Transplant Lecture Series

Henry Ford Transplant hosts a series of monthly educational lectures. Come hear our expert physicians, surgeons and visiting professors speak on groundbreaking transplant topics.

Upcoming Presentations

• March 16, 2026 - Dr. John Stanifer: Overcoming social barriers in kidney transplantation
• April 13, 2026
• April 20, 2026 - Dr. Vaidehi Kaza: Lung transplant
• June 8, 2026 - Drs. Bonagura and Slack, OPTUM
• June 15, 2026 - Dr. Nagai et al: ATC Abstract Presentations
• June 29, 2026 - Dr. Amit Mathur: Transplant Quality
• July 13, 2026 - Dr. Kymberly Watt: Selection of recipients with prior history of malignancy
• July 20, 2026 - Dr. Shrivastava and Annette Feeney: Update on dual organ transplant and kidney safety net listings
• August 17, 2026 - Dr. Anji Wall, Baylor: Ethics in transplantation and organ donation
• August 31, 2026 - Dr. Jacek Cywinski, Cleveland Clinic: Pulmonary hypertension in liver transplantation
• September 14, 2026 - Dr. Rana Awdish: “After Shock”
• September 21, 2026 - Dr. KK Venkat
• October 12, 2026 - Dr. Alangaden: Infectious Diseases Update for SOT
• October 19, 2026 - Dr. Seung Duk Lee, VCU: Robotic surgery for both liver donors and liver recipients
• November 16, 2026 - Dr. Holly Kerr: Transplant dermatology updates
• December 7, 2026 - Dr. Reena Salgia: Transplant oncology / HCC

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Past Presentations

• March 2026: Second Victim Effect: What is it and How to Heal?
  Presented by Lisa MacLean, MD

• December 2025: Updates in Intestinal Failure, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Intestinal Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. Yakir Muszkat

• October 2025: It Takes a Village: Bringing Advanced Heart Failure to the Attention of the Community
  Presented by Dr. Lindsey Aurora

• September 2025: Beyond Your 4 Walls: Innovating Our Way Into the Next Decade
  Presented by Dr. Joseph Scalea

• September 2025: Transplant Finance - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  Presented by Elizabeth Reed, RN, MHA

• July 2025: Transplant Research Presentations
  Presented by Ingrid Rocha, M.D. Candidate

• July 2025: Policy Meets Practice - Navigating ESRD and Transplant Legislation: Focus on IOTA
  Presented by Rohini Prashar, MD, MPH

• June 2025: Metabolic Liver Disease
  Presented by Humberto C. Gonzalez, MD, FAASLD

• May 2025: The Past, Present, and Future of Heart Transplantation
  Presented by Kyle Miletic, MD

• April 2025: Current Concepts and Trends in Pancreas Transplantation
  Presented by Jose Figueiro, MD, FACS

• March 2025: Normothermic Perfusion, Redefining Organ Preservation and Transplant Success
  Presented by Ahmed Nassar, MD

• February 2025: Eating Right for Life: The Role of Nutrition in Organ Transplant
  Presented by Thomas Pietrowsky, MS, RD, CCTD and Nancy J. Park, MS, RDN

• November 2024: APOL-1 Genetic Variance and Living Kidney Donation
  Presented by Rohini Prashar, MD, MPH

• November 2024: Transplant Heath Equity in Action: Moving Disparities Research from the “Bench to the Bedside"
  Presented by Dinee Simpson, MD, FACS

• October 2024: Robotics in Transplant Over the Past Two Decades
  Presented by Atsushi Yoshida, MD, FACS

• September 2024: Updates in Transplant Pharmacotherapy
  Presented by Mary Grace Fitzmaurice, PharmD, BCTXP and Adina Poparad-Stezar, PharmD, BCTXP

• September 2024: How to Overcome Size-Mismatch? The Promised Land for Small Graft in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
  Presented by Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD

• September 2024: Let’s call it Machine Perfusion: A New Era of Liver Transplantation
  Presented by Mark J. Hobeika, MD, FACS

• August 2024: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative: What is on the Horizon?
  Presented by William Chapman, MD, FACS

• July 2024: Current Status of Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases
  Presented by Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, FACS, FRCSC

• June 2024: Empowering Surgical Trainees: Innovative Approaches in HPB and Transplant Education
  Presented by Chaya Shwaartz, MD

• April 2024: Using Positivity to Build your Best Future
  Presented by Lisa MacLean, MD

