REIMAGINE 2025 Symposium

This year’s theme, “If You Could Change One Thing: Bold Ideas for Reimagining Organ Donation and Transplantation,” reflects our commitment to challenging the status quo and driving meaningful change in the field. The REIMAGINE 2025 symposium will bring together bold, interdisciplinary ideas to reimagine the future of organ donation and transplantation. Sessions will focus on system redesign, emerging technologies, public engagement, and building trust in the system. Equally central is the role of compassion—and the growing science behind it—in shaping more holistic and effective practices. These topics underscore our belief that lasting change requires both structural innovation and human connection.

Please visit symposium website for additional details: https://surgery.ucsd.edu/research/center-for-organ-donation-research-education-innovation/annual-symposium.html

1. Employ mindfulness and compassionate communication techniques within professional settings and adapt them for use at home institutions to foster more open and collaborative working environments.
2. Discuss best practices to reestablish public trust in living and deceased organ donation, particularly in response to negative media coverage.
3. Develop best practices to reestablish public trust in living and deceased organ donation, particularly in response to negative media coverage.
4. Identify at least two transformative strategies to improve the organ donation and transplantation system that also support the mental health and well-being of stakeholders.

Join leaders, innovators, clinicians, researchers, patients, donor families, and policy thinkers from around the country for a dynamic three-day symposium exploring the future of organ donation and transplantation.

AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 11.25 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report up to 11.25 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing education for pharmacists coursework which meets the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and is accepted as continuing education by the Medical Board of California.

Cancellation Policy:  The full course tuition is refundable, less $50 if your cancellation is received in writing one week prior to program start date. No refunds will be allowed after this date. Please send your cancellation request to [email protected]. In the unlikely event that the course is canceled, UC San Diego is responsible for a full refund of the registration fee only.

Accommodations: We are committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to all individuals. For general information or to request reasonable accommodations, please contact [email protected] at your earliest convenience.

All in-person events are wheelchair accessible.  Service animals specifically trained to assist a person with a disability are welcome. No other animals, including pets, therapy animals, or emotional support animals, are allowed.

Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias: Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content.  Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CME website. 

Audio / Video Consent: This event may be audio and/or video recorded for future use or distribution. For virtual events, any engagement during the presentation (audio, video, chat, Q&A submission, etc.) will be captured and included. Participant microphones and cameras are generally disabled by default, and can always be manually disabled by participant. Depending on the type of event, publication of the recordings might be on a publicly available website or on an access-restricted site. By registering for this event, you give UC San Diego the right to use your name, voice, image, written text, or video footage without compensation and waive the right to inspect or approve any document in which these appear.

Covid-19 Health & Safety: We follow state and local guidelines and protocols related to COVID-19 safety measures. At this time, no restrictions are in place for the State of California and San Diego County.  We encourage each attendee to decide what works for them and wear a face mask if that is their preferred choice.  We reserve the right to update COVID related expectations at any time, should local and state guidelines change and prevailing COVID rates increase.

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All persons in a position to control the content of accredited education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming their role in the accredited activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education, are mitigated prior to the activity.

CME staff, meeting planners, peer reviewers, editorial staff, and CME committee reviewers, do not have any relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The UC San Diego School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.