The Australian transplant community is to be congratulated for embracing the need for Covid-19 vaccination and taking individual responsibility for personal safety measures. However, the planned easing of restrictions is posing new challenges, particularly in NSW and Victoria, and then more broadly as we all move around Australia and abroad. This important online WEBINAR meeting hosted by Transplant Australia for transplant recipients, waiting-list patients and their families, will address the questions that need answers.
Date: Wednesday 3rd November 2021
Time: 7.00 to 8:15 pm (SYD, VIC, TAS), 6.30pm (SA) QLD 6pm, 5.30pm (NT) and 4.00pm (WA)
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wpp0Rad5QvKXFpk4kT45zw
Key Topics
- Effectiveness of vaccinations in transplant recipients and waiting-list patients
- Need for and timing of booster vaccinations – the latest Australian advice
- The clinical and psychological toll of Covid-19 infection in Australian transplant recipients
- Emerging treatments for Covid-19 infection in Australia
- Challenges when the states and Australia open borders
- Importance of family, friends and peer groups
- Telemedicine and education by video conferencing likely to be here to stay
- Clinical research options in Australia
Facilitator: Toby Coates AO – Director of Transplantation, Royal Adelaide
Presenters:
- Prof Steve Chadban, Director of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Co-chair, TSANZ/AOTA Covid-19 Taskforce
- Prof Germaine Wong, Director of Renal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
- A/Prof Simone Strasser, Transplant Hepatologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and Past President of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia
Panel Discussion follows with the presenters and including:
- Professor Peter Macdonald AC, Director of Cardiac Transplantation, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
- Professor Greg Snell, Director of Lung Transplantation, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
If you have any questions for the panel, please email matty.hempstalk@transplant.org.au before the meeting.
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