• March 2024: Historical Landmarks in Solid Organ Transplantation
  Presented by Marwan S. Abouljoud, MD, FACS, CPE, MMM

• December 2023: Bariatric Surgery to Improve Metabolic Health and Access to Transplant in Patients with Obesity and Advanced Organ Disease
  Presented by Tayyab Diwan, MD

• December 2023: The Power of Happiness
  Presented by Lisa MacLean, MD

• October 2023: ACTNOW for Access to Transplant: Worth the Weight (Loss)
  Presented by Anesia Reticker, PharmD, BCTXP

• October 2023: Health Equity in Kidney Transplantation: Closing the Gap
  Presented by Rohini Prashar, MD

• August 2023: Quality Improvement in Solid Organ Transplantation
  Presented by Jonathan D. Williams, MD

• May 2023: Health Psychology and Transplant
  Presented by Antú Segal, PsyD, ABPP

• April 2023: Management of Alcohol-related Liver Disease: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
  Presented by Dr. Jessica Mellinger

• March 2023: Mental Health Perspectives on Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and the Essential Partnership of Hepatology and Psychiatry
  Presented by Dr. Gerald Scott Winder

• February 2023: Health Care-Associated Infection in SOT: An Update and Role of Diagnostic Stewardship
  Presented by Dr. Geehan Suleyman

• December 2022: Genomic Biomarkers in Heart Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. Palak Shah

• December 2022: Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. M. Cristina Segovia

• November 2022: Narrative Medicine, an Introduction
  Presented by Dr. Rana Awdish and Dr. Rosemary Weatherston

• November 2022: Pre-Transplant Immunological Evaluations: Current Practices and what Lies Ahead
  Presented by Dr. Gabriel Maine

• October 2022: Pediatric Kidney Transplantation, and Pediatric Liver Transplantation
  Presented by Amrish Jain MD, FAAP and Najeeb Zoubi, MD

• October 2022: Toward Personalized Care of Liver Transplant Recipients
  Presented by Josh Levitsky, MD, MS, FAST, FAASLD

• October 2022: Challenges of Allosensitization and Cross-Matching in Heart Transplantation
  Presented by Sean Patrick Pinney, MD, FACC, FAST, FHFSA

• August 2022: Pancreas Transplantation: From Evaluation to Discharge Home
  Presented by Jonathan Fridell, MD

• August 2022: Transplant Outcomes: Role of Microbiome
  Presented by Maria-Luisa Alegre, MD, PhD

• July 2022: Expanding the Donor Heart Pool using Normothermic Regional Perfusion: What does it take to make it happen?
  Presented by Nader Moazami, MD

• June 2022: Ergonomic Injury & Prevention A few Minutes Can Change Everything
  Presented by Dr. Sunil Geevarghese

• May 2022: Transplant ATC Presentations
  Presented by Dr. Nagai et al

• May 2022: High Reliability in Light of COVID 19
  Presented by Edward Pollak, MD, FASA, CPPS

• May 2022: The Story of an Unlikely Personal and Professional Transplant Odyssey
  Presented by Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, FACS

• April 2022: Alcoholic Hepatitis and Liver Transplantation
  Presented by Dilip Moonka, MD, FAST, FAASLD

• March 2022: Redefining the Management of Kidney Allograft Rejection
  Presented by Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD, MRCP, FRCP, DCH

• March 2022: Increasing Interpersonal Communication Efficacy: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Colleagues
  Presented by David A. Moore, PsyD

• February 2022: Leadership in Transplantation
  Presented by Marwan Abouljoud, M.D.

• December 2021: Lung Transplants for COVID-19 Patients: Our Experience & the Evolving Criteria
  Presented by Lisa Allenspach, M.D.

• November 2021: Current Status of Heart Transplantation
  Presented by Celeste T. Williams, MD, MS, FACC

• September 2021: From Education to Transplantation: Steps Toward an Integrated Care Approach
  Presented by Benjamin Hippen, MD, FASN, FAST

• August 2021: An Evidence-Based Approach to Stress, Anxiety and Burnout Prevention During COVID
  Presented by Julie Hamilton, ACSW

• August 2021: TI Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethical Care & Treatment of Prisoners Pre and Post-Organ Transplant
  Presented by Elizabeth S. Reed, RN, MHA, Jacqueline A. Roman, MSW, LMSW, and Patti J. Magyar RN, MSN, JD, CPC

