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King's Health Partners Transplantation Program

22 OCTOBER 2024

We've been invited to share the news about a live learning opportunity from our friends in London: This Thursday, October 24th, they will be streaming a program on organ transplantation, as part of the King's Health Partners Academic Surgical Grand Round monthly series. This program is made available on the Microsoft Teams Meeting platform, thanks to Prof. Prokar Dasgupta and his colleagues.

From their announcement: The next event in the Surgical Grand Round schedule will take place on Thursday 24 October 5.30pm-6.30pm BST on Transplantation. The session will be chaired by Mr. Foad Rouhani Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute, and Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The topic update will be delivered by Mr. Ioannis Loukopoulos, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - “Robotics in kidney transplantation: The Guy’s Hospital Experience”

The Bulkley-Barry-Cooper lecture will be delivered by Professor Sandy Feng, Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Vice Chair for Research, University of California San Francisco - “Tolerance: Tradeoffs, Trials, and Tribulations”

Thu 10/24/2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT/US time)

We thank them for sharing this information, on what should be an informative 1-hour session.