Friday May 31, 2024
VENUE: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
Medical Education and Research Building
3500 N. Broad St, 3rd Floor (Room 317)
Philadelphia, PA 19140
This hybrid meeting will take place from 9a to 6p, with check-in and breakfast starting at 8a and a post-symposium reception from 6-7p. There is no cost for attending this event and up to 6 continuing medical education credits are pending from the National Kidney Foundation to be offered to attendees.
The meeting will also be recorded for later viewing - please be sure to register so you get access to the recording. The recording and all presentations will be posted to this site within a week of the event.
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Temple University
About the Symposium
Balancing the Scales: Addressing Obesity in Solid Organ Transplantation
There are over 103,000 Americans awaiting solid organ transplant. Most people are awaiting kidney, liver or heart transplants. Forty-one percent of patients on the kidney transplant wait list are classed as obese or severely obese using the current definition; 36.7% of those awaiting a liver transplant and 40.6% of the heart transplant wait list are also obese or severely obese.
This community-engaged symposium will bring researchers, clinicians, allied health professionals and patients together to review and discuss the current state of knowledge regarding obesity and solid organ transplantation and generate a patient-centered research agenda, with specific research questions, informed by patients’ lived experience. The symposium will also afford an opportunity for attendees to hear about the challenges and successes of patients who were asked to lose weight prior to solid organ transplant.
The symposium is open to anyone interested in attending, but specifically targets clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals (i.e., social workers, nutritionists, dieticians) in the fields of kidney, liver and heart transplantation and obesity as well as patients with obesity awaiting solid organ transplantation and patients' families and care partners. Members of the general public who are interested in learning more about strategies for pre-transplant weight management are also welcome to attend.
Keynote Speakers
Shivam Joshi, MD
Shivam Joshi, MD
Shivam Joshi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health
Rohit Soans, MD
Shivam Joshi, MD
Shivam Joshi, MD
Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery, Temple University Hospital
Associate Professor, Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Planning Committee
Serban Constantinescu, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Matthew Fasbinder
Patient Partner
Heather Gardiner, PhD, MPH (Chair)
Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Public Health, Temple University
Avrum Gillespie, MD
Professor of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Karen Greathouse, RD
Transplant Dietician, Chair of the Council of Renal Nutrition, University of Michigan Health System
Babak Orandi, MD, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Medicine, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health
David Sarwer, PhD
Director, Center for Obesity Research and Education and Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Public Health, Temple University
Rohit Soans, MD
Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery, Temple University Hospital and Associate Professor, Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Colleen Tewksbury, PhD, MPH, RD, CSOWM, LDN
Assistant Professor in Nutrition Sciences, Penn Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Megan Urbanski, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University
Marielle van Thuyne
Director of Programs, National Kidney Foundation Serving Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey