Today’s Advanced Transplant Provider: Key Players on the Transplant Team

Friday, January 16, 2015, 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.

With the importance of effective communication between medical and surgical physicians and across the interdisciplinary transplant team, ASTS is offering a session directed toward the unique needs of Advanced Transplant Providers.

This program is targeted for Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Allied Health Specialists, as well as departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, and nurses in the medical specialties of abdominal transplant surgery, hepatology, nephrology, pharmacy, infectious disease, and internal medicine. The curriculum has been created and will be taught by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Pharmacists.

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to demonstrate increased knowledge and competence of surgical and clinical practice in terms of the current standards and guidelines for the management of transplant patients. Participants will gain increased understanding of pharmacological management of opportunistic diseases associated with immunosuppression, pharmacogenetics, and the new treatments for Hepatitis C viral infection, as well as assessment and management of geriatric transplant patients.

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Poinciana Salon 3 & 4, Level 2

Moderators:
Georgeine Smith, MS, MHS, PA-C
University of Pennsylvania
Haley Hoy, PhD, ACNP
University of Alabama, Huntsville

8:00 – 8:05 a.m.	Welcome & Introduction Georgeine Smith, MS, MHS, PA-C University of Pennsylvania
8:05 – 8:20 a.m.	Role of APN as Franchise Players on the Transplant Team Haley Hoy, PhD, ACNP University of Alabama, Huntsville
8:20 – 8:45 a.m.	Transplant Infectious Disease: Our Defense vs. Opportunistic Infections Heather Chambers, MSN, APRNC-C University of Nebraska Medical Center
8:45 – 9:15 a.m.	New Drugs in Transplantation: What’s on Deck Heather Chambers, MSN, APRNC-C University of Nebraska
9:15 – 9:40 a.m.	Transplant Pharmacology—Impact of the Pharmacogenomics Curveball Jennifer Gray, Pharm.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center
9:40 – 9:55 a.m.	Break Poinciana Foyer, Level 2
9:55 – 10:10 a.m.	Nutritional Training Before and After Transplant: How to Best Utilize the Medicare Required Dietician Deonna Moore, MSN, ACNP-BC Vanderbilt University
10:10 – 10:25 a.m.	The Transplant Draft: Geriatric Patients as Late Round Prospects—Did We Draft the Wrong Player? Rebecca Duke, DNP, MSN, APN-CNP Northwestern Medicine
10:25 – 10:40 a.m.	Overview of Functional Assessment Tools Lee A. Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA Northwestern University
10:40 – 10:45 a.m.	Q&A Session Rebecca Duke, DNP, MSN, APN-CNP Northwestern Medicine Lee A. Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA Northwestern University
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Gerontology Panel: the Frail and the Elderly—How Do You Assess It? Heather Chambers, MSN, APRNC-C Rebecca Duke DNP, MSN, APN-CNP Lee A. Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA Deonna Moore, MSN, ACNP-BC