Articles tagged "African-American"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation Of Workplace Environment In Transplant Medicine: Harassment Should Not Be The “Reality Of Life”
M. Reilly¹, T. Branstool¹, S. Gregory¹, T. R. Pearson², T. S. Purnell³, G. Gunasekaran⁴, B. Kelly⁵, P. N. Martins⁶, C. M. Mobley⁷, S. M. Black⁸, E. C. Maynard⁹, D. C. Simpson¹⁰, M. B. Shah¹¹, O. Ekwenna¹, J. Locke¹², J. Ortiz¹
¹Surgical Transplant, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, ²Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁵DCI Donor Services, Nashville, TN, ⁶University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ⁷Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, ⁸The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁹Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, ¹⁰Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ¹¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ¹²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: The recent increase in publications detailing discrimination and harassment in the medical setting has brought to light potential impairments of medical professional health and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US: Have We Made Any Progress among Pediatric Candidates over the Last Twenty Years?
T. Purnell¹, S. Bae¹, X. Luo¹, A. Chen¹, D. Crews¹, L. Cooper¹, O. N. Bignall II², K. Covarrubias¹, D. Segev¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: A recent JAMA study demonstrated worsening disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among adults in the US. We examined twenty-year trends…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Race and Antibody-Mediated Injury on Outcomes after Early Subclinical Inflammation
E. P. Kasik, M. E. Seifert, M. Bernard, G. Agarwal, H. Fatima, R. Gaston, B. Julian, C. Kew, V. Kumar, S. Mehta, S. Ong, F. Rosenblum, G. Towns, R. B. Mannon
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: The impact of subclinical inflammation (SCI) on transplant outcomes has been variable, based on previous studies in homogeneous cohorts with relatively low immunologic risk.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparity In Access To Liver Transplant Larger In White Than Black Patients
K. Guo, J. Peipert, M. Abecassis, L. Zhao, D. Ladner
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Disparities in receipt of liver transplantation (LT) by gender and race have been documented, limiting access to this life saving treatment for particular patient…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration (ODR) at the Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV)
D. A. DuBay¹, T. Morinelli¹, D. Redden², N. Ivankova², I. Herbey³, C. L. Holt⁴, L. Siminoff⁵, M. Fouad², Z. Su⁶, M. Martin⁷
¹Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁷University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: To implement a sustainable, low cost DMV-based intervention that increased ODR of DMV patrons, and secondarily, increase ODR in African Americans (AAs).*Methods: Results from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparity in Pre-Kidney Transplant Work-Up
J. Buggs¹, H. Mohamed², C. Myer³, S. Lloyd⁴, E. Rogers¹, H. Pearson¹, J. Clement¹, D. Zunick¹, A. Kumar², V. Bowers¹
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁴University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the disparity, by race, for pre-kidney transplant work-up completion rates of referred patients.*Methods: We conducted a…
2019 American Transplant Congress
BK Virus Infection Disparity between Black and Other Races; Do Not Blame the Mycophenolic Acid
N. Raj¹, R. Spong¹, S. Jackson², V. Vakil¹, D. Keys¹, E. Finger³, S. Riad¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Disparities in kidney transplant outcomes between black recipients and others continue to exist. We sought to examine the impact of race and the differential…
2019 American Transplant Congress
ilearnKAS: An Animated Video to Educate African Americans about Key Concepts of Kidney Allocation
J. Narvaez, B. Dolph, T. Feeley, L. Kayler
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: ilearnKAS is a iteratively-designed patient-engaged mobile educational animated video developed with guidance from patients, providers, Self-efficacy and Multimedia Learning Theories designed for African American…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Race on Metabolic, Graft and Patient Outcomes after Pancreatic Transplantation
V. S. Rohan, S. N. Nadig, J. Mcgillicuddy, V. Rao, D. Dubay, K. Soliman, P. Baliga, D. Taber
Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Health disparities in African-Americans (AAs) are well-documented in kidney transplantation. There is a paucity of data regarding effect race in pancreas transplant (PTX) outcomes.*Methods:…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Race-Sex Effects on Immune Response Potential during Tacrolimus Minimization Therapy in Stable Renal Allograft Recipients
K. Tornatore¹, K. Attwood², R. Venuto³, H. Minderman⁴
¹University at Buffalo; School of Pharmacy, Buffalo, NY, ²Biostatistics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, ³University at Buffalo; School of Medicine: Nephrology, Buffalo, NY, ⁴Flow & Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: African American renal transplant recipients (RTR) exhibit more immunoreactivity to allografts which may contribute to chronic rejection. This study investigated race-sex influences on ex…