Editor’s note: Healio | Nephrology News & Issues interviewed John Friedewald, MD, and Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, about their roles as conference chairpersons and highlights of the agenda for the American Transplant Congress.The American Transplant Congress (ATC) will take place June 1-5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
In February, a physician at Northwestern Medicine donated her own kidney to a Virginia woman she had never met before, kicking off a donation chain that saved two patients lives.