At this year's Virtual Kidney Transplant Symposium, attendees will learn about the continuum of care for patients who require a kidney transplant with an emphasis on:
The symposium will include presentations by members of the Temple Kidney Transplant Program and personal accounts from living donors and recipients.
Antonio Di Carlo, MD, CM, FACS, FRCSC
Topic – Introduction to Temple Transplant Team & Concepts of Transplant
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Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD, FACS, MBA
Topic – Nutcracker Syndrome
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Serban Constantinescu, MD, PhD
Topic – Pregnancy in Patients on Dialysis and After Kidney Transplantation
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Sunil Karhadkar, MD, FACS
Topic – Innovations in Transplantation: Getting A Kidney Transplant Faster
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Tatyan Clarke, MD
Topic – Metabolic Syndrome and Its Consequences
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Kevin Ly, PharmD
Topic – Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplant: How Many Pills Will I Have to Take?
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Diana R. Kline
Topic – Patient Panel
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Mohamed S. Alsammak, MD
Topic – Transfusion Care of Sickle Cell Disease Patients with Kidney Transplant
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Avrum Gillespie, MD
Topic – Health Disparities in Kidney Transplantation
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Ryan Ihlenfeldt, DNP, RN, CCRN
Topic – Living Kidney Donation
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Mohamed S. Alsammak, MD is Director of the Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine at Temple University Hospital and Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Clinical interests include transfusion medicine, apheresis, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, sickle cell disease/red cell exchange, patient blood management, hematopathology, and coagulation.
Kenneth Chavin, MD, MBA, PhD, FACS is Director of Abdominal Organ Transplant Program at Temple University Hospital, Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Research, Surgery at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. His specialties include pancreas transplant surgery, kidney transplant Surgery and liver transplant surgery.
Tatyan M. Clarke, MD, FACS, FASMBS is a bariatric surgeon at Temple University Hospital and Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Her clinical interests include metabolic and bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery, preventive care for obesity, metabolic diseases, and foregut surgery.
Serban Constantinescu, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine in the Section of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He earned his MD/PhD from Carol Davila University in Romania. He completed Nephrology and Transplant fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2011, he has been the Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Programs at Temple University Hospital.
His research focuses on pregnancy outcomes in solid organ recipients for female transplant recipients who have had post-transplant pregnancies and male transplant recipients who have fathered pregnancies. He is the co-investigator for the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, an ongoing research study focused on the effects of pregnancy on transplant recipients and the effects of immunosuppressive medications on fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
Antonio Di Carlo, MD, CM, is the Chief of the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program and a transplant surgeon at Temple University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital. Dr. Di Carlo performs kidney, liver and pancreas transplants and living donor nephrectomies. Dr. Di Carlo also addresses other surgical needs in transplant patients and patients with end-stage organ disease.
Adam Diamond PharmD, BCPS, FAST is a clinical pharmacy specialist in abdominal organ transplant. Dr. Diamond completed post-graduate training after pharmacy school in solid organ transplant at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. His clinical practice includes caring for kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant recipients. Dr. Diamond is also actively involved in various national transplant organizations and clinical transplant research.
Avrum Gillespie, MD is a nephrologist at Temple University Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and Professor, Center for Asian Health at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Clinical interests include chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation, peritoneal dialysis, hypertension, critical care nephrology, and acid/base disorders.
Ryan Ihlenfeldt DNP, RN, CCRN is Director, Clinical Transplant Services for the Abdominal Organ Transplant and the Living Kidney Donation program at Temple University Hospital. Ryan received his Doctor of Nursing Practice from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA. Over his 20-year nursing career Ryan has served in various clinical and leadership positions in the fields of critical care and transplant. Since joining Temple Transplant in 2022, his focus has been on improving efficiencies and patient experience, making it easier for our patients to navigate the transplant process. In addition, his work with the living donation program has focused on making living donor transplant an option for more patients.
Sunil Karhadkar, MD, FACS, is a transplant surgeon at Temple University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital. Dr. Karhadkar performs kidney, liver and pancreas transplants and living donor nephrectomies. Dr. Karhadkar addresses other surgical needs in transplant patients and patients with end-stage organ disease including parathyroidectomy and vascular access surgery for dialysis. He also focuses on outcomes research in transplantation and was recently highlighted in Nephrology Times for his study, “Obesity and Outcomes of Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation.”
Diana R. Kline has spent the past eight years as a dedicated, passionate educator and advocate for organ donation and transplantation. She currently works at Temple University Hospital conducting outreach to patients and physicians for the kidney and liver transplant programs. Prior to working at Temple, she spent five years at the Gift of Life Donor Program in Hospital Services as an educator in the field of organ donation to healthcare workers throughout Philadelphia and the state of Delaware.