pkDO: 2022 In Review
JANUARY 1, 2023
Today: Expand Live Donor Pool
After researching various alternatives to provide patients hands on assistance in finding a live kidney donor, University of Utah Health(“UofU”) is in the final stages of preparing for a 10 patient trial, with a experienced outsourced organization.
This organization is staffed by highly trained individuals that have over a decade of experience dealing with live transplants and the desire to build a scalable organization to provide this service for UofU and many other transplant centers.
pkDO’s UofU initiative has already facilitated a live liver donation that was already in the news [Read Now]
In preparation for the trial, UofU has identified the 10 participants and has made enhancements to their internal protocols and staffing to provide white glove treatment to an increased volume of potential live donor candidates.
In addition to UofU, pkDO has aligned itself with a parallel initiative that is being undertaken by Northwell Health that has hired an internal coordinator to assist patients with finding live kidney donors. UofU and Northwell are collaborating together and sharing knowledge as each medical center experiments with a different model to get to the same end results of more live donor transplants.
pkDO is targeting to see real results from both initiatives within the next six months.
Tomorrow: Delay Progression of PKD
While there has been great progress in identifying solutions to help young adults slow the progression of the disease and significantly delay kidney failure as well as provide a proven solution to prevent PKD from being passed down to future generations, these solutions are not well known within the broader medical community and are not adequately being communicated to the young adults that can act on this information.
pkDO is actively working on developing effective call to action handouts with QR codes to compelling video content to create awareness amongst young adults and point them to the medical professionals that can help them.
Next Gen: Stop Passing to the Next Generation
pkDO has created partnerships between the transplant clinics, dietitians, and maternal medicine departments at both UofU and Northwell Health to provide young adults with the medical services they need to implement these solutions.
In 1Q23 both UofU and Northwell Health are targeted to start having their nurses share pkDO’s handouts to their patients in the transplant clinics in the hope that these patients will share this content with their young adult children.
pkDO will also provide funding for PGT-M to prevent
Website/Ambassadors & Fund Raising
pkDO began it’s fund raising efforts on Jan 18, 2022 and within three weeks raised nearly $500k from over 300 individuals. pkDO’s Founder, Richard Kellner personally matched funds which gave pkDO nearly $1mm to get our programs implemented. We currently have ample funds to launch pkDO’s initiatives to work on a proof of concept basis. Additional funds will not be raised until our programs are effective and ready to scale.
