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Hear from the experts.
Learn from the patients.
Understand the journey.

Leading clinicians and the patients they've treated share the real story of liver, kidney, and transplant care.
Nancy Ascher, MD, PHD
John Roberts, MD
Charles Rickert, MD, PhD
Sang-Mo Kang, MD
Shareef Syed, MBChB, MRCS, FACS, MAEd
Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA
Kendra Benz, Advocate
Talks will be held in the Mission Bay Conference Center from 1pm.

Expo Schedule

12:00 PM
Event begins

Activities, food trucks and booths open!

1:00 PM
Talks Begin

Introduced by Charles Rickert, MD.

4:00 PM
Event Ends

Talks

1pm – 3pm

Welcome and Introduction

Chris Freise, MD; Charles Rickert, MD

Practicing what you preach: A transplant surgeon living donor perspective

Charles Rickert, MD and/or Nancy Ascher MD PhD and Living Donor Pair, TBD

Perspective on the growth of donation

Charles Rickert, MD

Patient Journey

Cindy Zbin, organ donor

Living donation – where we've come from and where we're going

John Roberts, MD and Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD

Robotics in transplantation

Shareef Syed MD

The importance of living donation in pediatrics

Sang-Mo Kang MD

Living kidney donation

TBD

Life on the waitlist

Sacramento Bakery patient family (tentative – pending upcoming event)

Translating Sugar Science into Smarter Strategies to Support Liver Health

Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA

Life years gained by getting a living donor transplant versus staying on the waitlist waiting for a deceased donor; 10-15 years for LDLT and 17 years for LDKT

John Roberts, MD

Patient Journey

Jason McClunney, double organ donor

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