TTS Pulse Podcast

Original Air Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 Moderators John W. Baddley, United States Stephanie Pouch, United States Speakers Ricardo La Hoz, United States Camille N. Kotton, United States Lara Danziger-Isakov, United States 📑 Outline Multiple measles cases have recently been reported globally, representing a unique threat to transplant patients. This webinar plans to describe clinical features of...

Original Air Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Moderators Jennifer Li, Australia Jonathan Bromberg, United States Muhammad Mohiuddin, United States Speakers Wayne J. Hawthorne, Australia Raphael Meier, United States Jay Fishman, United States Robin K. Avery, United States Leo Bühler, Switzerland 📑 Overview Join our panel of experts who discuss important topics in Xenotransplantation. This panel discu...

Original Air Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025 Moderators Cameron Wolfe, United States Peter Chiodini, United Kingdom Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Brazil Speakers Michele I. Morris, United States Oriol Manuel, Switzerland Siriorn Watcharananan, Thailand 📑 Outline The number of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients continues to grow and as their overall health improves, they are increasingly travel...

Original Air Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Moderators Germaine Wong, Australia Bianca Davidson, South Africa Speakers Zibya Barday, South Africa Nicole Scholes-Robertson, Australia Maleeka Ladhani, Australia 📑 Overview This webinar will provide an overview of the qualitative multinational study that was conducted by WIT Pillar Ill and will include some personal stories of women with transplants....

Original Air Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Moderators Camille N. Kotton, United States Stefan G. Tullius, United States Speaker Bradley J. Gardiner, Australia 📑 Overview Presentation of recently published manuscript in Transplantation Gardiner, B. J., et al. (2025). Global Immune Biomarkers and Donor Serostatus Can Predict Cytomegalovirus Infection Within Seropositive Lung Transplant Recipient...

Original Air Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Moderator Wanessa Clemente, Brazil Speakers Shahid Husain, Canada Monica Slavin, Australia Emily Eichenberger, USA John Baddley, USA 📑 Overview The number of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients continues to increase, and these patients remain at heightened risk for invasive and endemic fungal infections. This webinar will review current approaches and...

Original Air Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 Moderators Estephan Arredondo Córdova, Spain Anne Floden, Sweden Speakers Carmen Blanco, Spain Jon Boyd, United States 📑 Overview Educational webinar highlighting the essential role of Allied Health Professionals in organ, tissue and cell donation and transplantation, showcasing best practices and established international training programs. 🎯 Learnin...

Original Air Date: Friday, July 31, 2026 Moderators Jennifer Li, Australia Harry Robertson, Australia Speakers Artem Trotsyuk, United States Wisit Cheungpasitporn, United States Mamatha Bhat, Canada 📑 Overview The growing field of AI and its influence on the medical field is important to understand. A reasonable understanding of the AI framework is needed to harness the opportunities provided by...

In this episode of Behind the Paper, host Macey Levan, Social Media Editor, speaks with Dr. Robert J. Rolfe of Duke University and Dr. Camille N. Kotton of Harvard Medical School, authors of the perspective article “Navigating Hantavirus Risk in Transplantation: Implications for Clinical Practice,” published in Transplantation. The discussion explores how hantaviruses are transmitted, why Andes vi...

In this episode of Behind the Paper, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, speaks with Robert Freercks and Kathryn Manning about their article: Transplantation Improves Patient Survival in a PD-first Program in South Africa The discussion focuses on kidney replacement therapy and transplantation access in a public sector renal program in South Africa. The study followe...

In this episode of Behind the Paper, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, speaks with Babak J. Orandi, MD, about the article: Antiobesity Interventions in Living Organ Donor Candidates: Ethical and Policy Considerations The discussion focuses on the ethical and policy questions raised by antiobesity interventions for living organ donor candidates. Dr. Orandi explains...

In this episode of Behind the Paper, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, speaks with Rohit Gaurav, FRCS, about his article: Sequential In Situ Normothermic Regional Perfusion and Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion in Controlled Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Single-center Experience The discussion focuses on the use of seq...

In this episode of Behind the Paper, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, speaks with Gabriel E. Gondolesi, Marti Manyalich, and Steven Potter about their article: Clarifying the Donation After Circulatory Death Process: Addressing Misunderstandings, Correcting Misinformation, and Building Trust Through Education The discussion focuses on donation after circulatory de...

