Transplantation

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Robert Brown, MD

While there is a long list of patients awaiting organ transplants and an increase in the number of living donors, there are also many legal and ethical issues to be grappled with. In this segment, host Mark Nolan Hill, MD talks to transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Brown about legal and ethical challenges surrounding living donors.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Robert Brown, MD

In this segment our guest, Dr. Robert Brown walks through the living organ donation process with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill. What is the surgical procedure for the donor and recipient? Join Us.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Robert Brown, MD

Has a patient asked you yet, your medical opinion regarding their decision to become a living donor? The number of living liver donors is growing each year. The ability to give the gift of life to another is appealing to many but what are the costs? What are the risks? What are the health requirements? Join host Mark Nolan Hill in a discussing with Dr. Robert Brown about what is involved in becoming a living liver donor.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Elizabeth Tieman, MD

Work-life balance: how many of us can say we have it, let alone come close to having it? Board-certified radiologist Dr. Betsy Tieman is one healthcare professional who can say she achieved work-life balance by leaving private practice where she was working 14 hours a day to take advantage of locum tenens work, which also enabled her to train and compete in triathlons.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: J. Lee Nelson, MD

Microchimerism may have a role to play in evolving theories in transplantation biology, HIV, Alzheimer's disease and even breast cancer. Dr. Nelson discusses some cutting-edge hypotheses and strange observations in each of these fields.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis examines the ethical issues of several modern organ donation methods, including paired exchange. Referenced and discussed in this discussion is the Norwood Living Organ Donation Act passed recently, and the challenges and controversies this development has brought. The interview concludes with a critical analysis on matching donor website organizations, raising the question on whether these resources ultimately prevent a level playing field for waiting organ recipients.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis examines the use of "marginal" or "expanded" donors in the United States, and the various factors behind increasing utilization of these potential donors who would otherwise be ineligible from their own medical problems or comorbidities. The interview then transitions towards some of the ethical issues inherent in "presumed" consent, a hospital policy recently accelerating throughout much of Europe.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis discusses his work in spurring changes within the Chinese transplant programs to institute more ethically sound transplant policies. Currently there are approximately 120 accredited transplant centers in China, a far-cry from the 500 loosely certified centers operating only a few years ago. The interview follows with a discussion on the end of "transplant tourism" and the various coercive measures exacted to make organ donors of Chinese prisoners.