The objective of this presentation is to describe the cancer risks in transplant recipients and the challenges of Listing cancer patients for transplantation.
Challenges for candidacy and listing in patients with cancer - Germaine Wong, University of Sydney, Australia
Cancer in transplant patients: risk factors and mitigation - Rose Mary D. Attieh, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA
Adjunct Professor, Principal Consultant, Head, Department Of Nephrology
Amrita Institute Of Medical Sciences
Faridabad, Delhi NCR, India
Dr Urmila Anandh is the head of nephrology and oversees a busy nephrology department which is a part of a multi-organ transplant unit. Her area of interest is deceased donor transplantation and multi-organ transplantation. She has an active interest in onco-nephrology and is responsible for nephrology referral services in the busy oncology services (HSMT/CAR-T program) in the institute. She is an active member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and is part of many committees. She has been a social media ambassador for the TTS 2022 Congress. She is the Founder President- Women in Nephrology -India. She has more than 175 publications in peer reviewed journals including Transplantation etc.
Professor of Medicine University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Seattle, USA
Christopher Blosser, MD, is a Transplant Nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He leads the UW-Fred Hutch Center for Innovations in Cancer & Transplant (CICT) and related Cancer and Organ Transplant Clinic (COTC). He is a Councilor-at-Large of the American Society of Transplantation Board of Directors. Dr Blosser’s research is focused on understanding and mitigating the risks of cancer and optimizing the therapeutic interventions, including immunotherapies in the setting of organ failure and organ transplant. The COTC is the first-of-its-kind integrated multidisciplinary clinic to personalize cancer and transplant care using precision medicine. CICT includes a collaborative national patient-level registry including organ transplant candidates and recipients with cancer.
Director of Renal and Transplant Medicine Westmead Hospital, Australia
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology University of Sydney, Australia
Germaine Wong is a transplant nephrologist, Director of the Western Renal Service at Westmead Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her main area of research interests include: transplant epidemiology, cancer and chronic kidney disease, social ethics in organ donation and allocation, decision analytical modelling, health economics, population health research, and quality of life studies in patients with kidney transplants.
Transplant Nephrologist
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA
Rose Mary Attieh, M.D., is a transplant nephrologist at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. She earned her medical degree from the Lebanese University, in Lebanon, followed by an internal medicine residency at American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She went on to complete a nephrology and hypertension fellowship at American University of Beirut, Lebanon, a fellowship in general adult nephrology at University of Toronto, Canada, and a fellowship in kidney and pancreas transplantation at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Jacksonville, Florida.
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