FRIDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 8:00 17:15 Presymposium Session Pharmacology for Transplant Nurses 8:00 12:15 Morning Presymposium Session Jennifer M. DeVos, PharmD BCPS; Samir Patel, PharmD BCPS; Timothy J. Humlicek, PharmD BCPS; Shelly Kim ParmD RPh 11:00 16:15 Hospital Tour 12:15 13:00 Presymposium Lunch 13:00 17:15 Afternoon Presymposium Session Lecia Snell, MSN RN CCTN, Rachael Bedard, PharmD RPh; Beverly Kosmach Park, DNP; Matthew Sigafus, MSN RN CCTN ACNP-BC 18:00 20:00 Opening Reception with Exhibits and Posters SATURDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 7:00 8:00 Breakfast with Exhibits and Posters 8:00 8:30 Opening Ceremonies 8:30 9:30 Keynote James B. Young, MD, Professor of Medicine & Executive Dean, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine 9:30 10:00 Break with Exhibits and Posters 10:00 11:00 Invited Speaker Dr. A. Osama Gaber, MD FACS 11:00 12:00 Invited Speaker Cheryl E. Vaiani, PhD 12:00 13:30 Lunch with Exhibits and Posters 12:30 13:20 SIG Sessions 13:30 14:00 Concurrent Sessions Track: APN Transitioning to Adult Transplant Care: Tool Design, Validation, and Implementation in Advanced Practice (101) Beverly Kosmach-Park, DNP RN FAAN Track: Patient Safety One World of Caring: Addressing the Needs of International Transplant Patients (102) Jeanne Cooper, MPH RN Track: Staff Nurse Transplant Technology: Growing Organs Using Stem Cells AND Regenerative Medicine (103) Nancy L. Stitt, BSN RN 14:05 14:35 Concurrent Sessions Track: APN The Fast Track Patient: A Nurse Practitioner View of the Post Op Liver Transplant Patient (104) Amanda Chaney, MSN ARNP FNP-BC Track: Staff Nurse Inpatient Post Organ Transplant Education Improvement Through the Use of Teach-Back (105) Tera L. Gross, DNP RN; Brenda A. Kochevar, BSN RN CMSRN; Kevin M. Praska, BSN RN CCTC; Stephanie P. Mann, BSN RN Implementation of a Hospital-Wide Transplant Educational Program: The Journey to Providing the Transplant Nurse with Educational Opportunities to Equip Them to Offer Safe and Exceptional Care for the Solid Organ Transplant Patient (106) Clarissa Welbaum, MSN RN CCNS CCTN
14:40 15:10 Concurrent Sessions Track: APN Nutritional Considerations for the Patient with Cirrhosis (107) Amanda Chaney, MSN ARNP FNP-BC Track: Patient Safety Strategies to Improve Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality (108) Rebecca L. Farrell, RN BSN CCTN Track: Staff Nurse Development and Implementation of Comprehensive Strategies to Improve Skin and Wound Management (109) Michelle Trinh 15:10 15:40 Break with Exhibits and Posters 15:40 16:10 Concurrent Sessions Determinants of Internet Use in an Urban Transplant Center: Characterizing the Digital Divide (110) Mark Lockwood, MSN RN CCRC; Christopher S. Lee, PhD RN FAHA Can Transplant Patients Teach Back? (111) Caitlin Fryman, RN BSN Track: Staff Nurse Law and Order for Nurses: Five Tools to Protect Your License and Your Livelihood (112) Lorie A. Brown, JD MN RN 16:15 16:45 Concurrent Sessions Track: Patient Safety Viatamin D Deficiency in Patients with Liver Disease: Current Practice and Outcomes (113) Amanda Chaney, MSN ARNP FNP-BC; Michael Heckman; Nancy Diehl; Andrew Keaveny, MD FRCPI Developing an Educational Program for Ward Nurses to Teach Patients and Their Families About Posttransplant Medication In Order to Enhance Confidence and Compliance (114) Moira Perrin, RGN BSc Hons; Julie Cantrill, RGN BSc Hons; Amanda Smith; Thamara Perera, MD FRCS; Sara Bardell Track: Leadership Submitting Abstracts for the ITNS Symposium: Pitfalls and Pearls (115) Sandra A. Cupples, PhD RN 16:50 17:20 Concurrent Sessions Track: Patient Safety Improvement to Quality of Care for Lung Transplant Patients and Their Families When Approaching the Last Year of Life (116) Jane Everitt, BSc RN; Anna Reed; Humaira Jamal; Karen Collis Track: Patient Safety McGill University Health Center: Team Focus to Find and Eliminate Those Bugs (117) Valerie Cass, BScN MBA; Norine Heywood, BScN MScN(A) RN; Vanessa Lopez, RN; Alejandro Ramirez, RN; Beverle Henry, RN; Irene Gyimothi, DEC Track: Leadership Are You Ready to Take Your Career to the Next Level? Guiding Your Doctoral Pursuits to Meet Your Career Goals (118) Laura Taylor; Mary Terhaar; Hayley Mark; Angela McNelis 17:30 18:30 The Transplantation Society (TTS) Women in Transplant Networking Cocktail Session
SUNDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 7:00 8:00 Breakfast with Exhibits and Posters 8:00 8:30 Concurrent Sessions Track: APN Pre-Transplant Interventions to Prepare for the Best Possible Posttransplant Outcomes (201) Michelle James, MS RN CNS CCTN Track: Leadership World Transplant Games, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011 and XIX WTC, Durban, South Africa (202) Helen Currier, BSN RN CNN CENP Implementing Home INR Monitoring for Patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (203) Gemma Edwards, BS The Emotional Rollercoaster of Participating in Immunosuppression Withdrawal (204) jane l. charette, BSN RN CCRC 8:35 9:05 Concurrent Sessions Track: APN Advanced Practice Nurses as Gatekeepers in Transplant Medicine (205) Complimentary Therapies in Pain Management for Patients with Cirrhotic Liver Disease: Utilization and Implementation of Hydrotherapy and Music Therapy (206) Tenzin Namgyal Depression Symptoms and Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy Impact Quality of Life in Patients After Heart Transplantation (207) Christiane Kugler, PhD MSN; Ina Einhorn, BSN; Christoph Bara, MD; Thea von Waldthausen, MD; Burkhard Haastert, PhD; Christine Fegbeutel, MD; Axel Haverich, MD Track: Living Donor Does Team Work Directly Impact Patient and Nurse Satisfaction? (208) Jennifer Nguyen, BSN 9:10 9:40 Concurrent Sessions Track: Evidence Pocket Path : A Smartphone Intervention to Promote Self-Management Behaviors After Lung Transplantation (209) Annette De Vito Dabbs, PhD RN ACNS-BC; Brad A. Myers, PhD; Mi-Kyung Song, PhD RN; Ruosha Li, PhD; Jill A. Aubrecht, MSN RN; Rachelle Zomak, MSN RN; Mary Amanda Dew, PhD; Mohammad Alrawashdeh, MSN RN Track: Patient Safety Bingo and HCAHPS? How It Works and Why (210) Erin Massey, BSN RN CCTN; Geoff Hood, BSN RN; Margaret Heilman, BSN CCTN 10:10 10:40 Concurrent Sessions Threshold Based Exercise Outcomes for Heart Transplant Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation (211) Jennifer Evans, BSN BS RN; Pedro T. Recalde, MS MBA MHA; José G. Diez, MD FACC FSCAI; Heather Myers, BS; Christan N. Smith, BS Sexual Concerns Among Simultaneous Kidney Transplant Recipients (212) Rebecca Muehrer, PhD RN; Hans W. Sollinger, MD PhD 9:40 10:10 Break with Exhibits and Posters Implementation of a 12-Week Transplant Certification Pathway on an Acute Care Solid Organ Transplant Unit (213) Brittany Williams, MSN RN; Katherine Johnson Track: Leadership 2 X 2 = 10: The Multiplier Effect in Nursing Leadership (214) Sandra A. Cupples, PhD RN The Use of Patient Support Groups to Provide Support and Improve Quality of Life in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices (215) Rachel Hards, RGN; Melissa Sanchez; Gemma l. Edwards, RN; Michael Hedger, RN Emergence of Hepatitis E (216) Matthew Sigafus, MSN CRNP
