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Partners in Transplant
Partners in Transplant

Partnering together:

To support transplant education for HCPs

Support transplant centers enhance their kidney transplant processes

Sanofi’s speaker programs offer transplant centers expert-led education, practical tools, and innovative strategies to support kidney transplant care. These programs help address challenges, explore donor options, and stay informed on evolving practices.

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Learn how transplant centers can:

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Enhance your living donor program

 

  • Empowering Living Kidney Donors: Enhancing Education and Risk Assessment

  • Increasing Access to Kidney Transplantation

  • Shifting Paradigms of Kidney Transplantation: The Role of Preemptive Kidney Transplantation in Kidney Disease Care

  • Evaluating Transplant Outcomes: Evolving Metrics and Measures

 

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Grow your kidney transplant program

 

  • Evaluating Transplant Outcomes: Evolving Metrics and Measures

  • Increasing Access to Kidney Transplantation

  • Empowering Living Kidney Donors: Enhancing Education and Risk Assessment

  • Shifting Paradigms of Kidney Transplantation: The Role of Preemptive Kidney Transplantation in Kidney Disease Care

  • The Kidney Allocation System: Impact on Transplantation

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Help improve kidney transplant metrics

 

  • Evaluating Transplant Outcomes: Evolving Metrics and Measures

  • Frailty and Kidney Transplantation: The Concept of Physiologic Reserve

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Increase use of underutilized donors

 

  • The Kidney Allocation System: Impact on Transplantation

  • Frailty and Kidney Transplantation: The Concept of Physiologic Reserve

Each of the above topics are created from the following speaker programs

Read the full speaker program objectives below to better understand the program contents and what specific parts are covered.

 

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Objectives:

  • Discuss steps that can be taken within the transplant community to help support living kidney donors

  • Review available tools to evaluate the risk of ESRD for living kidney donors and how they can facilitate the donor-evaluation process

  • Highlight transplant center practices and their impact on the number of living kidney donor transplants

  • Emphasize the importance of follow-up with living kidney donors

  • Understand the role of genetic testing in the living kidney donor-evaluation process

  • Identify gaps in the living kidney donor-evaluation process and discuss opportunities to improve

  • Assess the impact of kidney paired donations on transplant trends at your institution

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Objectives:

  • Review the increased disease and economic burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD)

  • Evaluate hypothetical case studies demonstrating the impact of dialysis, kidney transplant, and preemptive kidney transplant

  • Describe the survival rate and the economic impact associated with dialysis vs kidney transplant

  • Discuss the benefits and improved patient outcomes associated with early referral and preemptive kidney transplant

  • Review the current legislation regarding kidney transplant for patients with ESRD and assess how it has changed the landscape of kidney disease care and treatment

  • Explore real-world implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) value- based care models

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Objectives:

  • Review the benefits of kidney transplantation and the need to increase transplantation rates

  • Compare transplantation of high-Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) kidneys to remaining on dialysis and waiting for low-KDPI kidneys

  • Discuss transplantation with other underutilized sources of deceased donor (DD ) kidneys

  • Examine the benefits of living donor (LD ) kidney transplant and available strategies to increase the LD kidney pool

  • Discuss programs and other resources designed to increase transplant knowledge and access through patient and caregiver education

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Objectives:

  • Discuss the evolution of organ allocation, including continuous distribution and expedited placements

  • Examine metrics used to assess performance of transplant programs and discuss the effects on transplant-center practice

  • Review details of the IOTA model and discuss how its impending implementation may impact the transplant population

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Objectives:

  • Provide an overview of frailty, including its clinical significance and commonly used assessment tools

  • Explore the potential impact of frailty on clinical decision-making in

    • Patients undergoing general surgery

    • Patients with ESKD

    • Patients undergoing transplant surgery

  • Discuss the impact of prehabilitation frailty on posttransplant clinical outcomes

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Objectives:

  • Review the evolution of kidney allocation policies in the US

  • Discuss the current kidney allocation policy implemented in March 2021, which focused on achieving a balance between equity and utility

  • Highlight 2-year outcomes data with the current policy and considerations for the transplant community

  • Explore hypothetical case studies demonstrating the impact of the current kidney allocation policy on transplant centers and patients

  • Discuss the continuous distribution allocation system that is currently in development