Patient seminar "Corona vaccination and organ transplantation"

Heart, lung, liver, kidney: Video of the event for patients before and after organ transplantation and their relatives

How effective and safe are the vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus? How do they differ? What do transplant patients need to consider? On March 15, 2021, the interdisciplinary Transplant Centre at Hannover Medical School (MHH) informed patients before and after transplantation as well as their relatives about the topic of "Corona vaccination and organ transplantation". Experts from the MHH Transplant Centre presented the current scientific status and answered questions. The seminar was recorded and can be viewed here.

Watch the recording of the event!

The speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Heiner Wedemeyer, Director of the Clinical Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology,
  • Prof. Dr. Hermann Haller, Director of the Clinical Department of Nephrology and Hypertension,
  • Prof. Dr. Tobias Welte, Director of the Clinical Department of Pneumology,
  • Prof. Dr. Christine Falk, Head of the Institute for Transplantation Immunology,
  • Dr. Elmar Jäckel, Clinical Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology.

 

Status: March 22, 2021