Program Description: 

This weekly transplant service line lecture serves as an educational forum for team members, providing an opportunity to discuss a variety of clinical, surgical, and system-based topics relevant to transplant care. It promotes interdisciplinary learning, case-based discussions, and continuous improvement in patient management.

 

Keywords: CME, EthosCE, Best Practices, MCW

Target audience: 
  • Physicians
  • APPs
  • Medical Students
Learning objectives: 
Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
 
  • Appreciate the recent changes in organizational structure of leadership for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)
  • Understand how both internal and external stressors to the OPTN has resulted in disruption of activities of the OPTN including cessation of committee support and policy development
  • Be called to act to assure the ongoing operations of the OPTN continue without disruption to protect patients and donor families
Faculty & credentials: 
Activity Director(s):
Badi Rawashdeh, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Education in Transplant Surgery
 
Speaker:
Matthew Cooper, MD
Mark B. Adams Chair in Transplant Surgery
Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery
Director, Solid Organ Transplant Service Line, Froedtert
Director, Solid Organ Transplantation, Children's Hospital
Tenured Professor of Surgery
 
 
In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all persons in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. It is the policy of the Medical College of Wisconsin to identify, mitigate and disclose the absence or presence of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
 
  • Badi Rawashdeh, MD
  • Matthew Cooper, MD

 

Contact

Name: 
Becki Lucchesi
Phone number: 
+1 (414) 805-6002
Email: 
[email protected]

ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.00 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.

Session date: 
05/08/2026 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CDT
Location: 
Froedtert Hospital
Helfaer Auditorium, Level 1
Milwaukee, WI 53226
United States
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Add to calendar: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 1.00 Hours of Participation
    Hours of Participation credit.
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