In this Behind the Paper episode, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the *Transplantation* journals, interviews Dimitrios Morris, MD about the key insights from: 📄 **Transplant Surgery: Sustaining a Workforce at a Critical Juncture** Commentary Published in *Transplantation* (July 2026) This commentary examines the growing challenges facing the transplant surgery workforce at a time when the fi...

In this Behind the Paper episode, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the *Transplantation* journals, interviews Bethany Foster, MD, a pediatric nephrologist and professor at McGill University, about the key insights from: 📄 Sex Disparities in Transplantation Access and Outcomes: An Overview Review Article Published in *Transplantation* (April 2026) This review explores how sex disparities affec...

In this Behind the Paper episode, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, interviews Robert Rolfe, MD about the key insights from: 📄 **Travel After Transplant: Demographics, Travel Trends, and Vaccination Practices of US Immunocompromised Travelers** Original Clinical Science—General Published in *Transplantation* (April 2026) This study describes the largest reported c...

In this Behind the Paper episode, Macey Levan, MD and Leonardo V. Riella, MD discuss the key insights from: 📄 Advancing Hope Through Science: The Inaugural Richard Slayman International Workshop on Xenotransplantation Meeting Report – Published in *Transplantation* (February 2026) This landmark workshop brought together more than 140 participants from North America, Europe, and Asia to examine th...

In this special *Behind the Paper* panel, Cynthia Tsien, Tanjala Purnell, PhD, MPH, Nazia Selzner, MD, PhD, and Stefan G. Tullius (Editor-in-Chief, *Transplantation*) discuss the key insights from: 📄 **Global Strategies for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Transplantation: Insights From the Inaugural International Congress** Perspectives: Meeting Report – Published in *Transplantatio...

In this special panel, Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhD (Editor-in-Chief, Transplantation), Friederike Martin, MD, and Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, MD, PhD discuss the findings of the landmark publication: 📄 Organ Donation and Transplantation Worldwide: The Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation 2024 Report Published in Transplantation (March 2026)  In 2024, a record 173,727 solid organ transpla...

Federally Funded Research in Transplantation: Achievements, Strategy, and Vision Federal investment—particularly through the National Institutes of Health—has been central to many of the most important advances in transplantation. From foundational discoveries in alloimmunity to the translation of innovative ideas into clinical practice, publicly funded research has shaped how the field looks toda...

Gerald Brandacher discusses the recent review “Clinical Manifestation, Mechanisms, and Potential Targets of Intervention for Chronic Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.” As vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) has matured, chronic rejection has become a key determinant of long-term graft outcomes. Unlike solid organ transplantation, VCAs involve multiple tissue typ...

Behind the Paper with Robson Gilmour and Mekhola Hoff Robson Gilmour and Mekhola Hoff discuss the recent publication in Transplantation journal "Beyond Feasibility: Critical Steps Toward Drone-based Organ Transport" Drones, or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), are becoming increasingly visible in healthcare logistics. In several countries, they already deliver blood, vaccines, and laboratory sample...

Explore effective social media strategies to enhance transplant communication, education, and engagement with patients, professionals, and the public. - How Social Media Has Been Used in Transplantation - Macey Levan - Leveraging Social Media to Increase Organ Donation - Frank Dor - The Professional Edge: Do’s and Don’ts as a Transplanter on Social Media - Augusto dos Santos, Jr Objectives Underst...

Moderators Jennifer Li (Australia) – TTS Education Co-Chair Shweta Anjan (United States) Speakers Rachel Phalen (United States) Meera Gupta (United States) Michelle Long Schoettler (United States) 📖 This webinar is based on two recent publications in Transplantation: Risk Factors for Solid Organ Graft Failure and Death in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplanta...

Macey Levan sits down with Prof. Carla C. Baan (Transplantation Journals Executive Editor, Past ESOT President) to discuss highlights from WTC 2025 and what’s ahead for the transplant community. They cover Carla’s path as a basic scientist, mentorship and advice for future investigators, the Transplantation journals’ fellows program, and the upcoming call to recruit Editorial Fellowships.