Ajmera Transplant Centre's 2nd Annual Education & Research Conference
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In this episode, host Candice, takes you behind the scenes of the Ajmera Transplant Centre's 2nd Annual Education and Research Conference, to hear about incredible science, clinical, and research aspects of transplantation. Hear from the following: Samrat Ray: Expanding the transplant pancreas donor, using an ex vivo perfusion model. Adriana Roberta: Determining the impact of certain mismatches, which are located in the DQ Loco and the development of chronic rejection. Javier Solera: The severity of COVID 19 Omicron variant and Omicron specific immune responses in solid organ transplant patients. Lakshmi Kugathasan: Systematic review and network meta analysis research in induction therapy in heart transplantation. Bonnie Chao: Machine learning approaches to processing and interpreting ex vivo lung radiographs and predicting transplant outcomes. Dr. Laura Donahoe: Improving the quality of lung transplantation through a technical skills simulation program for surgical lung transplant fellows.  Christina Lam: Fibrinogen like protein 2 molecule and how it influences the development of thymic regulatory T cells.  Luckshi Rajendran: The Toronto management of initially unresectable liver metastasis for colorectal cancer  in a living donor liver transplant program. For more information about the Ajmera Transplant Centre's program, please visit www.uhntransplant.ca  For more information about Dr. Laura Donahoe's Take-Home Surgical Anastomosis Simulation Model, please visit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37202320/  If you have questions, please reach out to us at [email protected] The views and opinions expressed in this episode do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Toronto General Hospital or University Health Network.
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