Living Kidney Donation: Partnering to Reduce Transplant
Disparities in Rhode Island

Lifespan Community Health Ambassadors VIRTUAL Lecture

Join us for a presentation on Living Kidney Donation at Rhode Island Hospital. An
overview of the kidneys and how they work, kidney disease, barriers to treatment and
goals to reduce disparities in transplant will be provided. Materials will be available.
REGISTER here or contact jnessett@lifespan.org

Basma Merhi, MD, is a transplant nephrologist in the Division of Organ Transplantation at Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School

Lori Cragan, LICSW is a social worker in the Division of Organ Transplantation at Rhode Island Hospital and in private practice at The Center for Change in Warwick