Transplant Ethics (Minneapolis, Aug 7-8)

Check out this 2-day conference on transplant ethics by the Mayo Clinic.

• Ethical and Societal Issues in Transplantation


• Organ Allocation Systems in the United States


• Ethical Challenges in Living Donation


• Ethical Challenges Presented by New Advances in Transplantation


• Case Discussion: Addressing Difficult Choices in Mechanical Cardiac Support


• Case Discussion: Addressing Misattributed Paternity in Living Donors


• Facing the Changing Ethical Landscape in Transplantation


• Case Discussion: Addressing Parental Decision Making in Pediatric Transplantation


• Case Discussion: Transplant Research Ethics - Using Combined Heart-Liver Transplant for Highly Sensitized Patients; How to Advance the Field in an Era of Organ Scarcity


• Case Discussion: Age of Consent: Can Adolescent Donors Truly Provide Informed Consent?


• Case Discussion: Challenges in Recipient Selection for Composite Transplant


• Case Discussion: Addressing the Best Use of Donor Organs in High Risk Retransplantation