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Region 5 meeting
- September 12, 2024
- San Diego, CA
Registration and agenda information coming soon.
OPTN Region 5Region 5 Educational Collaborative
Winter 2024 event will be Feb. 28, 2024. Learn about the Winter 2024 event
Regional profile
Regional Councillor
Mark L. Barr, MD
Keck Hospital of USC
Governance
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Preparing for the meeting
- Review the first-time attendee overview of regional meetings
- Review public comment educational resources and committee updates
UNOS Region 5 Educational Collaborative – Winter 2024
Where
- The conference meeting rooms will be at The Horseshoe Las Vegas Hotel
- 3645 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV
- (702) 967-4111
When
- Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
- 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Registration fee
- Attendee registration – $350
- Includes breakfast, lunch and admission to the networking reception from 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm.
Hotel reservations
- Guest rooms will be located at the adjoining Paris Las Vegas Hotel
- 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV
- (702) 946-7000
- Room rate: $249 + $45.95 resort fee + taxes. Make a reservation.
UNOS Region 5 Educational Collaborative (Winter 2024) is sponsored by Nevada Donor Network, Paragonix Technologies, Trinity Medical Solutions, CareDx, Sanofi, Takeda, and Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Archives
Review presentations, summaries and other documents from past regional meetings:
Summer 2023 Educational Collaborative
The UNOS Region 5 Educational Collaborative was a daylong forum (Aug. 23, 2023) organized by members of the region. Teams shared their unique expertise, research and experiences with each other in a coordinated, collective and innovative environment.
Agenda highlights:
- Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) – Ethics, best practices for consenting and lung utilization
- Composite Allocation Score (CAS) – Geographical challenges with our new allocation practice
- Keeping up with the times – Final Rule, eGFR mandates and Organ Offer Acceptance Rate Ratio
- Living donors – Increasing utilization and sharing experience
- Maximizing the gift – DCD, NRP and disparity in access related to organ biomechanics
- Transplant program operations – Staffing models and challenges with increasing number of organ offers
Winter 2023 Collaborative
Agenda highlights:
- Multiple sessions on DCD/NRP from start to finish
- Coordinator retention
- Living donor wellness
- Soft skills and communication skills for OPOs and transplant centers
- OR time coordination
- Increase in donor derived TB
Summer 2022 Collaborative
Highlights:
- COVID-19 Update
- CMS Final Rule
- NRP Heart and Liver
- UCSF Living Donor Advocate PDSA
- DEI Update/Ongoing Work
Winter 2021 Collaborative
- 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
Archive: Region 5 and Collaborative
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