Friday, February 4th, 2005

Plenary Session 1
Live Organ Donation: Social Context, Clinical Encounter and the Psychology of Communication.
Owen Surman, MD, Terre Allen PhD and Isao Fukunishi, MD

Paper Session 1
Ethical Dilemmas
Moderator: Owen Surman, MD

Transplantation of the Human Face: Ethical and Psychiatric Considerations #34 Martin M. Klapheke, MD

Liver Transplantation in the Prison Population #35
Maureen Burke-Davis, RN, SM, CCTC

Am I My Brother’s Keeper: Exploring the Limits of Autonomy in Living Organ Donor Transplantation #32
John Franklin, MD, FSM

Ethical Issues in Using Living Organ Donors for Transplantation #33
L.S. Rothenberg, JD

Workshop I
Religion, Altruism and Organ Donation
Susan Abbey, MD, FRCPC
Sarah Greenwood, RN, BScN, CPMHN (C)

Paper Session II
Abstinence and Substance Abuse (Room A)
Moderator: Cathy Crone, MD

A Motivational Interviewing and Health Promotion Telephone Intervention for Transplant Candidates with Active Substance Abuse Problems:
Preliminary Data #17
Mary Ellen Olbrisch, PhD

The Impact of a Relapse Prevention Group on Long-Term Outcome for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates #16
Judy Stowe, MA

Alcohol and Tobacco Use After Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease #24
Andrea DiMartini MD, FAPM

Psychosocial Outcomes in Pediatric OrganTransplantation (Room B) Moderator: Margaret Stuber, MD

Assessment and Prediction of Nonadherence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients #15
Eyal Shemesh, MD

Quality of Life Outcomes in Adolescents Following Heart Transplantation #10
Samantha Anthony, MSW, PhD (cand), RSW

Psychosocial Predictors of Health Care Utilization in Pediatric Transplant Recipients #14
Margaret L. Stuber, MD

Emotional Distress (Room C)
Moderator:
Curley Bonds, MD

Psychiatric Distress Across 4 Years After Heart Transplantation: Unique Temporal Profiles and Their Predictors #21
Mary Amanda Dew, PhD

A Brief Screening Tool for Identifying Psychological Distress in Heart Transplant Recipients #19
Quincy-Robyn Young, PhD

Parents of Children Who Had a Transplant Tend to Under-report Their Child’s Posttraumatic Symptoms #18
Eyal Shemesh, MD

Keynote Address I
Ethical Considerations in Liver Transplantation: A Surgical Perspective
Ron Busuttil, M.D., Chief, Division Of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation Director, Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

Keynote II:
Cardiac Transplantation: Advances and Ethical Dilemmas
Jon Kobashigawa, MD , Medical Director, UCLA HeartTransplant Program, President: International Society for Heart Lung Transplant

Paper Session III
Living Donation – Kidney
Moderator: Andrea DiMartini

Special Considerations in the Evaluation of Very Young Kidney Donor Candidates #2
Louise K. Jeffrey, PhD, ABPP

The Psychosocial Evaluation, Motivation and Outcome of 26 Nondirected Kidney Donors #3
Cheryl Jacobs, LCSW

Prospective Psychosocial Monitoring of Living Kidney Donors #5
Graeme C. Smith, MD

Predictors of Kidney Recipient’s Unwillingness to Pursue Living Donation #4
Amy Waterman, PhD

Workshop II

A. Medical Altruism – Issues in Living Donation
Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD Galen E. Switzer, PhD Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD

B. Coping with Countertransference and CounterReactions: When "Good" Organs Happen to "Bad"People
Susan Abbey, MD, FRCPC, Susan Cherneko, RN, MN,ACNP; Sarah Greenwood, RN, BScN, CPMHN(C); Colleen Shelton, RN, BAAN, MHSc, MSc(c)

Paper Session IV
Family Support and Coping (Room A)
Moderator: Judy Stowe, MSW

Allocation of Responsibility in Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplant #13
Kristen A. Kullgren, PhD

The Experience Journal: A Virtual Support for Families of Pediatric Transplant Patients #29
David Ray DeMaso, MD

Quality of Life and Coping Strategies Among Lung Transplant Candidates and Family Caregivers #36
Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD

Death, Dying and Palliative Care (Room B)
Moderator: Charles E. Schwartz, MD

Perceived Needs for Support During the Donation Decision-Making Process #27
Livia Jacoby, Ph.D.

Grief in the Midst of a Second Chance for Life: Death and the Transplant Support Group #28
Marget Schmidtke, MSSW, LicSW

End of Life Issues in Transplantation #30
Linda Wright, MHSC, MSW, RSW

Transplant Candidate Decision Making and Communication (Room C)
Moderator: Christine Skotzko, MD

Hoping for the Best While Preparing for the Worst: Communication about End-of-Life Planning in Heart Transplant Programs #31
Jonathan Yager, MD

Transplant Recipient Selection: Improving the Decision Making Process #22
Quincy-Robyn Young, PhD

The Dynamics of Communication in the Process of Informed Consent #12
Terre H. Allen, PhD

Paper Session V Psychosocial Outcomes in Solid Organ Transplantation(Room A)
Moderator: Mary Amanda Dew, PhD

The UCLA Liver Transplant PORTEL (Patient Outcome Registry for Transplant Effects on Life) Experience #38
Lucy Artinian, RN, MN

Predictors of Depression in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease #20
Bryan Zolnikov, MA

Predictors of Quality of Life at 5-6 Years after Heart Transplantation #11
Julie Chait, RN, BBN

Lung and Heart Transplant Recipients’ Health Status and Social Support, but Not Their Coping Strategies, Are Related to QOL One Year PostTransplant #37
Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD

Prospective Psychosocial monitoring of Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplant Recipients #26
Graeme C. Smith, MD

Living Donation – Liver (Room B)
Moderator: Sheila Jowsey, MD

Psychosocial, Social and Behavioral Characteristicsof 150 Living Donor Candidates for Adult Liver Transplantation #8
Mary Ellen Olbrisch, PhD

Volunteers for Living Liver Donation #6
Kathy L. Coffman, MD, FAPM

Evaluating Living Liver Donor or OpeningPandora’s Box #23
Bonita M. Potter, RN, CCTC

Understanding Psychosocial Outcomes for Living Liver Donors #7
Mark W. Nickels, MD

The Psychosocial Experience of Adult-to-AdultLiving Liver Donors #9
Mark W. Nickels, MD

Plenary Session II
Ethical and Practical Issues in Organ Transplantation
Gabriel Danovitch, MD, Medical Director, UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Keynote Address III When does Death Occur
Stuart Youngner, MD, Director, Case Western Reserve Center for Biomedical Ethics

Workshop III Psychosocial Aspects of Islet Transplantation: Peer/Patient Mentoring & The Edmonton Protocol (Room A)
Bryan D. Sandilands, BSc Spec. Psych., BSW, RSW

“Emotional Relatedness” and Multiple Agency in the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors (Room B)
Donald L. Rosentein, MD, Mary Ellen Olbrisch, PhD, Deborah Snyder, MSW

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction & Transplantation (Room C)
Sarah Greenwood, RN, BScN, CPMHN(C) , SusanAbbey, MD

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