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ASN/ERA/ISN Kidney Ethics Webinar Series: Equitable Living Kidney Donation: Progress and Perils
Presenting and learning from Martha Gershun’s living kidney donation to a stranger in the USA, panelists (including a bioethicist, a nephrologist and a transplant surgeon) will discuss barriers to living kidney donation and the ways such barriers may create or exacerbate inequity. Taking into consideration the bioethical history of these barriers as well as different contexts across the globe, panelists will propose recommendations for transplant professionals to reduce these barriers and thereby improve living kidney donation.
Learning Objectives
- Describe a donor’s perspective on living kidney donation to a stranger in the USA
- Explain barriers to living kidney donation and the ways such barriers may create or exacerbate inequity
- Identify ethically-relevant differences in rates of kidney transplantation from living and deceased individuals across countries
- Propose context-specific recommendations for transplant professionals
Further Reading:
Gershun, M., & Lantos, J. D. (2021). Kidney to Share. In Kidney to Share. Cornell University Press.
Burnapp, L., Van Assche, K., Lennerling, A., Slaats, D., Van Dellen, D., Mamode, N., … & Dor, F. J. (2020). Raising awareness of unspecified living kidney donation: an ELPAT view. Clinical kidney journal, 13(2), 159-165.
Mamode, N., Van Assche, K., Burnapp, L., Courtney, A., van Dellen, D., Houthoff, M., … & Lennerling, A. (2022). Donor Autonomy and Self-Sacrifice in Living Organ Donation: An Ethical Legal and Psychological Aspects of Transplantation (ELPAT) View. Transplant International, 35, 10131.
David van Dellen, Lisa Burnapp, Franco Citterio, Nizam Mamode, Greg Moorlock, Kristof van Assche, Willij C Zuidema, Annette Lennerling, Frank JMF Dor. Pre-emptive live donor kidney transplantation-moving barriers to opportunities: An ethical, legal and psychological aspects of organ transplantation view. World J Transplant. 2021 Apr 18; 11(4): 88–98. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v11.i4.88