Region 5
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Region 5 meeting
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 – Las Vegas, NV
Agenda, time, and registration:
OPTN Region 5Regional profile
Regional Councillor
William Bry, MD
California Pacific Medical Center-Van Ness Campus
Governance
Data
Preparing for the meeting
- Review the first-time attendee overview of regional meetings
- Review public comment educational resources and committee updates
OPTN Regional Review
Help us analyze and shape the future of OPTN regions.
Region 5 specific presentations
Winter 2021 Collaborative presentations
- Agenda and speaker biographies
- Donor family communication to recipients
- General session 1: COVID-19 overview
- General session 2: UNOS Updates
- General session 3: Success during COVID-19
- Lunch and Learn — CareDx
- Management of pediatric donors Pre-OR, Adil Husain
- OPO response to COVID-19, Lucy Lawrence
- Treating transplant patients during COVID-19
- Ashley Cardenas and Suzanne Reed
- Roya Sadeghi, Use of a Bluetooth tablet-based technology to improve outcomes in lung transplantation
- Source document: Pediatric Blood Draw Guideline
Archives
Review presentations, summaries and other documents from past regional meetings:
Archive: Region 5 and Collaborative presentations
Collaborative presentations
- Opening Remarks from Gold Level Sponsor CareDX
- Follow Up In Action – Aaron Cohen
- First Person Authorization (FPA) and DCD – Amanda Cole
- First Person Authorization (FPA) and DCD – David Robles
- First Person Authorization (FPA) and DCD – Heather Osipowicz
- Living Donors and Social Media – Celeste Braly, Helen Christensen
- Transplant Center – Organ Offer Management – Staffing Model – Kate Grief
- Transplant Center – Organ Offer Management – Staffing Model – Courtney Lepis, Megan Bell
- Pancreas Transplant – Keri Ichikawa
- Organ Allocation Updates (lung) – Maryl Johnson
- Organ Allocation Updates (liver) – Ryo Hirose