Transplant Social Work Response to the Cures Act: Clinical and Ethical Implications **
Speaker: Panel Discussion
3:30-3:45pm
Break
3:45-5:15pm
Opening Notes to Transplant Patients under the Cures Act: Applying Lessons Learned **
Speaker: Steve O’Neill, LICSW, BCS, JD
5:15-6:00pm
Poster Session
Day #1
12:00-12:15pm
Welcome/Announcements
12:15-1:15pm
Keynote- Framing for Change: Using Communications to Advance Your Ideas
Speaker: Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor, PhD
1:15-1:25pm
Break
1:25-2:25pm
UNOS Update and Increasing Opportunities for Social Workers in Policy Development
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Cooper
2:25-2:30pm
Break
2:30-3:30pm
Transplant Social Work in the Age of Fake News: Responding to Disinformation Affecting the Health of Our Patients **
Speaker: Natasha R. Deal, LCSW, CCSW-MCS
3:30-3:45pm
Break
3:45-4:45pm
Breakout Sessions:
Workshop for the New Transplant Social Worker: Helpful Tools and Techniques / Speaker: Kay Kendall, MSW, LISW-S, CCTSW-MCS
We’re in this Together: Ways to Cultivate a Collaborative Relationship Between OPOs and Transplant Social Workers / Speakers: Ashlei Lind, LICSW and Rebecca Simon, LMSW
4:45-5:00pm
Break
5:00-6:00pm
Breakout Sessions:
Pediatric Transplant Social Work 101 (and 102 and beyond!) / Speaker: Molly Dugan, LCSW, CCTSW-MCS
Does the Psychosocial Evaluation for LVAD Exacerbate Structural Inequalities? Results from a Survey of Mechanical Circulatory Support Social Workers** / Speaker: Chris Knoepke, PhD, MSW, LCSW and Prateeti Khazanie, MD, MPH
When is Enough, Enough? A Case Study in the Ethical Considerations of Balancing Psychosocial Intervention and Patient Autonomy in Transplantation** / Speaker: Megan Homsy, LISW-S, CCTSW and Holly Brant, LICSW-SUPV
6:00-7:00pm
Networking with Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA), our Distinguished Level Sponsor
Day #2
12:00-12:15pm
Welcome/Announcements / Annual Business Meeting
12:15-1:15pm
The Impact of Non-Death Losses Related to COVID-19 in Transplant Recipients and Donor Families
Speaker: Talia Giordano, LCSW and Emily Jauregui, LPC, CT
1:15-2:15pm
Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Implicit Bias**
Speaker: Jenifer Riggins, LMSW, MPA
2:15-2:30pm
Remarks from Sponsor: COTA
2:30-2:40pm
Break
2:40-3:40pm
Breakout Sessions:
Mechanical Circulatory Support “MCS” Social Work: What You Need to Know to Get Started / Speaker: Kristin Malaer, LCSW, CCTSW-MCS
The Faces of Deceased Donors in our Nation: Through Data Analysis and Anecdotes / Speaker: R. David Robles, LCSW
Living Donor Liver Transplantation: An Overview ** Speaker: Dr. Andrew Barbas
3:40-3:50pm
Break
3:50-4:50pm
Breakout Sessions:
They Sure Do Grow Up Fast: Start a Transition Program in Five Essential Steps / Speakers: Taryn Shappell, LCSW
Post Traumatic Selection Disorder: A Tale of Two Social Workers / Speaker: Karen Weingart, LICSW, CCTSW-MCS
Working Together: Addiction Treatment and Liver Transplant / Speaker: Dr. Rosalyn Milenkiewicz
4:50-5:00pm
Break
5:00-6:00pm
Breakout Sessions:
LVAD and Autism: A Case Study / Speaker: Molly Dugan, LCSW, CCTSW-MCS
Liver Transplant Workup: Wilson’s Disease or Undiagnosed Schizophrenia** / Speaker: Jennifer Johannesson, LSW and Julia Stiffman, MSW, LSW
We Put Him in Foster Care. Now What?** / Speaker: Sarah Kinnier, LCSW and Denise Alloway, LCSW
6:00-7:00pm
Networking with Gold Level Sponsors
Day #3
12:00-12:15pm
Welcome/Announcements
12:15-1:15pm
Transplantation in Undocumented Children**
Speaker: Sarah Kinnier, LCSW and Taryn Shappell, LCSW
1:15-1:25pm
Break
1:25-2:25pm
Stress and Psychological Distress in Transplant Candidates, Recipients and Caregivers: Impacts on Outcomes
Speaker: Panel Discussion
2:25-2:35pm
Break
2:35-3:35pm
Breakout Sessions:
Using Clinical Practices of Narrative Medicine to Gain Psychosocial Insight into Needs of Adolescent Transplant Patients and Help Them Transition to Adult Care / Speaker: Susan Sample, PhD, MFA
Heart Transplant in HIV Positive Recipients / Speaker: Nirav Raval
3:35-3:45pm
Break
3:45-4:45pm
Breakout Sessions:
Does Peer to Peer Support in a LVAD Community Increase QOL and Decrease Hospital Utilization? / Speaker: Jacqueline Brennan, LCSW, CCSW-MCS
Living Donor Psychosocial Questionnaire Tool / Speaker: Darshit Bakhai, LMSW and Elizabeth Hooley, MSSA, LISW-S, CCTSW
Impact of Physical, Nutritional and Mental Health Frailty on
Outcomes After Lung Transplantation / Speaker:
Dr. Cynthia Gries