10:45 11:15 Concurrent Sessions Transplant Education in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula: A Needs Assessment (217) Annette Cerrato, PhD RN CCTC; E. Emerson, Ea DNP APRN CNE; Peter L. Flom, PhD The Influence of Health and Self-Management on Rehospitalization After Kidney Transplantation (218) Louise Maasdam; Monique Cadogan, RN; Marleen Van Buren; Mirjam Tielen; W. Weimar; M.G.H. Betjes; Emma K. Massey Cardio-Renal Syndrome: Bench to Bedside Perspective (219) Ethnicity Differences from Evaluation to Successful Listing for Liver Transplantation (220) Elaine Lander, MSN CRNP; Ellen Daley, BSN RN CCTC; Phyllis A. Dowling, MSN CRNP CCTC; Angela Miller, MSW LSW RN; Gordon Nicholson; Edward Trouse, MRN RN; Ashokkumar Jain, MD 11:20 11:50 Concurrent Sessions Track: Leadership 12:30 13:00 Poster Presentations 13:20 13:50 Concurrent Sessions Track: Leadership 13:55 14:25 Concurrent Sessions An Evaluation of the Health Status of Renal Transplant Recipients Versus End Stage Kidney Disease Patients on the Deceased Donor Waiting List: A Pilot Study (221) Michaela Kelleher; Pauline Paul; Grace Wong; Debbie Pugh; Kathleen McNamara The Multigenerational Nursing Workforce Revisted: How to Recruit/Retain the Best and Motivate/Manage the Rest (222) Sandra A. Cupples, PhD RN Essential Transplant Immunology (223) Defying the Odds: Surviving Graft Versus Host Disease, Hepatitis C Infection, and Acute Cellular Rejection Status Post Simultaneous Liver/Kidney Transplantation (224) Patrice Pfeiffenberger, BSN RN 11:50 13:20 Lunch with Exhibits and Posters Use of HLA Selected Platelet Transfusion Liver Transplant Recipients with Severe Thrombocytopenia from HLA Antibodies (225) Ellen Daley, BSN RN CCTC; Phyllis A. Dowling, MSN CRNP CCTC; Elaine Lander, MSN CRNP; Edward Strouse, MRN RN; Ashokkumar Jain, MD The Quality Relationship Between the Transplant Center and the Integrated Care Delivery System (226) Celia Dunn Clarke, MSN RN Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: An Accelerated Form of Coronary Artery Disease (227) Disease Transmission in Donated Organs (228) Caroline Acker, MSN BA BSN Intravenous Mycophenolate Mofetil and Progressive Delayed Introduction of Tacrolimus After Liver Transplantation Preserves Renal Function and Reduces Rejection (229) Elaine Lander, MSN CRNP; Edward Strouse, MRN RN; Ellen Daly, BSN RN CCTC; Phyllis A. Dowling, MSN CRNP CCTC; Ashokkumar Jain, MD; Andreas Karachristos, MD PhD ALPHA-1-AA, CN Type 1, MSUD, PKU, and UCD: OMG, What Do All of Those Letters Mean, and Why Do They Need a Liver Transplant? (230) Christine Crytzer Divens, MSN RN CPN Determinants of Recurrent Smoking Behavior After Lung Transplantation in Patients with Emphysema (COPD): A Cross-Sectional Study (231) Veronique Schaevers, MSN; Fabienne Dobbels; Annemie Schoonis, RN DOD-VA Collaboration to Provide Transplants to Veterans (232) Caroline Acker, MSN BA BSN
14:30 15:00 Concurrent Sessions Track: Patient Safety Human Animal Bond for Better Transplant Outcomes (233) Cynthia L. Russell, PhD RN ACNS-BC FAAN The Untruths (and Evidence) Regarding Bone Mineral Density Post Liver Transplantation (234) Ann H. Busch, MS RN ACNS-BC-PP FAAN 15:30 16:00 Concurrent Sessions Fractured Lines: The Long Wait on the National Urgent Heart Transplant List (235) Gemma Edwards, BS Living Donor Transplantation (236) Michelle James, MS RN CNS CCTN; Megan Lavaty, MS RN 15:00 15:30 Break Research, Quality Improvement, and IRB for Dummies (237/241; 1 hour) Jessica Saucier, BSN RN CCTN; Erin Fassett, MBA MSN RN; Angie Roy GVHD 101: Understanding Graft Versus Host Disease (238) Patrice Pfeiffenberger, BSN RN 16:05 16:35 Concurrent Sessions Track: Living Donor 16:40 17:10 Concurrent Sessions Track: Organ Donation Track: Living Donor- Liver Track: Living Donor- Liver/Kidney Psychological Resources in Term of Presence, Depression, and Level of Distress Among Heart Transplant Recipients (239) Irena Milaniak, MA RN; Ewa Wilczek Ruzyczka Taking Patient Care to the Community Through Outreach Clinics (240) Sandra Feldkamp, RN BSN Research, Quality Improvement, and IRB for Dummies (237/241; 1 hour) Jessica