Optimizing Vaccination in Transplant Candidates and Recipients

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 14:00 to 15:00

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Q&A Handout: Covering speaker responses to questions not addressed during the live session.

After participating in this webinar, the attendee will be able to:

  1. Describe implementation and optimization of vaccination in the pre- and post-transplant settings.
  2. Review current recommendations for vaccination of the transplant population.
  3. Recognize the pipeline of vaccine development that impacts transplant patients including COVID vaccines.

Speakers:

  • Michael Green, MD, MPH • Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Deepali Kumar, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAST • Professor of Medicine, Transplant Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON

Moderator:

  • Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH • Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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AST would like to thank the Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP) and the Pediatric Community of Practice (PCOP) for recommending "Optimizing Vaccination in Transplant Candidates and Recipients" as a topic for the 2020-2021 T3 series. Learn more about AST's COPs at www.myast.org/cops.

Education Category: 
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T3: Timely Topics in Transplantion