Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN

Congratulations to our Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant awardees for advancing transplant research and innovation for our patients.

Approximately 4,000 Canadians are waiting for a life-saving organ at any one time. Unfortunately, approximately 250 Canadians die while waiting each year!
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We asked members of team transplant why green shirt day and Be A Donor month is important for organ donation and transplantation.

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Today is Green Shirt Day. 💚
We asked members of of team transplant why green shirt day is important for organ donation and transplantation.

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Today is Green Shirt Day. 💚
We asked members of of team transplant why green shirt day is important for organ donation and transplantation.

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April is month in Ontario! 💚
Did you know that our centre at the University Health Network performed 715 organ transplants in 2023!
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UHN’s Toronto General Hospital Research Institute Drs. Ana Konvalinka and Sergi Clotet-Freixas led an international team of researchers to explore novel sex-differences in kidney metabolism that are relevant to sex-related outcomes in diabetic . Read more > https://www.uhnresearch.ca/news/decoding-diabetic-kidney-disease

Read the full article > http://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abm2090

Dr. Ana Konvalinka is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at the University of Toronto. She is also a Clinician Scientist and Transplant Nephrologist at the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN.

Dr. Sergi Clotet-Freixas was a previous postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Konvalinka’s lab and is currently an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at McMaster University – St. Joseph’s Healthcare.

This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada Foundation for Innovation, The The Kidney Foundation of Canada La Fondation canadienne du rein KRESCENT Program, UHN Foundation, University of Toronto CRAFT award, the Schroeder Arthritis Institute, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ontario Research Fund, IBM and Ian Lawson van Toch Fund, the CIHR Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Program, Can-SOLVE CKD Network, FONDO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA-FEDER, National Institutes of Health (NIH), German Research Foundation, and Fonds de recherche du Québec (Santé).

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Are you ready for it?

April is BeADonor month in Ontario and we encourage everyone to learn more about organ donation and transplantation.

Register your consent at beadonor.ca

High school teachers across Ontario- book a presentation at your school under book now!

How will you celebrate and mark BeADonor month?

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Today and everyday, it is the responsibility of each person to

This week is !
Join us to thank our Fellows and Residents for their dedication to patient care.

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Congratulations to Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant recipients awarded funding for advancing transplant research and innovation for our patients.

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UHN News is looking at some of the top stories of 2023.

A study by a team led by Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN researchers found that storing donor lungs for transplant at 10C markedly increases the length of time the organ can live outside the body.

“The clinical impact of this study is huge,” says lead author Dr. Marcelo Cypel, Surgical Director of the Transplant Centre at UHN and a surgeon within UHN's Sprott Surgery Department.

Read more → https://bit.ly/40sncci

📢 𝘾𝘿𝙏𝙍𝙋 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 📢

Register now for our next presentation with 𝗗𝗿. 𝗦𝘂𝘇𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 to learn on how to explore complexities in liver transplantation through digital storytelling.

🗓️ Tuesday, January 23, 2024
⏰ 3-4 pm EST
🎟️ 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: https://bit.ly/3tEDeWu

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 👉 https://bit.ly/3tOrErS
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📢 𝙎é𝙧𝙞𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩é à 𝙡𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙪 𝙋𝙍𝘿𝙏𝘾 📢

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant à notre prochaine présentation avec 𝗗𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝘇𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 pour en savoir plus les complexités entourant la transplantation hépatique grâce à la narration numérique.

🗓️ Mardi 23 janvier 2024
⏰ 15h à 16h HNE
🎟️ 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 : https://bit.ly/3tEDeWu

𝑬𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔 👉 https://bit.ly/3NW85o8

Our Transplant Centre achieved remarkable success in 2023, setting a new record with 715 organ transplants!
This includes 198 liver transplants, 217 lung transplants, 37 pancreas transplants, 43 heart transplants, 194 kidney transplants, 22 islet transplants, and 4 liver-kidney transplants.

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Deepali Kumar as Medical Director for Ajmera Transplant Centre effective February 1, 2024.

Dr. Deepali Kumar is a Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto and a globally renowned Transplant physician. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Ottawa (1996) and undertook infectious diseases training at the University of California-San Diego and McMaster University, as well as post-doctoral training in Transplantation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kumar has been Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases within the ATC for several years and helped guide the program through the COVID pandemic, in addition to providing guidance for transplant programs globally.

Dr. Kumar’s clinical and research interests focus on infections in transplant recipients including the impact of viruses and vaccines in the transplant population. She has published extensively and obtained continuous peer-reviewed research grant funding. She has mentored more than 50 trainees, many of whom now hold academic positions in transplant centers around the world.

We would like to acknowledge Dr. Atul Humar for his exceptional leadership of the ATC over the past decade. Dr. Humar will continue his outstanding academic work as a physician, researcher and teacher at UHN.

This week, University Health Network celebrated the Local Impact Awards and the 2023 UHN Global Impact Awards, as a part of the inaugural TeamUHN Week of Gratitude.

This is peer recognition from the best hospital in Canada and one of the top five in the world. And, there's no higher praise that any of us on the staff can realize in that connection.

From a record 113 nominations, winners of the 2023 UHN Local Impact Awards were announced at a ceremony in Schatz Hall at the Michener Institute of Education at UHN.

