Kidney Week 2024 Special Media Event: Insights on Rapidly Evolving Kidney Transplant Policy Landscape

On Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4:30-5:15 PM PT (7:30-8:15 PM ET), ASN will host an open-format discussion session – for media only – featuring several of the world’s leading transplant nephrology researchers, care providers, and public policy experts.  The session will examine the immediate and long-term impacts of the rapidly changing federal transplant policy landscape and what it means for the 90,000 Americans on the kidney transplant list today and those who may require a lifesaving transplant in the future. Featured experts include:

Syed Ali Husain, MD, MPH, MA, FASN   Professor and Transplant Nephrologist at Columbia University

Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, FASN, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at Columbia University, Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Nephrology and Director of Quality and Outcomes Research, New York Presbyterian Hospital Transplant Initiative.

Rachel E. Patzer, PhD, MPH,  President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, Professor, Department of Surgery, at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Epidemiology at the Fairbanks School of Public Health. 

Jesse D. Schold, MEd, MS, PhD Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Policy and Associate Vice Chair of Policy and Outcomes for the Department of Surgery, at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.

Suzanne Watnick, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington, ASN Health Policy Scholar in Residence 

You can access this special media session via ZOOM:

ZOOM LINK

Meeting ID: 835 5524 1901

Passcode: 043