Events - ISN Transplantation Working Group Webinar: Kidney transplantation at scale – from clinical care to education and research

Hospital do Rim has developed one of the world’s largest kidney transplant programs, demonstrating how scale, organization, and standardized processes can expand access while maintaining excellent clinical outcomes. This webinar will explore the model behind large-scale kidney transplantation and discuss how such an environment can also serve as a platform for education and research, engaging medical students and young physicians in clinically relevant transplant research.

• Identify the organizational principles and processes required to develop and sustain a large-scale kidney transplant program.
• Discuss how scale, standardization, and continuous improvement can expand access to transplantation while maintaining high-quality clinical outcomes.
• Explore how a high-volume transplant environment can be leveraged as a platform for education and clinically relevant research.
• Recognize strategies for engaging medical students and young physicians in transplant research and developing the next generation of transplant professionals.

Further reading:

• Medina-Pestana JO. Organization of a high-volume kidney transplant program—The “assembly line” approach. Transplantation. 2006;81(11):1510–1520. DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000214934.48677.e2.
• Pestana JM. A pioneering healthcare model applying large-scale production concepts: Principles and performance after more than 11,000 transplants at Hospital do Rim. Rev Assoc Med Bras. 2016;62(7):664–671. DOI: 10.1590/1806-9282.62.07.664.
• Pestana, Jose Medina. Excellence and Efficiency Through a Structured Large-Scale Approach. Transplantation, 2017, 101: 1735-1738.
• Vaz ML, Requião-Moura L, Pestana JM. Hospital do Rim: 25 years as the global leader in kidney transplants. J Bras Nefrol. 2024;46(3):410–411