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LifeLink® of Florida 11th Annual Regional Learning Conference
Date and time
Location
Bryan Glazer Family JCC
522 N Howard Ave Tampa, FL 33606Description
“A New Hope”
All Critical Care, Emergency Room, Palliative Care Nurses, Physician Assistants, and Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners are Invited to Attend.
CEUs, Trauma, and Stroke Hours Offered.
No Registration Fee
Continental Breakfast and Lunch Provided
** Register by March 24th **
Registration and Breakfast at 7:00 a.m.
Program Begins Promptly at 8:00 a.m. and Ends at 4:00 p.m.
Agenda:
- “A New Hope:" A Gift of Life Story
- The Need by the Numbers: Lives Hanging in the Balance
- Effective Communication: Transitioning from Despair to Hope
- Hot Topics: Donation and Transplantation Advances
- Optimizing Donor Potential: The Clinical Balancing Act
- The Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Process
- The Declaration of Death
- Connect to Cause
- The Force is with You to Save Lives
Educational Objectives:
- Increase awareness of local and national best practice initiatives, partnering with Health and Human Services, Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services, Joint Commission, and DNV Healthcare Inc. and local hospitals.
- Gain an increased understanding of the donation process, including the referral process, donor management, brain death declaration and family communication.
- Understand the Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) process.
- Connect the role of the healthcare professional to the outcomes of donation and transplantation.
Speakers:
Facilitator:
Thomas A. Nakagawa, M.D., FAAP, FCCM, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Thomas A. Nakagawa, M.D., FAAP, FCCM, is a Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he also serves as Chief of Critical Care and Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Dr. Nakagawa is actively involved with issues pertaining to organ and tissue donation and has served as national faculty and co-chair for the Organ Donation and Transplantation Breakthrough Collaboratives sponsored by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). He currently serves as co-chair of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance donor management taskforce committee. Dr. Nakagawa co-chaired the 2007, 2011, and 2013 National Pediatric Organ Donation Summit. Dr. Nakagawa serves on the Secretary of Health of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT), is a member of the UNOS/OPTN Pediatric Transplant committee, and has been a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics for the revision of the pediatric organ donation and transplantation policy statement. His international work includes involvement with the expert panel for the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation, the Geneva Conference on Pediatric Donation, and the Canadian pediatric DCD initiative.
Dr. Nakagawa is the lead author of the updated guidelines for the determination of brain death in infants and children from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the Child Neurology Society (CNS). He has published pediatric donor management and dosing guidelines utilized by organ procurement organizations nationally and authored numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Nakagawa has worked closely with medical examiners, transplant professionals, child abuse and forensic experts, investigators, and critical care specialists on issues pertaining to abuse investigations and pediatric organ donation.
Dr. Nakagawa has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and serves as a national consultant for issues pertaining to pediatric organ and tissue donation. He has been recognized with regional and national awards for his leadership and involvement with donation and transplantation and his work in the field of pediatric medicine.
Bryan Glazer Family JCC
522 N. Howard Ave Tampa, FL 33606
813.575.5900 / https://www.bryanglazerfamilyjcc.com/