North Carolina
Biannual Chapter Update
October 2007
President:
Lauren Kearns, MSN, RN-BC
lkearns@unch.unc.edu
Recent events
June 19, 2007
Psychosocial Evaluation of the Transplant Candidate: An Overview
Speaker: Benson Hoffman, Clinical Associate, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, DUMC.
Held at the Kirby Horton Hall, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Duke University Campus, Attendance = 25.
September 18th, 2007
“The Conundrum of Antibodies” Speaker: Tomasz Kozlowski, MD – UNC Abdominal Transplant surgeon, Durham, NC- Durham Hilton, 28 attendees.
Upcoming events
We are planning for our Annual Spring Symposium to be held in March or April – at this time we are trying to contact speakers to hold a CCTC review course to encourage certification. If this does not work out, we will hold a traditional type seminar.
November 13, 2007: Speaker: Dixon B. Kaufman, MD, PhD of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation; topic: The Evolution of Immunosuppression in Pancreas Transplantation Tuesday, at Nantucket Café and Grill, Chapel, NC 27517.
We plan to hold additional meetings in February and June of 2008, agenda currently in planning.