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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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