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EVENTS
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9th Annual
Recognition Gala |
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Date:
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April 25, 2008 |
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Ritz Carlton Dearborn |
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5:30 p.m./Reception |
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6:00 p.m.
Dinner/Program, Dancing until Midnight |
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contribute Now! |
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The International
Association for Organ Donation needs
your support now. There are 96,000
people waiting on the national
transplant waitlist, 3,208 of which live
in the state of Michigan. Please help us
in our efforts to educate the public
about organ, tissue and bone marrow
donation. |
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Sign up online to
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New IAOD Board Member |
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We would like to
welcome our new board member
Yvette Pugh
Director External Affairs
AT & T |
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In The News |
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An Underused Source of Extra-Renal
Organs
According to the UNOS News Bureau,
5/07/2007, researchers discussed their
findings at the American Transplant
Congress on the use of organs from known
drug users. In most cases, organs from
registered donors with a known drug
addiction, (cigarettes, alcohol
dependency, cocaine, IV drugs and other
drug use) are not recovered because of
said use. A comparison was done on the
survival and functionality of liver and
heart recovery rates from donors with a
history of drug use and that of a
non-drug user. The findings showed that
there was a small difference
statistically, but the clinical
differences in survival was small,
signifying that there may possibly be
another significant source of
transplantable organs available.
Medication Errors Common for
Transplant Patients
In the March journal of Archives of
Surgery, a research team from Yale
University School of Medicine identified
149 medication errors in 93 liver,
kidney and pancreas transplant patients
who were taking an average of about 11
medications each.
It seems that the most common problem
stemed from the patient themselves,
followed by prescription and delivery
errors, the next was availability errors
in the cases of patients not having
enough time to replenish there
medication. These errors resulted in
adverse events, including:
hospitalization, outpatient procedures,
episodes of rejection and failed
transplants. The root causes of the
medication errors were the patient
(68%); health care providers (27%
including 10% by transplant teams) and
financial issues (5%). The study authors
stated medication errors are often the
result of communication breakdowns. It
is suggested that centralized records
and streamlined methods could improve
the processes, which would likely give
patients confidence in the medical
staffs ability to help them.
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Newsletter Sponsor
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Message
form the President: |
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I want to personally thank
the speakers, attendees and everyone involved in
making this year’s gala fundraiser and education
sessions a success. A host of physicians,
students, and corporate representatives from
various parts of the world attended the Gala and
World Summit hosted by the IAOD and Wayne State
University School of Medicine. We hope to
continuously bring information to the organ
donation and transplantation community as well
as recognize and celebrate the joy of new life
bought about through the gift of life.
Next year’s gala, April 25, 2008, will be in
recognition of the children around the world who
suffer from the lack of awareness and
willingness to donate life.
In closing, my sincere gratitude goes to all
those who continue to open their hearts, answer
their phones and lend their support to the IAOD,
for without you we would not be able to do what
we do.
Fouad Beydoun, PhD
President
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2007 “Celebrating Life
After Transplant” Gala and World Summit on Organ
Donation: |
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We are please to say
the reviews have been great. There were
interesting dialogues bought about by topics on
transplant tourism and illegal harvesting of
organs in various parts of the country, as well
as new technologies and issues such as first
person consent. Attendees of the Summit received
a maximum of 10.25 CME credits for attending the
complete day and a half sessions.
The “Celebrating Life After Transplant” Gala was
extremely exciting; from the dancers escorting
the celebrated recipients, to our auction and
raffle drawing, and of course our event would
not be complete without the famous saxophonist,
Randy Scott. The new addition of the evening,
dancing after the program, was well received and
we hope will next year become one of the
highlights of the evening.
Our gracious, Corporate Award Benefactor
recipient, Tom LaSorda, President and CEO of the
Chrysler Group was eloquent when discussing the
heart warming story of his sister’s struggle
after two heart attacks and her need for a
transplant, as well as his gratitude to those
who have helped his family through this trying
time.
We thank DaimlerChrysler, GM, Ford and the Ritz
Carlton for their generous contributions to our
auction. As always, our annual gala would not be
a success without the continued support of all
of our sponsors: DaimlerChrysler, GM, Ford,
Oakwood, DMC, Henry Ford Health System, BCBSM,
Epoch Restaurant Group, Roche, Wayne State
University School of Medicine, Astellas,
University of Michigan Health System, Beaumont,
the Karoub Family, in addition to our many
community sponsors, and WWJ 950 our media
sponsor.
Unfortunately, we were unable to provide
syllabus to the attendees of the Summit, however
those who would like a copy of the presentations
can go to our website,
www.iaod.org/events. A video stream of the
entire two days is available for viewing.
For World Summit and
Gala presentations and video stream access go
to:
http://iaod.org/events
Look for information regarding next year’s gala
on April 25, 2008 at the Ritz Carlton
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Statistics Today |
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National
Overall Statistics for the US
Waiting List: |
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All Organs |
Kidney |
Liver |
Pancreas |
Kidney/Pancreas |
Heart |
Lung |
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96,047 |
71,813 |
16,896 |
1,674 |
2,332 |
2,760 |
2,733 |
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Michigan Statistics for the Waiting
List: |
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All Organs |
Kidney |
Liver |
Pancreas |
Kidney/Pancreas |
Heart |
Lung |
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3,208 |
2,659 |
425 |
34 |
53 |
69 |
45 |
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2007 IAOD
Conference and Banquet Sponsors |
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