3rd Annual MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute Symposium

MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute is proud to be hosting the 3rd Annual MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute Symposium (MGTI 2021). The educational program will consist of three parallel tracks navigating the diagnosis and treatment options for kidney, pancreas, liver, and intestinal disorders including those requiring a transplant.

These tracks include: Advances in Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Current Issues in the Care of Dialysis and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Patients, and Update on Liver Diseases, Intestinal Failure, and Transplantation for Children. Advances in Liver Diseases and Transplantation track will address the gap between best and current practices in order to provide the best care to patients, reduce morbidity and mortality, and reduce the burden of liver disease in the Mid-Atlantic region. Up-to-date information on liver disease and transplant topics relevant to community practitioners will be highlighted. We will focus special attention on tumors multidisciplinary management of tumors of the hepatobiliary tract as well. Through the Current Issues in the Care of Dialysis and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Patients track the content will examine kidney and pancreas transplantation with a special emphasis on the multidisciplinary approach in pre and post-transplant care of patients with renal dysfunction and post-transplantation. The third track, Update on Liver Diseases, Intestinal Failure, and Transplantation for Children will focus on topics that will be of interest to pediatric gastroenterology, primary care and allied health providers in the course of their interactions with infants and children with small bowel disease, parenteral nutrition, and chronic liver diseases including those likely to lead to transplantation.

1. Recognize the growing indications for liver transplantation, including alcoholic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
2. Analyze the strategies used to increase the donor pool and provide more patients access to life saving transplants.
3. Discuss the role of minimally invasive surgery in the management of patients with liver tumors.
4. Recognize the benefits of living donor liver transplantation.
5. Discuss the management of patients with acute and chronic liver diseases.
6. Discuss the role of intestinal transplant in the management of short gut syndrome.
7. Assess the recent changes in allocation policy and what this means for the patient waiting for a kidney transplant.
8. Review what we know and are now learning about the impact of COVID-19 on transplant patients.
9. Discuss the options available for living donors through paired kidney donation.
10. Present the new technologies now coming into use to better monitor transplant patients for early signs of rejection and graft dysfunction.
11. Recognize the pro’s and con’s of the use of belatacept in kidney transplant patients.
12. Learn about the potential benefits of pancreas transplantation for patients with type II diabetes.
13. Examine the pitfalls and guidelines to follow for patients needing dialysis in the immediate post-transplant period.
14. Recognize what types and characteristics of formerly uncurable abdominal tumors may now be treatable with various forms of intestinal and multiple organ transplantation.
15. Recognize the clinical presentations of the various intrahepatic cholestatic syndromes in infancy and childhood, differences from mechanical biliary obstruction, and understand the roles of medical and surgical therapies including transplantation and still investigational treatments.
16. Assess challenges to maintenance of parenteral nutrition in permanent intestinal failure, including medical and interventional pathways to indefinite central vein access.
17. Recognize newer indications for intestinal transplantation, shifts in demographics of transplant candidates, and future challenges to obtaining successful technical short-term and immunological long-term outcomes.
18. Recognize the evolving societal and economic obstacles to successful organ transplantation in the 21st century.
19. Identify the roles and responsibilities of members of the healthcare team involved in the collaborative care for transplant treatment.
20. Integrate a team-based approach in the care of transplant patients.

Physician $99
Resident or Fellow $50
Physician Assistant $50
Nurse Practitioner $50
Nurse $50
Allied Health Professional $50
Social Worker $50
Dietitian or Nutritionist $50       
Physical Therapist or Occupational Therapist $50
Pharmacist $50
Industry Professional $175

In support of improving patient care, MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.



Credit Designation

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 5.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.





Physicians: MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Nurses: This activity is approved for 5.5 ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacists: This activity is approved for 5.5 contact hour(s).  This learning activity is knowledge-based. The Universal Activity Number for this program is UAN# JA4008151-0000-21-019-L01-P.

Physician Assistants: MedStar Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.  

Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MedStar Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MedStar Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 clinical continuing education credits.

