Pediatric Transplant Symposium Welcome Remarks

Dr. Lorraine Hamiwka, the Chair of the Planning Committee, shares Opening Remarks for the Symposium.
Dr. Lorraine Hamiwka is the Interim Section Head in Pediatric
Nephrology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and an Associate
Professor at the University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine.
She is the Past-Chair of the Pediatric Group of the Canadian Society of
Transplantation and a current theme co-lead for the CDTRP. She is the
Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at the Alberta
Children’s Hospital and leads the “Young Adult Kidney Transplant
Clinic” in Calgary designed to improve young adult kidney transplant
recipients’ healthcare experience. Dr. Hamiwka research interests
include clinical outcomes and quality of life in pediatric kidney transplant
recipients. She is also involved in several national multicenter transplant
research collaborations as well as many national transplant initiatives.