The 2010 Annual Conference will take place October 20-22 at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta, GA. For more information, please contact the Atlanta 2010 Chairperson, David Cooper, at: david.cooper@choa.org, or by phone at 404-785-6047. Please click here for a PowerPoint Presentation about the upcoming conference!

“CALL FOR PAPERS”

The Planning Committee is requesting abstracts for presentation at this conference and encourages you to submit a proposal.

A few topic suggestions include:

Any psychosocial issue related to the disease and/or transplant of heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and small bowel:

The committee would like to continue the theme of last year’s conference and emphasize the Future of Transplantation/Innovations and “Toolbox” i.e. specific therapy interventions, motivational interviewing, engagement during the psychosocial eval, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

For a list of presentations at the 2009 conference, please click here.

Please encourage your colleagues (nursing, psychiatry, etc) who may be interested in sharing their innovative ideas with transplant social workers, to submit their work.

Bio/CV and learning objectives must be included with abstract. Submissions should be sent online in Microsoft Word attachment format, no later than March 15, 2010. Please send to:

Jane Harrison, LCSW

Email: jane.harrison@inova.org

703 776-3203

Please contact me for the abstract guidelines

<Click Here> for Call For Papers Announcement

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The 2009 Annual Conference of the Society for Transplant Social Workers was held in Cleveland , Ohio.

Areas of focus were Chemical Dependency, Innovations in Transplant, Ethics of Transplant, Donor Issues and a "Toolbox" of clinical interventions. Please click here for a detailed conference agenda.