Dietitians or Nutritionists: CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 5.5 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.

Occupational Therapists: This continuing education program has been approved by the Maryland Board of Occupational Therapy Practice for up to 5.5 contact hours. 

Physical Therapists: This course has been approved by the Maryland State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for up to 5.5 continuing education hours.

American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC): The American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC) has approved this educational offering for up to 5.5 Category 1 Continuing Education Points for Transplant Certification (CEPTCs).

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Peter L. Abrams, MD
Director, Pancreas Transplant
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Matthew Cooper, MD
Program Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program; Professor, Surgery
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Nadiesda Costa, MD
MGTI
Ellicott City, MD

Jeffrey Dome, MD, PhD
Vice President, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders; Chief, Division of Oncology; Associate Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research
Children’s National Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Udeme D. Ekong, MD
Attending Physician, Pediatric Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Thomas M. Fishbein, MD
Executive Director, Director, Liver Diseases and Transplant Program, Professor, Surgery and Pediatrics
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Anna K. Frank, NA
Physician Assistant, Transplant
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Nathan E. Frenk, MD
Interventional Radiologist, Assistant Professor, Radiology
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Alexander J. Gilbert, MD
Transplant Nephrologist
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Juan Francisco Guerra, MD
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Assistant Professor, Surgery
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Jason S. Hawksworth, MD
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Chief of Robotic Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington , DC

Christine C. Hsu, MD
Transplant Hepatologist
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Reena C. Jha, MD
Radiologist, Division of Abdominal Imaging, Director of Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Imaging, Professor, Radiology and Surgery
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Tomoaki Kato, MD, MBA
Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant, Surgical Director, Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Professor, Surgery,
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, Edwin C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY

Stuart S. Kaufman, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation, Professor, Pediatrics
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Khalid M. Khan, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Potomac, MD

Alexander H. Kroemer, MD
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Scientific Director, Center for Translational Transplant Medicine
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospitall
Arlington, VA

Mercedes Laudano, Other
Adult Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Dietitian, Certified Clinical Transplant Dietitian
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Xuesi Lin, NP
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Fairfax, VA

Brian K. Lindner, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Columbia, MD

Jorge Marrero, MD
Transplant Hepatology, Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Professor, Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Cal S. Matsumoto, MD
Director, Small Bowel Transplantation; Director, Center for Intestinal Care and Transplant
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Kathleen M. Nilles, MD
Transplant Hepatologist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Odette N. Ntam, Other
Nurse Practitioner, Transplant
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Lauren T. Parrish, Other
Physician Assistant, Inpatient Transplant Nephrology
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Pejman Radkani, MD
Surgeon, Hepatopancreatobiliary and GI Surgical Oncologist, Transplant Surgeon, Assistant Professor, Surgery
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Alexandra D. Radomsky, LICSW, CCTSW, LICSW, CCTSW
Clinical Social Worker, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Amol S. Rangnekar, MD
Transplant Hepatologist, Assistant Professor, Medicine
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Rohit Satoskar, MD
Director, Medical Services , Medical Director, Liver Transplantation, Clinical Director, Transplant Hepatology
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Chelsea C. Sooy, Other, BSN, RN, CCTC
Director of Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Education
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Sarah A. Stone, Other
Regional Director, Physical Therapist
MedStar Health Physical Therapy
Washington, DC

Beje S. Thomas, MD
Transplant Nephrologist, Associate Professor, Medicine
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Arul M. Thomas, MD
Transplant Hepatologist
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Jessica U. Tyndall, CCLS
Child Life Specialist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Jennifer E. Verbesey, MD
Director, Living Donor Kidney Transplantation; Surgical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Gayle Vranic, MD
Transplant Nephrologist
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Emily R. Winslow, MD
Regional Chief, Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Nada A. Yazigi, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation; Pediatric Hepatology and Transplant Specialist
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

"Soo Youn" Yi, MD
Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Please contact Ada Guo at [email protected] for information on exhibiting at this conference.

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