Sep 9, 2020
Amy Waterman directs the
Transplant Research and Education Center at UCLA. She works with
patients navigating any disease of the kidney and helps educate
them on corresponding choices, from dialysis treatment to getting
on a transplant list.
She discusses
In addition to directing the Transplant Center, Amy D. Waterman is
a Professor in Residence at the University of California in Los
Angeles in the division of nephrology. She's a psychologist with an
expertise on managing patient behavior toward healthy goals.
At the center, she works alongside
nephrologists and other professionals to guide patents through
choices and the complicated process of facing
kidney disease. She researches and tests methods that might
help educate and engage patients and evaluates how to work more
effectively with providers.
She describes for listeners the
process a patient moves through, from typical questions they have
to choices they can make, and for those that need a transplant, how
to enter into searches for a donation from family members to
strangers to someone who has passed away. She adds that there is a
donor contingent called non-directed donors. These are strangers
who step forward and offer a kidney as a living donor.
In fact, over 6,000 living people donate a kidney each year. Dr.
Waterman also describes the physical process of donation, what
might be in the works for
kidney disease cures, and how she became involved with this
important work in the first place.
Find out more about her
work at exploretransplant.org
or explorelivingdonation.org.
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