“Living Donor Safety:

still wondering after all those years”

Michelle A. Josephson, MD

Medical Director, Kidney Transplant, University of Chicago

Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

1. Articulate the risk of kidney failure after kidney donation.
2. Verbalize how APOL1 may influence the outcomes of kidney donors and recipients.
3. Discuss the availability of a tool that predicts baseline risk of kidney failure in individuals who have not donated a kidney.