LifeLink® Organ Donation Summit for Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers

Please share with all of your Physicians and all Advanced Practice Providers.

Your Medical Staff is Cordially invited to attend

LifeLink® Organ Donation Summit for Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers

November 9, 2018 

Registration: 7am

Program: 7:30am - 2pm

Atlanta Marriott Century Center 2000 Century Blvd. NE

Atlanta, GA 30345

Light breakfast and lunch provided. 

Registration is open https://www.lifelinkfoundation.org/events/organdonationsummit/

Keynote Speaker:

Thomas A. Nakagawa, MD, FAAP, FCCM

Director, Pediatric Critical Care Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital 

National expert in organ donation

Agenda Topics:

·      Challenges in brain death testing

·      Severe brain injury guidelines

·      Managing kidney function in acute brain injury

·      Updates in transplantation

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Speaker Highlights:

·      Wendy Wright, MD, JM Neurocritical Care Medicine, Emory University

·      Charles Richart, MD Director Trauma Medicine, Northeast Georgia Medical Center

·      Joanne Kuntz, MD Director of Palliative Medicine, Emory University

·      Jon Hundley, MD Abdominal Transplant Surgeon, Emory Transplant

Hotel Information:

For hotel reservations, please contact Michelle Burkett @ michelle.burkett@lifelinkfound.org or 229-292-0522.

CME Hours:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Emory University’s School of Medicine and LifeLink of Georgia. The Emory University School of Medicine is accredited by the AACME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Emory University School of Medicine designates this live activity for maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.