Event Description:  Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) is a surgical technique that can improve the quality and quantity of organs recovered after the circulatory determination of death. While widely used in Europe and increasingly in some transplant centers across the US, many institutions and clinicians have also been reluctant to adopt NRP due to unresolved ethical and legal questions. This presentation will explore some of the ethical and legal questions surrounding donation after circulatory death (DCD) with normothermic regional perfusion.

Presenter:
Ana S. Iltis, PhD. is the Carlson Professor of University Studies, Professor of Philosophy, and Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society at Wake Forest University. She holds an appointment in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Dr. Iltis is Founding Co-Editor of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University Press), Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of the Annals of Bioethics book series (Routledge). Iltis’ scholarly focus is primarily on the ethical conduct of human research, and she has published extensively on ethics and policy issues regarding organ transplantation and emerging biotechnologies. Iltis is the embedded ethicist in APOLLO, a national study on the impact of kidney donor APOL1 genotype of kidney transplantation outcomes. She has played an active role in community engagement efforts of the project. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rice University and completed bioethics training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

This interdisciplinary activity is free, however, you must pre-register by 10 AM (ET) on March 26 to be able to attend.