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The TransplantLyfe – Temple Health 2025 Patient Summit featured dynamic panel discussions where patient-identified challenges were addressed directly by medical experts, researchers, and patients. Attendees heard real stories from patients and families and received practical tips from healthcare providers that they could use right away. All sessions were delivered in simple, everyday language.
We aimed to bridge the gap between the medical world and the everyday challenges that patients face. At the summit, we talked openly about real barriers such as navigating the healthcare system, understanding medical information, managing costs, and building trust with providers. The focus was on elevating the patient voice and sharing practical, down-to-earth advice that patients, families, and professionals could all put into practice.
Whether someone was a patient, care partner, or clinician, the TransplantLyfe – Temple Health 2025 Patient Summit offered a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from others, and to become more empowered in their transplant care.
Who is Attending?
The Patient Summit was a free event for:
- People with end stage disease and/or on dialysis
- People waiting for an organ transplant
- Current transplant recipients
- Care partners (family or friends who help care for someone)
- Organ donors
- Anyone who wants to learn more about transplant
This is a full day of learning, sharing, and connecting. You can join in person or watch online.
Free parking and lunch will be provided.
Agenda
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | The Patient Journey
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Dialysis to Transplant: Preparation
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Refreshments & Connection Break
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Organ Donation
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch & Patient Meet-Up
1:00 PM– 1:45 PM | Living with a Transplant
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | The Future of Transplantation: Innovation & Hope
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM | Lightning Sessions: Medications, Diet & Lifestyle, Care Partners
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Wrap-Up, Q&A, and Networking Reception
WHY ATTEND?
Connect
Connect with others who share your experience.
Innovate
Join the conversation about making transplant care better for everyone.
Thank You To Our Supporters
Eledon Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biotechnology company with immunology expertise that is developing therapies to protect and prevent rejection of transplanted organs, as well as to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The Company’s lead compound in development is tegoprubart, an anti-CD40L antibody with high affinity for CD40 Ligand (also called “CD154”), a well-validated biological target with broad therapeutic potential.
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. We aim to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and inform earlier, more targeted interventions that help lead to longer, healthier lives.
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across the world, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Gift of Life Donor Program is the federally designated organ procurement organization for the eastern half of PA, southern NJ, and DE. Gift of Life leads the nation in donors and transplants, partnering with hospitals and transplant centers in the region and throughout the country to help end the transplant waitlist.
Help Hope Live is a top-ranked national nonprofit that supports community based fundraising for people with unmet medical and related expenses due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses.
Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines.
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Asahi Kasei company, is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of transplant patients. Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, Veloxis is focused on the global development and commercialization of medications utilized by transplant patients and by patients with serious related diseases. For further information, please visit www.veloxis.com.
Patient Care America, a leading national provider of nutritional therapies for malnourished dialysis patients, is a healthcare service organization comprised of dedicated professionals committed to delivering the highest quality patient care to achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes.
Brought to you by
Lyfebulb, a Patient Care America company, empowers people living with a chronic condition through innovation, education and connectivity. Lyfebulb delivers these services to the transplant community through its digital platform, TransplantLyfe and TransplantLyfe365. TransplantLyfe is a platform for recipients, care partners, and donors to improve outcomes by connecting with others in a safe, moderated environment and accessing curated educational content by medical experts and patients. Its companion app, TransplantLyfe365, allows patients to track health metrics, symptoms, medications, and notes to improve provider visits.
Temple Health has a history of excellence when it comes to organ transplantation. Our program performed Philadelphia’s first heart transplant in 1984, and since that time we have performed over 2,500 organ transplants.
Over the last three decades, Temple physicians, surgeons and medical staff have dedicated themselves to providing the best quality transplant care, consistently meeting or exceeding the national survival rates. In addition, our surgeons have pioneered methods to improve organ donor health and avoid post-transplant complications. The Temple Transplant team is dedicated to helping patients live longer, better lives.
