SACC-Dallas' Guest Speaker Series Featuring Göran Klintmalm MD, PhD, one of the world’s leading transplant surgeons
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SACC - Dallas is very excited to invite you to an evening with the Swedish surgeon Göran Klintmalm.
Göran will share the story of how he came to the US in the early 80’s as a 34-year-old from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, to set up the transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, now one of the most highly regarded transplant programs in the United States and internationally. He will tell us more of the journey he has made and the progress of transplants. Göran will also share his view on the future of transplants.The fact that Göran and his team in the first year performed 30 liver transplants and in February 2016 performed their 4000th (the third program in the US) is truly intriguing.
After the presentation, there is time for Q & A.
Register now as there is limited seating for this event.
Please find below one of many interesting articles written about Göran and his work:
How A 34-Year-Old Swedish Surgeon Created Baylor's Three-Decade Old Transplant Program
01/26/2015| by Matt Goodman
Thirty years ago, Dr. Goran Klintmalm was 34-years-old and living in Sweden. Liver transplants were considered human experimentation, a last-ditch effort with an 80 percent fatality rate to save a life that would end without the procedure. Medicare and Medicaid didn't reimburse for it, nor did many insurance providers.Nevertheless, Baylor Health Care System CEO Boone Powell Jr. charged ahead. The drug cyclosporine was first used in a human in 1978, and a year later it flipped the survival rates for liver transplant patients. Now, about 80 percent of those who underwent the procedure survived. This wasn't widely known?but Klintmalm was instrumental in these early processes.
In 1981, he teamed with Dr. Tom Starzl, the man who successfully completed the first-ever liver transplant. The two launched an early transplant program in Pittsburgh. He managed large-scale cyclosporine trials that showed their positive impact. Starzl, a close of friend of then-chief of internal medicine Dr. John Fordtran, recommended Baylor hire the 34-year-old to run the program. After an interview and a firm handshake with Powell, Klintmalm packed up his family and moved from Sweden to Dallas.
He's been here since, building a world-renowned transplant program just east of downtown a program that celebrated its 30th year in existence last week.
It is the challenge that makes us take these steps, to go forward where no one else has dared to go,? Klintmalm says. I don't care if that's climbing the North Face or Yosemite or setting sail and traveling from Portugal to the Americas, it's the challenge that makes people do things that are out of the ordinary.
That first year, in 1984, Klintmalm said his team performed 30 procedures. Now, in 2015, there have been 3,841 total. Klintmalm has helped literally write the book on liver transplants. A third edition of Transplantation of the Liver will be released this year. Baylor has expanded its program to include transplants of nearly every major organ, including lungs and kidneys and the heart.
To read full story please go here:
http://healthcare.dmagazine.com/2015/01/26/baylors-transplant-program/
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Date and Time
Thursday May 4, 2017
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CDT
May 4, 6-9 PM
6PM-6.30PM Networking, drinks and Hors d'Oeuvres
6.30PM-7.15PM Presentation and Q&A
7.15PM-9PM Networking
Location
Maggiano's Little Italy (go to Banquet building)
6001, W Park Blvd Plano, TX 75093
Fees/Admission
(members only, spouses, friends or significant others not included)
The fee includes Hors d'Oeuvres and one glass of wine/beer
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