantation Society
International Headquarters
740 Notre-Dame Ouest
Suite 1245
Montréal, QC, H3C 3X6
Canada