Dr. Barry Hong will present the status of solid organ donation with recent follow-up data about the long-term outcomes of these donors. The presentation will also cover the need for psychological/psychiatric education in screening individuals to be living donors. Some ethical issues will be discussed as well as a new ongoing program designed to help individuals who lack financial support to be a living donor. One hundred and twenty thousand Americans need an organ transplant. In 2015, 30,000 received a transplant. Ninety-five percent of U.S. adults support organ donation but less than fifty percent have signed donor cards.

Barry A. Hong, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Psychology. He is the Vice-Chairman for Clinical Affairs in Psychiatry and the Chief Psychologist for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Dr. Hong has been a consultant with the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the Division of Transplantation (HRSA). His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concerning living organ donors, hepatitis C treatments and the study of interstitial cystitis (functional pain). He has been one of a team of NIH investigators who have conducted medical and psychological follow-up studies of over 2,500 living kidney donors and several hundred living lung donors from multiple transplant centers. Presently, he is working with the National Living Donor Assistance Program (NLDAC), a federally sponsored project which has facilitated over 3,500 living kidney transplants and developing a proposal to reimburse lost wages to living donors.

He has his PhD from Saint Louis University and is a Diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Describe living organ donation history, characteristics and challenges.
2. Discuss aspects of psychological and ethical issues involved in living donation evaluations.
3. Be familiar with a living donor program to support financially disadvantaged families and friends
wishing to become living donors.

CE 2.0 Hours (for Missouri psychologists only)

LOCATION AND TIME:
Guo Bin Chinese Restaurant 6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Registration and Cash Bar
8600 Delmar 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Buffet Dinner
St. Louis, MO 63124 7:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. Program
314-997-0906

COST:
$40 for paid SLPA members (dinner and CE included).
$40 for non-psychologist guests (dinner only; no CE certificate issued).
$25 for paid SLPA student members.
$60 for non-members psychologists (dinner and CE included).

Please mail your check for $40, $25 or $60 (see above) made payable to SLPA to:

Barbara Levin
12773 Castlebar Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146

** Your payment and reservation must be received by Monday, April 17, 2017 **