Gaurav Gupta, MD

Division of Nephrology

Hume-Lee Transplant Center

Virginia Commonwealth University

In person and via Zoom

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Identify the medical risks of living kidney donation
• Discuss the current kidney allocation system
• Identify basic surgical and medical aspects of kidney transplantation
• Distinguish between common and uncommon medical complications of kidney transplantation

Disclosure of Financial Interest Summary

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Gaurav Gupta, MD, speaker for this educational event, is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the following companies: Apellis, Aexion, CareDx, Natera, Novartis, Viracor, has provided Research Support for Merck, and is a speaker for CareDx.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.