2015-2017 - Advanced Renal Transplantation - Interactive Teaching Series


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Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Quality-of-Life

16.1 - Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Quality-of-Life: Where Do We Stand?

Presenter: S. Joseph, Kim, Toronto, ON, Canada
Authors: S. Joseph Kim

Biography

Dr. S. Joseph Kim is a staff nephrologist in the Division of Nephrology and co-director of the Kidney Transplant Program at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is the Past President of the Canadian Organ Replacement Register Board of Directors, Chair of the Information System Advisory Committee at Canadian Blood Services, Vice-Chair of the Data Advisory Committee at the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and the Associate Head of the Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Dr. Kim completed medical school, internal medicine residency, chief medical residency, and fellowships in nephrology and kidney transplantation at the University of Toronto. In 2008, he completed a PhD in epidemiology and a Masters in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests are in the areas of access to and outcomes of kidney transplantation using data from both centre- and population-based cohorts. His methodological interests include survival analysis and statistical models for causal inference.

Learning Objectives:

This presentation will review factors that have contributed to changes in long-term kidney transplant survival and their impact on quality-of-life after kidney transplantation, both vs. dialysis and among subpopulations of kidney transplant recipients (e.g., recipients of ECD kidneys).

  1. To provide an overview of kidney transplant outcomes in the modern era and compare it to prior eras.
  2. To examine factors that have contributed to changes in kidney transplant survival over time.
  3. To assess quality-of-life after kidney transplantation and examine factors influencing these measures.

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