Please join us on Friday, Feb. 27, for the first session of the Jens Goebel Collaborative Case Series, a new forum for medical directors focused on shared learning through complex pediatric kidney transplant cases sponsored by the Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative. In honor of Jens’ memory, IROC—the collaborative that he helped found and lead—has established this monthly session for all who are interested in joining a discussion about an interesting case.

Join us for a one-hour discussion featuring Dr. Paul Grimm (Stanford) presenting “The Kidney Was Working Yesterday: A Post-Op Detective Story,” followed by Q&A.

Session focus:

• Review of a complex pediatric kidney transplant case

• Key clinical and system-level discussion points

• Collaborative problem-solving across centers

Visit the IROC Hub for registration information. This event is open to all IROC Network members.

Network members interested in contributing to the development of standardized clinical care pathways to treat rejection are invited to join us for a pre-event the day before the Nov. 13-14 Fall Learning Session on Wednesday, November 12 at the Cincinnati Westin Hotel. Find the registration link in your email or visit the IROC Hub.

IROC will host a day of focused discussion and consensus-building exercises to finalize a set of standardized rejection care pathways and associated measures.

This work will build on the presentations and workshops of IROC's 2024 Fall Learning Session that centered on the current state of rejection treatment, active research on this topic within IROC, and the groundwork laid to develop a set of standardized pathways for certain types of rejection.

Participation Requirements

• Participants must be a member of the IROC Network

• Able to attend the full session (12:00-6:00 pm ET)

• Committed to completing all event pre-work (est. 10 hours). This includes the review of proposed pathways, completion of feedback surveys, and review of related journal literature

• Come prepared to engage in the pre-event activities

IROC Members: Join us for our Virtual Mini Learning Session on Thursday, May 15, from 3 - 5 p.m. ET! Find the registration link in your email or visit the IROC Hub.

Learning sessions bring together patients, parents, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and other site team members to connect and learn. We are excited to offer a new, abbreviated approach focusing on Network advancements and extracting value from our data to guide improvement efforts.

The session's theme is IROC Improvement Investigators: Following the Data Clues to Solve the Quality Case.

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Session objectives include:

• Inspect Network priorities, progress, and evolving framework to support the IROC mission.​

• Illustrate the 2025 CEW key focus areas and recommend resources for patient and caregiver mental health.​

• Investigate the use of registry data for quality improvement and demonstrate applications in center IROC activities.​

IROC Members: Registration is NOW OPEN for our Spring 2024 Virtual Learning Session! Join us on Friday, March 1 for our 16th learning session. Find the registration link in your email or visit the IROC Community Platform.

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IROC learning sessions are valuable opportunities for our entire learning health network community—patients, parents, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and other site team members—to come together to build community, learn about the network’s latest work, share learnings, discuss important topics, and outline key actions to take through the next six-month period. The timeframe following a learning session is called the action period. Learning sessions are meant to inform and catalyze the work of the action period with the ultimate goal of partnering with patients who have kidney disease and their families to improve health, longevity, and quality of life.