2018 American Transplant Congress » Concurrent Session: Non-Organ Specific: Economics, Public Policy, Allocation, Ethics - 1

Date: Monday, June 4, 2018

Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm

Location: Room 4C-4

Session Type: Concurrent Session

Meeting: 2018 American Transplant Congress

4:42pm-4:54pm: The Stunning Rise in Organ Donors Deceased from Drug Overdose

N. Agrawal,¹ S. Rhazouani,¹ D. Reino,¹ D. McMichael,² C. McClenney,³ D. Sears,¹ K. Al Khalloufi,¹ S. Gebreselassie,¹ S. Ebaid,¹ M. Berho,⁴ X. Zervos,¹ C. Sheffield,¹ A. Tzakis.¹

4:54pm-5:06pm: The Financial Impact of the Opioid Epidemic on Kidney Transplantation Readmissions

L. Wilson, D. Taber, N. Pilch, R. Gilbert, Z. Elmaasarani, B. O'Brien, N. Patel, P. Mauldin, S. Ball, P. Baliga, J. Fleming.

5:06pm-5:18pm: Economic Evaluation of Contemporary Kidney Transplant Practice

D. Axelrod,¹ M. Schnitzler,² H. Xiao,² W. Irish,³ J. Tuttle-Newhall,³ S-.H. Chang,⁴ B. Kasiske,⁵ T. Alhamad,⁴ K. Lentine.²

5:18pm-5:30pm: Cost Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Positive Donor Kidney Transplantation for Hepatitis C Negative Recipients with Concomitant Direct-Acting Anti-Viral Therapy

G. Gupta, Y. Zhang, H. Kale, N. Carroll, R. Sterling.

5:30pm-5:42pm: Improved OPO Performance Drives Broader Organ Sharing in the United States

R. Carrico, B. Shepard, D. Klassen.

5:42pm-5:54pm: Demographic and Geographic Differences in the Proportion of Liver Disease Deaths Captured by the Transplant Waitlist in the United States, 2011 – 2015

K. Ross,¹ R. Lynch,² D. Goldberg,³ R. Patzer.^1,2

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