Save the date for LA DanceFit & Ava’s Heart’s Hip Hop Transplant Dance Party. Join us for hip hop dance instruction, taco track, and swag. More info coming soon!

This webinar on June 7th at 1 PM MST, hosted by the Chris Klug Foundation, will cover experiencing heart failure, heart transplants and how to navigate the process and how it feels after a heart transplant.

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This webinar will provide an in-depth review of the evaluation day for potential kidney transplant recipients. This course will be of particular interest to dialysis staff including social workers, nurses, dietitians, technicians as well as other renal health care professionals involved in the care of dialysis patients and or in referring patients for kidney transplant. Each discipline (Nephrology, Surgery, Social Work, Dietary) will explain the details of their assessment of a new evaluation patient and decision making about candidacy.

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This program will review the history of organ donation and transplant in the US, who can be an organ donor, at what point is the local organ procurement organization contacted and what they do to facilitate donation, and finally a review of the rules around organ allocation.

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During National Donate Life Blue & Green Day, the public is encouraged to wear blue and green and to engage in sharing the Donate Life message and promoting the importance of registering as an organ, eye and tissue donor.

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This presentation is for transplant professionals. It will review the process for organ donation to transplant surgery, with an additional focus on how organs are allocated throughout the US. This program will review the history of organ donation and transplant in the US, who can be an organ donor, at what point is the local organ procurement organization contacted and what they do to facilitate donation, and finally a review of the rules around organ allocation. Understanding this process is beneficial for transplant social workers to increase their knowledge on when and how organs are procured and allocated, as well as to best educate their transplant patients and families on how they will receive their gift of life.

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As part of our Patient Ambassador Series and to celebrate our Bounce Back Nominations being underway we will be catching up with our 2021 Bounce Back winners in a Bounce Back themed Webinar! We will be looking at their transplant journey, what inspired them to give back to the transplant community and why being a Bounce Back winner means so much to them.

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1. Learn how to be a good advocate for yourself
2. Identify what should be asked of your medical providers
3. Learn what does good patient education look like
4. Learn what is “teach-back” and how to utilize it with your medical team

This program will be most beneficial for patients who are waiting for transplant or were transplanted within the last year.

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Donate Life Living Donor Day is a celebration during National Donate Life Month that honors living organ and tissue donors for saving and healing lives! In 2021, more than 6,500 people made the decision to give one of their kidneys or a part of their liver to someone waiting for a second chance at life. 

Others gave the healing gift of birth tissue. Birth tissue includes tissues such as placenta and amniotic membrane. Grafts derived from birth tissue promote natural wound healing. 

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Virtual Symposium offering 7.5 continuing education hours for physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, transplant coordinators (CEPTCs) and chaplains.

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*Webinar Sponsored By Medtronic & Novartis*

We will be joined by the following speakers:
o Dr. Camille Kotton, Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital
o Dr. Helen Boucher, Chief, Division of Geographic Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center

We will discuss the following topics as they relate to the specific needs of Heart Failure (HF), LVAD, & Transplant Patients:
o Most recent information on vaccination & sequence of shots for high-risk HF community
o When various tiers of HF members are eligible for vaccination
o Known side effects for HF patients
o Outcome(s) to date on vaccinated HF patients
o Vaccine development & trial results

This webinar will also include an extended Q&A at the end for all attendees.

On January 26, 2021 a well-rounded panel of leading experts will answer the transplant community’s most pressing questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Everyone in the cystic fibrosis community is invited to join us for this virtual town hall, where a panel of experts will share the latest information on COVID-19 vaccines through the CF lens and answer the community’s questions. Register now and submit your questions for the panel.

Hosted by the National Kidney Foundation.

What do we need to know about vaccines? With highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccines on their way, Washington’s leading experts are here to go beyond the headlines and bring you the scientific facts. This live conversation will dig into how vaccines work, how they’re usually developed, and what is the same or different about the proposed COVID-19 vaccine.

Researchers from Fred Hutch will talk about their participation in Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials, while leading physicians will answer the “most-asked” vaccine questions they hear every day.

The time is now to address health inequities. Differences in health status, along with barriers to accessing healthcare, contribute to racial and ethnic minority groups experiencing increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19. Join us as top experts discuss how the pandemic highlights many long-standing disparities in health outcomes and offer up actionable steps that would protect all Americans where they live, work and play.

A number of transplant organizations from around the world continue their partnership to create a fourth educational webinar for the organ donation and transplantation communities. Our goal is to share experiences to date and respond to your questions about the impact of COVID-19 on organ donation and transplantation. COVID-19: Organ Donation and Transplant Town Hall #4 on December 3, 2020, 3:00-4:30 PM EDT

We are thrilled to bring our groundbreaking Patient Ambassador Program to you in a safe, virtual format. The third edition of this series will be hosted in partnership with the COVID-19 Transplant Coalition. 

This webinar will cover the following topics:

• Outcomes for transplant recipients who contract COVID

• How to stay safe as an immunocompromised patient. What activities are safe? What is not safe?

• The COVID-19 vaccine and the transplant community

Our discussion will feature patient ambassadors and medical professionals who can provide their unique perspective. After the panel discussion, we will open up the floor for Q&A. 

The November webinar will take place on November 19 at 1 pm MDT. While this is a live hosted event, all webinars will be recorded and accessible on our website, so you can watch at any time.

Holiday season is upon us, and many concerns loom over traveling and congregating for events and celebrations during COVID-19. Join us to learn what high risk, immune compromised individuals can continue to do to remain safe while being able to enjoy the holidays.

Dr. David D’Alessandro, Chief Cardio Thoracic surgeon at Mass General Hospital and Dr. Waleed Hassanein, Founder and CEO of Transmedic, will talk about how technology is making more organs available for transplantation, and how COVID-19 has impacted this newly burgeoning field.

With cases of COVID-19 on the rise this winter, it's important to have the latest facts about your risk for getting a severe case of COVID-19. This is an update to our Spring webinar. Topics discussed are: -who should be tested and when -advances in treating COVID-19 -safety for holiday get-togethers -whether vaccine treatments on the horizon are safe for YOU and more.. This is a video of a Nov. 10, 2020 presentation hosted by BMT InfoNet.

Recovery from Covid-19 can be a lonely, long process affecting all aspects of daily life, and it highlights the importance of having quality and affordable healthcare. Health challenges, financial hardship, social strain and access to treatments for aftercare should be considered during this journey. Please join as we discuss recent updates on symptom-based strategies, aftercare resources, and the importance of access to quality and affordable healthcare to help those recovering from Covid-19.

Join us! The HeartBrothers and CareDx present the second installment in a three-part webinar series “The Heart Failure Journey during COVID-19: What have we learned over the past 6 months” focused on helping Heart Failure patients navigate COVID-19.

We’ll hear from the Medical Director of the Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Program at Tufts Medical Center and a lead cardiologist from the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—both renowned Heart Failure Centers in Boston.

These two highly-regarded cardiologists will go in-depth about mechanical circulatory support devices and their use with Heart Failure COVID-19 patients.

Hosted by Emmy-award winning Erika Tarantal of WCVB-5 Boston, this hour-long webinar promises to be informative and enlightening to those interested in the intricacies of how COVID-19 affects those with Heart Failure.