• August 2021: Healing with Intention
  Presented by Dr. Rana Awdish

• August 2021: Partnering with Patients, Families, and Faith-Leaders: A Holistic Approach to Tackling Transplant Disparities
  Presented by Dr. Tanjala Purnell

• July 2021: Disparities in Academia: Looking without Seeing
  Presented by Arika L. Hoffman, MD

• May 2021: The Trifecta Model: Implementing the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative
  Presented by Milagros Samaniego-Picota, MD, FACP, FASN, FAST

• April 2021: Helping Health Care Workers Manage Burnout
  Presented by Lisa MacLean, MD, Moderated by Marwan S. Abouljoud, MD, FACS, CPE, MMM

• February 2021: Increasing Living Organ Donation and Transplantation in Minorities through a Culturally Targeted Transplant Program
  Presented by Juan Carlos Caicedo, MD, FACS

• December 2020: GOLM, the Landscape, the Opportunities: Working Together to Shape the Future
  Presented by Dorrie Dils, RN, BSN, MHA, CPTC

• November 2020: Caring for the Caregiver: Report from the Organ Transplant Caregiver Consensus Conference
  Presented by Michelle Jesse, PhD

• November 2020: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Learning to be an Ally and Anti-Racist
  Presented by Dr. Christopher Sonnenday, MD

• October 2020: COVID-19 and Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. Alangaden and Dr. Ramesh

• September 2020: RE: Alcoholic liver disease to include the clinical implications of alcoholic hepatitis on M&M and the potential role of liver transplant in this setting
  Presented by Michael Lucey, MD

• July 2020: DCD Liver Transplantation, National Utilization and Indiana Experience
  Presented by Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, MD, PhD

• June 2020: Immune Modulation in the Transplant Recipient
  Presented by Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, FACS

• May 2020: COVID-19 - Where are we now?
  Presented by George Alangaden, MD, Mayur Ramesh, MD, and Milagros Samaniego-Picota, MD

• February 2020: Bias in Transplantation: Discard of ’Usable’ Organs as Evidence for the Need for Better and More Consistent Decision Making
  Presented by Richard N. Formica Jr., MD

• December 2019: Pulmonary Hypertension in Solid Organ Transplantation
  Presented by Sara Hegab, MD

• November 2019: Approaches to Increase Access to Transplantation for Obese Patients
  Presented by Jayme E. Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, FAST

• July 2019: Transforming the Face of Reconstructive Surgery
  Presented by Eduardo D. Rodriguez, M.D., DDS

• July 2019: Access to Transplantation
  Presented by Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, MPH, FACS

• June 2019: Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy: Would Darwin Approve?
  Presented by Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS

• May 2019: ATC Staff Presentations Preview

• April 2019: Equity in Transplant: Who Counts, Counts
  Presented by Raymond Lynch, MD, MS

• January 2019: Uterus Transplantation
  Presented by Giuliano Testa, MD, FACS, MB

• November 2018: Mindful Strategies in Health Care: How Your Transplant Colleagues Have Integrated Mindful Practices into Daily Practice
  Presented by Henry Ford Transplant Team Members 

• September 2018: Donor Derived Infection in Solid Organ Transplantation: Minimizing Risk and Improving Outcomes
  Presented by Dr. George Alangaden

• August 2018: Innovation In Structural Heart Management
  Presented by Dr. William O'Neill

• July 2018: Obesity and Liver Transplantation: A New Epidemic
  Presented by Julie Heimbach, MD

• June 2018: Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation: Current Status in the Road Ahead
  Presented by Mark Aeder, MD

• May 2018: Pre-American Transplant Congress Workshop
  Presented by Dr. Shunji Nagai.
  
  Workshop Topics:
• C4d Staining and Graft Survival in Renal Transplant: Single Center Experience of C4d Staining
• Decreased Long-Term Survival with Antithymocyte Globulin Induction in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients
• Impact of MELD-Na Based Liver Allocation on Liver Transplantation Outcomes
• Opioid Use Trends after Liver Transplantation and the Factors Associated with Post-Transplant Opioid Dependence
• The Impact of Portal Vein Thrombosis Grade and Post-Reperfusion Flow Rate in Liver Transplant Outcomes

• March 2018: Ways to Build Resilience for Health Care Providers
  Presented by Lisa MacLean, MD

• December 2017: Expanding the Liver Donor Pool: Advances in Living Donor Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. Paul Greig

