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April 27, 2021
7 p.m. CDT
In this session, we will learn about the FDA approved vaccines currently on the market and answer your questions about these vaccines. We will also take a peek into what we know about life after vaccination for kidney disease patients and transplant recipients.
Learning objectives
- Summarize general information about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy.
- Understand how to apply the information learn to specific health needs to develop a vaccine action plan.
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Speakers
Patrick Dean, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Patrick Dean is the Surgical Director of the Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program and a Consultant and Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation Surgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and subsequently graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, AL. He completed his general surgery residency and fellowship in abdominal transplantation surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was appointed to the faculty at Mayo Clinic in 2006. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Dean is the program director of the abdominal transplantation surgery fellowship program and Co-chair of the Enterprise Transplant Informatics Workgroup. Dr. Dean’s clinical and research interests include kidney and pancreas transplantation, preemptive kidney transplantation, living donor kidney transplantation, transplantation for polycystic kidney disease and antibody-mediated kidney graft injury. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as a member of both the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation. He has been a member of the Membership and Professional Standards Committee of UNOS and the Fellowship Training Committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Currently he is the Chair of the Program Accreditation Committee of the ASTS Transplant Accreditation & Certification Council. In addition, he serves on the Clinical Policy Board of LifeSource and the Kidney Pancreas Committee of LifeSource.
Naim S. Issa, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Naim Issa is currently a transplant nephrologist and consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He had his training in internal medicine and nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and his transplant nephrology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. His main interests are kidney and pancreas transplantation, living kidney donation, and kidney paired exchange.