CME Accreditation Statement:
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Statement, CME Credit:
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 18.5 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the history of ethical framework for organ donation.
• State the ethical arguments against markets.
• Explain what constitutes surrogate consent for organ donation.
• Compare surrogate consent with other types of consent.
• Analyze outcomes of various immunosuppressive regimens in solid organ and islet cell transplantation.
• Discuss the potential benefit of utilizing induction immunosuppression in order to minimize long-term exposure to immunosuppressive agents.
• Explain how to adapt immunosuppressive regimens to arising contingencies such as rejection, toxicity, infection and the treatment of non-traditional rejection.
• Review novel uses for establishing agents and compare these results with promising new agents in the pipeline.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support:
Barr Laboratories
Genzyme Corporation
United Resource Networks

Additional Information:
For Questions on this activity, contact Renee at Amedco at renee@cmehelp.com

Date of Activity Release: March 1, 2005

Date of Last Revision: March 1, 2005

Date of Activity Expiration: March 1, 2005

Necessary Hardware and Software:
Macromedia Flash version 7.0 or higher
Compatable Web Browser listed below:

• Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or higher
• Netscape Navigator 6.0 or higher
• Apple - Safari

Estimated Time to Complete this Activity:
18 hours and 30 minutes

Method of Physician Participation:
All participants will view slides and audio of online presentation and then complete an activity evaluation and post-test at the end of the activity before being able to print a certificate of attendance.

Medium or combination of media used:
Macromedia Flash SWF

Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality:
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality assures that personal data collected through the normal practice of on-line continuing education will be kept private and confidential.

Copyright:
All faculty in this activity have given their permission for publication.