President and CEO Welcome and AATB Annual Business Meeting

Marc Pearce, MBA, President and CEO

Session Summary

Prepare to be taken on a journey. With her perceptive view inside the patient experience, Allison Massari’s riveting and insightful keynote illuminates the immense value that healthcare professionals have upon a patient who is suffering. By weaving her remarkable journey with potent life lessons, Allison highlights the integral nature of person-centered care and fortifies audience members, reigniting their passion for why they went into healthcare in the first place. She explains, "The power of what you do goes far beyond the technical part of your job. You are healing the places medicine cannot touch. In fact, YOU are the medicine." Hailed as “life-changing”, Allison’s keynote offers a sincere and direct approach to navigating adversity, transcending life’s difficulties, and always finding a way to be the healer in the room. This content-rich and deeply moving speech also offers applicable tools for managing change, adversity, and the everyday challenges of being human.

Learning Objectives

1. Implement the art of bringing kindness to someone in a matter of seconds, regardless of how busy you are.
2. Apply the power you have to transform patient lives.
3. Interpret the patient/client experience at a deeper level.
4. Prioritize the necessary and positive impact of compassionate care.

Allison Massari, Keynote Speaker|Executive Coach|Visual Artist

Break - Sponsor video

• Learning Objectives
• Upon completion participants will learn about Candler David Smith and his choice to be an organ and tissue donor.
• Upon completion participants will understand the donor family’s walk through organ and tissue donation.
• Upon completion participants will learn about grief and the continued walk of hope and healing through organ and tissue donation.
• Upon completion participants will describe advocacy work and list its healing properties.

Shawn O. Smith, BS, MBA,

Session Summary

A moderated panel discussion that summarizes the candid discussions and collaboration between tissue leaders during the changing landscape and uncertainties of the pandemic. Topics included the creation of procedures that prioritized recovery staff safety, supply management, donor screening and processor criteria of acceptance changes.

Learning Objectives

1. Upon completion, participant will have insight into lessons learned from sharing of information during the pandemic.

Catherine Hankins, CTBS, Director, Tissue Donor Services

Rick M. Kolovich, MSN, RN, CCTC, CTBS, Director, Tissue Recovery Services

Alan Taylor, CTBS, Director of Tissue Services

Dan Lunn, CTBS, CEBT, VP Tissue Operations

Session Summary

As enforcement discretion ends, the tissue bank community must ensure they are ready for GMP. It is important to discuss how GTP and GMP align and how they differ and what the industry needs to prepare for.

Learning Objectives

1. Upon completion, participant will be able to describe major differences between GTP and GMP.
2. Upon completion, participant will be able to list key GMP process requirements.
3. Upon completion, participant will be able to demonstrate knowledge of how GMP affects the tissue banking community.

Holly Patel, BS, Sr. Director, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance

Melissa Villers, Director, QE

Break - Sponsor video

Awards

Session Summary

Since the first birth of a child after uterus transplantation in 2014 the burgeoning field of transplant surgery has had an exponential growth and is today the most sought-after vascular composite transplantation. Infertility caused by a uterine factor affects an estimated 3–5% of women worldwide and is either congenital (e.g., mullerian agenesis) or acquired (e.g., obstetrical loss). For those women desiring to carry their own child, uterus transplantation is the only treatment. This presentation will take the participants through the evolution of uterus transplantation to understand the added value of this unique life-giving fertility transplantation.

Learning Objectives

1. Upon completion, participants will be able to summarize current knowledge of uterus transplantation.
2. Upon completion, participants will be able to describe patient populations that might benefit from uterus transplantation.
3. Upon completion, participants will be able to state the risks and benefits with uterus transplantation.

Liza Johannesson, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Uterus Transplant

Session Summary

Remote work is a more modern approach as opposed to the traditional five day a week on-site model. However, the 100% remote model does come at a price to employers. The hybrid model combines both on-site and remote to create a win-win for both the employer and employee.

Learning Objectives

1. Upon completion, participants will understand the benefits and challenges of remote work.
2. Upon completion, participants will be able to develop and implement a Hybrid Work Model that will work best in their organization.
3. Upon completion, participants will gain knowledge on both the employer and employees view of Remote Work.

Maria Szydlowski, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, VP, Human Resources

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