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Go inside the challenging world of pediatric renal transplant with Dr. Robert Gillespie and Dr. Blake Palmer and explore how their unique approach goes beyond traditional care. 
Robert Gillespie, M.D.Blake Palmer, M.D.
Related Information:Cook Children's Nephrology and DialysisCook Children's Renal Transplant Program
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 Host:    Today we're talking with doctor Robert Gillespie and doctor Blake Palmer of Cook Children’s Renal Transplant Program. It's very busy in the Child Life Zone today so you may hear a little background noise. And before we get started just a little background on our guests.
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 Dr. Gillespie is the medical director for nephrology and kidney transplantation and Dr. Palmer is the medical director of urology here at Cook Children’s. Doctor Gillespie earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed his fellowship at University of Washington Seattle Children’s. Dr. Gillespie has written extensively for peer reviewed medical publications and has given many presentations to medical groups around the country. His professional activities include international outreach programs development of computer based tools for nephrologists and he has actively participated in numerous research studies.In the summers he serves as a camp doctor for Camp Reynal a summer camp for children with kidney diseases.
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 Dr. Palmer earned his medical degree from University of Oklahoma and completed both the research and clinic fellow at University of Oklahoma department of pediatric urology. He is board certified in urology with a subspecialty certification in pediatric urology. His work has been published in multiple peer reviewed journals and he's a nationally recognized presenter and a member of the American Urology Association, American Academy of Pediatrics section of pediatric urology, Society of Pediatric Urology, American Academy of Pediatric Urologists, Society of Fetal Urology, and the American College of Surgeons. He has special certification by the American College of Surgeons in fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery.
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 Welcome, you are both clearly very busy so thank you for sitting with us today.
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 Dr. Palmer:      Our pleasure.
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Dr. Gillespie: Yeah thank you.
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 Host:    So, doctor Palmer, for over a quarter of a century Cook Children’s kidney transplant program has been breaking ground in kidney transplants and is currently the second largest renal transplant program in the state serving not only children in Texas but in surrounding states as well. The program is also a recognized center of excellence by Optum and UnitedHealth but one of the really unique advantages of this program is the team approach between urology and nephrology can you tell us a bit about your partnership and how it benefits pediatric patients.
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 Dr. Palmer:      So I'm happy to talk about our program here. We're really proud of our team approach, we have a team of dedicated pediatric nephrologists and we work with our pediatric urology team very closely and which myself as a specifically tra...

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