histocompatibility

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

01:54 How did you get started in the field of histocompatibility?

03:44 Was that a mentor that helped you find this new role and pathway, or was there a particular patient that you took care of that opened your eyes to these other possibilities in lab medicine?

05:28 What are a few things that you think healthcare professionals in general should understand about organ transplantation?

07:51 Maybe for you, as someone who was practicing first in orthopedic surgery, and then making this transition to systems thinking, what has that been like and how do you navigate that now?

09:23 How does the laboratory and histocompatibility support organ transplantation? What kind of work happens behind the scene that enables this transplant to be as successful as possible?

11:53 Is the laboratory involved with the care of the transplant patient beyond the acute transplant? What does that look like?

13:09 What do you predict is on the horizon for histocompatibility?

14:50 How could somebody support organ transplantation?

16:47 Outro

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:05 How did you first get interested in supporting organ transplantation? 

04:53 What are the organs that we can transplant?

06:00 When we are at the Department of Motor Vehicles, we can register as a donor and make our wishes known to our family, is that right?

07:03 If people are interesting in donating a kidney, for example, do they reach out to their local hospital and let them know they are interested in being a donor?

08:50 How does your work in the Histocompatability laboratory, how does it support transplantation? 

10:57 Can you give our audience kind of a flavor of how does this work to do this kind of dance to match donor and recipient and have a successful transplant? 

13:11 What’s on the horizon for HLA and histocompatibility in the next couple of years?

18:30 The ability for us to identify a patient, these patients who could not get a transplant are now able to get the transplant because of these improvements in the laboratory.

20:01 Outro

Resources: 

• National Marrow Donor Program
• United Network for Organ Sharing 

Successful pig to human transplant articles:

• What the successful test of a pig-to-human kidney transplant means | Science News
• Kidney Grown in Pig Successfully Transplanted Into Man (webmd.com)
• A pig kidney has been transplanted into a human successfully for the first time : NPR
• Progress in Xenotransplantation Opens Door to New Supply of Critically Needed Organs | NYU Langone News
• Startup looks to begin pig-to-human organ transplants by 2022 - Big Think 

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