The Gift of Organ Donation

Lab Medicine Rounds

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

01:54 How did you get started in the field of histocompatibility?

03:44 Was that a mentor that helped you find this new role and pathway, or was there a particular patient that you took care of that opened your eyes to these other possibilities in lab medicine?

05:28 What are a few things that you think healthcare professionals in general should understand about organ transplantation?

07:51 Maybe for you, as someone who was practicing first in orthopedic surgery, and then making this transition to systems thinking, what has that been like and how do you navigate that now?

09:23 How does the laboratory and histocompatibility support organ transplantation? What kind of work happens behind the scene that enables this transplant to be as successful as possible?

11:53 Is the laboratory involved with the care of the transplant patient beyond the acute transplant? What does that look like?

13:09 What do you predict is on the horizon for histocompatibility?

14:50 How could somebody support organ transplantation?

16:47 Outro