Dr. Brad Wouters, UHN's Executive Vice President of Science and Research, said since its inception in 2004, the Global Impact Award has honoured "a real who's who of giants in the field of medical research." We are proud to honour three UHN scientists by adding them to this impressive list. Dr. Murray Urowitz, who retired from UHN's Schroeder Arthritis Institute at Toronto Western Hospital in 2022; the late Dr. Richard (Dick) Hill, whose long history at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre began in the 1960s; and the late Dr. Wayne Johnston, a longtime surgeon at UHN's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, were recognized in a ceremony at the Michener Institute of Education at UHN.

Inspired support leads to exceptional impact. As we approach the holiday season, your support to UHN and UHN Foundation is fundamental for us to drive innovation forward and continue to make key contributions in the world of heathcare.

Learn more about these awards and the winners ➜ https://bit.ly/3QROkjy

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Researchers Drs. Fakhar Ali Qazi Arisar and Mamatha Bhat from Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and Ajmera Transplant Centre as well as Dr. Masoom Haider from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Research and Sinai Health developed a prediction model using clinical and quantitative features from medical images that can identify patients at risk for complications following .

Read more > https://www.uhnresearch.ca/news/predicting-liver-complications

Read the full article > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37720416/

Dr. Bhat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto (UofT). Dr. Haider is a Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging at UofT.

This work was supported by UHN Foundation and the Ajmera Transplant Centre.

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On November 27, join us at the Transplant AI symposium to dive into the latest in ML tool development for transplantation. Featuring talks from global experts in Transplant AI and top-notch research presentations by our trainees.

Register: https://ow.ly/lJPb50Q37nO

🚨 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 🚨

CDTRP is happy to host the screening of Fraser Allan Best's film, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿.

This short film explores the donor-recipient relationship based on Fraser’s experience of living-liver transplantation in 2020. It also explores the shared experience of living donation, its uncertainties, shifts in identity, and the radical vulnerabilities for both donor and recipients.

Following the screening, we invite you to join us for a 𝗤&𝗔 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 with Fraser Allan Best himself, and moderated by Dr. Suze Berkhout and Chloe Wong-Mersereau from the University Health Network.

📅 Monday, November 20, 2023
⏰ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST

𝑭𝑹𝑬𝑬 𝑹𝑬𝑮𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 ✍️ https://bit.ly/3Qr8zTN

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 👉 https://bit.ly/3u2s3qr

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🚨 𝗥É𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗭 𝗟𝗔 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 🚨

Le PRDTC est heureux d’accueillir la première projection du film documentaire de Fraser Allan Best, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿.

Ce court métrage explore la relation donneur-receveur à partir de l’expérience de Fraser qui a subi une transplantation de foie d’un donneur vivant en 2020. Le film explore également l’expérience du don vivant, ses incertitudes, les changements d’identité et les vulnérabilités tant pour le donneur que pour le receveur.

Après la projection, nous vous invitons à vous joindre à nous pour une 𝘀é𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀-𝗿é𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 avec Fraser Allan Best lui-même et animée par Dre Suze Berkhout et Chloe Wong-Mersereau de l’University Health Network.

📅 Lundi 20 novembre 2023
⏰ 20h30 à 21h30 HNE

𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑪𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑬𝒁-𝑽𝑶𝑼𝑺 𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑼𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻 ✍️ https://bit.ly/3Qr8zTN

𝑬𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔 👉 https://bit.ly/47oFNtF

🎉 IN A WEEK 🎉

Join 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝘁 and the CDTRP at the Canadian Society of Transplantation 2023 Meeting in Winnipeg!

💡 Revolutionizing Transplants: Unleashing AI’s Power in Organ Donation & Transplantation

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 👉 https://bit.ly/48K6wma

Join us to hear from Dr. John Craig Venter, award recipient of the Edogawa Niche Prize.

🗨️Sequencing of the Human Genome
🗓️ Wednesday, October 25, 2023
⏰ 8-9 am ET
🔗 https://ow.ly/cPhU50PXEY5



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Happy Thanksgiving from Team Transplant! 🍁

😀Today is ! 😀 Do an act of kindness. Help one person SMILE!
World Smile Day®

Career opportunity:

The University Health Network is recruiting a Physician Assistant to join the Multi-Organ Transplant team at the Toronto General Hospital.

Learn more and apply today: https://www.recruitingsite.com/csbsites/uhncareers/JobDescription.asp?SiteID=10031&JobNumber=912974

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, along with their families and communities.

Learn more ➡️ https://ow.ly/sY3K50PRhKe

Today marks World Heart Day. Our Medical Director, Heart Transplant Dr. Michael McDonald, and Heart Fellows want you to choose a healthy lifestyle.

Did you know that 8 in 10 cases of premature heart disease and stroke cases are preventable through healthy lifestyle behaviours?

Learn more → https://ow.ly/u9zc50PR7KI

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Students at the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN have identified risk factors and best treatment practices for disease following transplant.

Read more > www.uhnresearch.ca/news/kidney-dysfunction-after-transplant-0

Read the full article > doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2023.03.079

Dr. S Joseph Kim and Olusegun Famure led students of the Multi-Organ Transplant Student Research Training Program (MOTSRTP) in this study to help improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Kidney Transplant program at UHN.

This work was supported by UHN Foundation.

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