Organ procurement from deceased and living donors
- Donation after brain death
- Donation after cardiac death
- Living kidney and liver donation
- Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy
Evaluation of the transplant donor
- Understanding primary considerations of donor and organ quality
Evaluation of the pre-kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant candidate
Care of the pre-transplant liver candidate
- Inpatient management of acute liver failure and decompensated chronic liver disease
- Pre-transplant management of HCC
Transplant Operations
- Back-table organ preparation of the kidney, liver, and pancreas
- Ex vivo reconstruction of complex anatomy
- Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation
- Adult and pediatric patients
Inpatient care of peri- and post- transplant recipients
- Assessment and management of allograft dysfunction
- Management of post-transplant medical and surgical complications
Immunosuppression
- Understanding basic mechanisms of immunosuppression
- Ability to appropriately prescribe (individualized) regimens for induction, maintenance, and rejection immunosuppression
Basic understanding of expected outcomes after kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation
- Awareness of how donor, recipient, transplant, and post-transplant factors affect outcomes
Histocompatibility and crossmatching
Outpatient follow-up of transplant recipients
Familiarity with ethical dilemmas of transplantation
Transplant Pathology