Saucier, BSN RN CCTN; Erin Fassett, MBA MSN RN; Angie Roy Confusion Post-Liver Transplantation: Delirium, Continued Hepatic Encephalopathy, or What? (242) Michelle James, MS RN CNS CCTN; Annie Doyle, BSN RN CCTN Getting Used to Being a Patient: The Post-Operative Hospital Experience of Living Liver Transplant Donors (243) Rick O Connor, BSN RN CCTN; Janet Parkosewich, RN DNSc; Jeffery Curran, MA MBA BSN RN CCTN; Katarzyna Cartiera, BSN RN CCTC; Tish Knobf, PhD RN FAAN AOCN Pregnancy Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation with Exposure to Tacrolimus (244) Lisa Coscia, BSN RN CCTC; Carolyn McGrory, MS RN; Vincent Armenti, MD PhD Attitudes Towards Organ Donor Advocacy Among Swedish Intensive and Critical Care Nurses: Summaries of a Doctoral Dissertation (245) Anne Floden, PhD RN CETC TPMC; Anna Forsberg, PhD RN Hepatic Vein Pressure Gradient (HVPG) Measurement in Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases: Nursing Implications (246) Gaetano Pollicino; Maurizio Macaluso; Anna Di Maggio; Attilio Rospino Worldwide Survey of Live Liver Donor (LLD) Evaluations (247) Denise S. Morin, MSN RN CCTC Increasing Public Awareness of Living Donation: A Single Center Qualitative Survey of All Liver and Kidney Living Donors Over a Decade (248) Judy Gierlach, RN; M. Katherine Dokus, MPH; Kristin N. Kelly, MD; Venkatesh Abishek Sharma; James R. Rogers, BA BS; Timmy Li, BA; Nene Ugoeke, MD; Mark S. Orloff, MD; Randeep Kashyap, MD 20:00 22:00 Social Event Cakes and Canvases
MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 6:45 8:15 Non-CE Symposium sponsored by Astellas 8:20 10:20 International Panel Gemma Edwards, BS with honors; Hongxia Liu, PhD RN; Pedro IV L. Mejia, RN An international perspective on the effect of regulatory bodies on the care of patients, patient outcomes, and transplant nurses. 10:20 10:30 Break 10:30 11:15 Invited Speaker Kara Mangold, MS RN-BC CCTN 11:15 12:00 Research Award Presentations 12:00 13:30 General Assembly/Business Membership Meeting with Lunch and Chapter Raffle 13:30 14:00 Concurrent Sessions Impact of Time of Transplant on Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Among Liver Transplant Recipients (301) Penny Keaney, MA BSN RN CCTC Track: Pediatrics Pediatric Abo-Incompatible Heart Transplantation: An Overview (302) Jason Hopper-Cruz, BSN RN Track: Hot Topic Transplant Technology: Growing Organs Using Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (303) Nancy L. Stitt, BSN RN 14:05 14:35 Concurrent Sessions Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Chinese Version of Post-Liver Transplant Quality of Life Questionnaire (304) Hongxia Liu, PhD RN; Xiao Peng Track: Pediatrics Improving the Discharge Experience with the Use of ipads in the Pediatric Transplant Population (305) Paula Eicker, MSN RN; Pam Kachmar, RN CPN Track: Organ Donation Hot Topic Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Using Innovative Technology to Permit Acceptance of Lungs at Greater Distance or of Marginal Quality (306) Randall Wisdorf, BSN RN CPTC; Michael Petty, PhD RN CCNS ACNS-BC; Diane Elmajri BSN RN CCTC; Mary Jo Larson, BSN RN CCTC; Roberta Lindgren, BSN RN CCTC 14:40 15:10 Concurrent Sessions Pregnancy Outcomes After Liver Transplantation (307) Lisa Coscia, BSN RN CCTC; Carolyn McGrory, MS RN; Vincent Armenti, MD PhD Track: Living Donor Kidney Track: Composite Hot Topic The Decision to Become a Living Kidney Donor: Considering Risks and Benefits with Emphasis on Gift Giving, Self Perception, and Self Esteem (308) Laura Taylor; Aman Sahota; Marie T. Nolan Constructing a Reconstructive Program (309) Lynette Fix, RN BAN CCTC 15:10 15:30 Break 15:30 16:30 Patient/Family Presentation Todd and Tara Storch, Taylor s Gift Foundation 16:30 17:00 Closing Ceremonies