Access to Transplantation Services in an Underserved Urban Setting

Target Audience:

A large number of patients in underserved communities, especially those with ethnic or minority populations, do not have equitable access to kidney transplantation. The importance of a local, easily available kidney transplant program goes beyond access to transplants and has a far-reaching impact on the community's health.

Barriers to establishing these programs include a need for more funding and especially a lack of understanding of the importance of a local program to the community at large. This educational activity addresses the most current data on the impact of preventive measures and societal trends that influence access to and outcomes of transplantation.

With this aim in mind, the following groups will be invited to participate in the symposium:

1. Transplant professionals (surgeons, physicians, coordinators, nurses)

2. Dialysis providers (nephrologists, dialysis nurses, dialysis technicians, administrators)

3. Patient groups (members of Brooklyn Kidney Club, kidney transplant candidates and recipients, patients with kidney disease attending Renal Services of affiliated programs)

4. Primary care providers, family practitioners, and other practitioners who care for kidney transplant recipients

5. Trainees (nephrology fellows, residents, students of medicine, public health, nursing, and allied health sciences)

Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. describe the impediments to improving access to transplants in underserved communities, including government, and should be able to develop a strategy to address these issues.
2. identify other ways of increasing access to transplants and how this might impact underserved communities, including removing surgical barriers, utilizing overlooked organs, educating regarding wellness, diabetes, drug interactions, and living donor education.
3. create strategies to overcome the above-mentioned barriers to transplantation and begin to implement them in their practice or community.

Accreditation & Designation Statements

The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing: Downstate is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA category 1 credit for the PRA for organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Social Workers: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0469

Host or Publisher SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Universtiy