COVID-19 Transplant Families Townhall
Wed, Apr 15
|Webinar
COVID-19 Q&A Panel with Organ Failure/Transplant Experts for Parents, hosted by Transplant Families
Time & Location
Apr 15, 2020, 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM MST
Webinar
About the event
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Transplant Families, in partnership with several pediatric transplant centers and professional organizations, will be hosting a COVID-19 Question & Answer session to help address parental concerns as it pertains to the virus and pediatric transplant community.
Host - Transplant Families (moderator TBD)
Agenda:
1. Opening comments
2. Overview
George V. Mazariegos, MD
Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
3. Moderated Q&A panel featuring:
Sandra Amaral, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Penn and Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kevin P. Daly, MD
Attending, Department of Cardiology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH
Director, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Reggie E. Duerst, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Stem Cell Transplant Program, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Molly Dugan, LCSW, CCTSW
Lead Social Worker, Advance Cardiac Therapies Program Social Worker, Heart Transplant/Heart Failure/VAD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Antonette Flecha, Pharm.D.
Instructor, Einstein School of Medicine, Division of Hepatology
Clinical Transplant Pharmacy Manager at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx NY
Vicky Ng, MD, FRCP
Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program, Transplant Centre
Staff Gastroenterologist, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
Marc Schecter, MD
Clinical Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program/Professor of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Caitlin Shearer RN, BSN, CPN
Kidney Transplant Coordinator
Seattle Children's
Diana A. Shellmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry
Pediatric Psychologist UPMC/Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
4. Closing