Raising the Bar: Updates In Organ Transplantation for People with HIV/AIDS
Sapna A. Mehta, MD, FIDSA
Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Clinical Director, NYU Langone Transplant Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Dr. Sapna Mehta is the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases and the Clinical Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Mehta received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 2003 where she also completed her Internal Medicine residency. She completed her infectious diseases fellowship at NYU in 2009. Her clinical experience in HIV medicine has included HIV primary care, implementation of HIV care protocols under an NYU partner PEPFAR site in Kenya, and over the last decade providing care for transplant patients with HIV infection. Dr. Mehta has a particular interest in improving awareness around transplant options for people living with HIV in the New York region. She is NYU’s site investigator for the multi-center HOPE clinical trials through which HIV positive transplant recipients can receive organs from HIV positive donors. Dr. Mehta has also developed NYU’s living kidney donor program for HIV-positive donors. She is currently the Chair of the HIV Working Group of the American Society of Transplantation's Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.
At the completion of this educational activity learners will:
1. Understand the ongoing need for transplantation and current transplantation options among people living with HIV in the United States.
2. Be aware of clinical outcomes of HIV-positive organ use for HIV-positive recipients.
3. Appreciate the early experience to date with living donor kidney transplantation from HIV-positive donors for HIV-positive recipients.
4. Learn about how the HOPE act has impacted access to organ transplantation for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Policies and standards of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education require that speakers and planners for continuing medical education activities disclose any relevant financial relationships they may have with commercial interests whose products, devices, or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity.
- Dr. James F. Braun (Course Director/Planner) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
- Dr. Krisczar J. Bungay (Moderator) has had the following personal financial relationships in the past 24 months with manufacturers of the products or services that may be presented in this CME activity: Speaker for Gilead, ViiV, Merck, Janssen and Idorsia. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
- Dr. Sapna A. Mehta (Presenter) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Dr. Mehta submitted her slides in advance for adequate peer review and supported her presentation and clinical recommendations with the best available evidence from the medical literature.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare and by a generous charitable contribution from Northwell Health Center for AIDS Research & Treatment.
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