• September 2017: Overcoming Barriers to Maximizing Living Donor and Incompatible Kidney Transplantations
  Presented by Adam Bingaman, MD, PhD

• August 2017: Nursing Perspectives in Solid Organ Transplant
  Presented by Jennifer Milton, RN

• June 2017: Understanding Events in Organ Transplants: Lessons from the Molecular Microscope
  Presented by Philip F. Halloran, MD, Ph

• May 2017: Assertive Empathy
  Presented by Melanie Dodd, RN

• April 2017: Liver Transplant Immunology
  Presented by Timucin Taner, MD PhD

• February 2017: Long Term Mechanical Circulatory Support
  Presented by Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, MD, Surgical Director

• October 2016: Patient Safety: Trends and Patterns in Reports to UNOS
  Presented by David K. Klassen, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, UNOS

• October 2016: The Evolving Field of Gut Rehabilitation
  Presented by Kareem Abu-Elmagd, MD, PhD, FACS

• September 2016: Optimizing Your Living Donor Program
  Presented by Dianne LaPointe Rudow, ANP-BC, DNP, CCTC

• July 2016: Updates on Acute Liver Failure
  Presented by Dr. Robert J. Fontana

• May 2016: Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Solid Organ Transplantation
  Presented by Shatha Farhan, MD

• April 2016: Future Perspectives in Transplantation
  Presented by Alan Langnas, DO, FACS, FACOS

• February 2016: The New Ex-Vivo World: Extracorporeal Perfusion of Organs and Composite Tissues
  Presented by Paulo Fontes, M.D., FACS

• October 2015: Cases from Dermatology Clinic
  Presented by Dr. Kerr and Dr. Pritchet

• May 2015: Viral Load Monitoring of CMV/BKV in Transplantation: An Update
  Presented by Mayur Ramesh, MD

• September 2014: Innovation Through Intrapreneurship: From Academic Integration to Incorporation
  Presented by Michael Abecassis, MD, MSC, MBA, FACS, FRCS(C), AACS, FACPE

• July 2014: Graft-Versus-Host Disease/Graft-Versus-Leukemia: Recent Advances in Therapy
  Presented by Edward Peres, M.D.

• June 2014: Assessment and Accountability: The Challenges for Transplant Professionals
  Presented by David A. Axelrod, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S.

• May 2014: A Tale of Two Viruses: Recurrent Disease After Transplant
  Presented by Dilip Moonka, M.D.

• April 2014: Transplant Team Leadership
  Presented by Marwan Abouljoud, M.D., FACS, CPE, MMM

• March 2014: Communicating Bad News in the Context of Transplantation
  Presented by Anita Patel, M.D. and Anne Eshelman, Ph.D.

• February 2014: Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Optimal Treatment and Transplantation
  Presented by Gabriel T. Schnickel, MD

• November 2013: The Recent Evolution of Mechanical Circulatory Support and Its Impact on Cardiac Transplantation
  Presented by Dr. Joseph Rogers

• September 2013: Errors During Transplantation: How to Manage the Damage to your Program
  Presented by Abhinav Humar, M.D.

• July 2013: Fulminant Hepatic Failure due to Acetaminophen Overdose: Psychological and Ethical Issues
  Presented by Dr. Anne Eshelman

• June 2013: Portopulmonary Hypertension: A Curable Disease?
  Presented by K. K. Venkat, M.D.

• May 2013: Ethical Problems in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
  Presented by Sana Quddus, M.D.

• March 2013: Continuous Quality Improvement: Lessons Learned from the Kidney Transplant Program
  Presented by Dr. Dean Kim

• February 2013: To VAD or to Transplant? That is the Question
  Presented by Celeste Williams, M.D. and Hassan Nemeh, M.D.

• November 2012: Clostridium Difficile Infection: Epidemiology, Treatment and Transplantation
  Presented by George Alangaden, M.D. and Mayur Ramesh, M.D.

• September 2012: Donor-Derived Disease Transmissions: Epidemiology and Risk Mitigation
  Presented by Michael Ison, M.D.

• August 2012: An Analytic View of Systemic Health Care Cost Drivers
  Presented by Rob Webb

• July 2012: Improving Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Program-Specific Reports
  Presented by Dr. Ajay Israni

• June 2012: CMS Regulation of Organ Transplant Programs
  Presented by Thomas E. Hamilton

• May 2012: Organ Quality and its Implications to Allograft Function in Living Kidney Donation
  Presented by Dr. Emilio Poggio