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National Events - 2008
January: National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
A time to highlight the importance of giving life through the donation of blood and to honor past and present donors and
encourage new ones. The theme, Give Blood ..The Gift of Life, is as constant, as the need for blood.
February 9: Conference - New Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation
New Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation
Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Dana on Mission Bay, San Diego, California
Scripps Clinic is pleased to invite you to attend the New Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation conference.
Our comprehensive, one-day CME program will feature an array of important topics in transplantation including updates
on immunosuppression, complex lipid management in the transplant patient, transplanting the difficult patient, genomics
and post-transplant patient monitoring.
Educational Objectives
After participating in this course, the attendee should be able to:
- Summarize the outcomes of transplant and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) as revealed in the transplant patient registries.
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- Describe the management of Hyperlipidemia in the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and transplant patient.
- Discuss therapies to transplant across an ABO or positive cross match barrier.
- Describe the interplay between transplant genomics and immunosuppression.
- Cite new immunosuppressive strategies for solid organ transplantation.
Scripps Clinic designates this educational activity for a maximum number of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Fees
Physicians
Other
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Before Dec. 31
$185
$115
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After Dec. 31
$210
$140
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Meredith Insch
Conference Planner
Scripps Conference Services & CME
10666 N. Torrey Pines Road, GEN 2
La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel 858-587-4325
Fax 858-587-4438
www.scripps.org/conferenceservices
March: Winter World Transplant Games
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Alternating even-numbered years
The Finnish Transplant Sports Association will host the Winter World Transplant Games for 2008.
The games will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland March 25 - 30,.2008
The location for the Games is only kilometres away from the Arctic Circle in the deep of Lapland!
Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, is an international town of winter sports and is located at the
confluence of Lapland’s mighty rivers Kemijoki and Ounasjoki. As the capital of the province,
Rovaniemi has always been a gateway to Lapland.
Events include: 3 km skiing, 1 hour skiing, 3 km relay, Biathlon, Slalom, Parallel slalom,
Giant Slalom, Super G, Snowboarding (slalom), Parallel snowboarding (slalom), and Curling.
More Winter World Transplant Games information
April: National Donate Life Month
Organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, and other
organizations sponsor special awareness events and donor recognition ceremonies to promote donation awareness.
July: National Donor Recognition Workshop
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Ceremony -
Alternating odd-numbered years
Donors and their families from across the country are honored in the Nation's Capital by the Federal
government and the transplant community for giving the Gift of Life. Includes Saturday workshops and
a donor recognition ceremony on Sunday.
More Donor Recognition Workshop & Ceremony Information
July: U.S. Transplant Games
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Alternating even-numbered years
Olympic-style athletic events for transplant recipients celebrate the life-enabling gifts given by
organ and tissue donors. Organized by the National Kidney Foundation. Medals are awarded to recipient
winners, and to living donors and donor family members at separate recognition ceremonies. The
Transplant Games illustrate that transplantation works to extend and enhance life.
More U.S. Transplant Games information
August 1: National Minority Donor Awareness Day
Intensive awareness campaign focuses on obstacles related to minorities and donation, promotes healthy living and disease
prevention to decrease the need for transplantation and reaches out to all ethnic groups.
Observances have included prayer breakfasts, health walks, and donor drives.
November: National Marrow Awareness Month
A special nationwide effort to recruit volunteer marrow, blood stem cell, and umbilical cord blood donors and to increase
patient awareness of the option of unrelated transplantation. More marrow donation information
(not a U.S. government Web site)
November: Two Weekends Before Thanksgiving: National Donor Sabbath
Faith communities across the country focus on the critical need for organs, tissues, marrow, and blood, and their
life-enhancing capabilities.
Faith leaders participate in discussions of donation with their congregants, and faith communities sponsor donation awareness
activities during this 3-day celebration of life.
National Donor Sabbath 2006
The St. Louis Chapter of the Second Wind Lung Transplant Association, Inc.
Announces
Fifth Annual LUNG WALK - "Every Breath Counts"
DATE: To be determined
TIME: Registration 8:00 am, Start Time 9:00 am
LOCATION: Historic Forest Park in St. Louis Missouri
ENTRANCE FEE: $25.00; $30.00 race day
The Lung Walk benefits the Second Wind Assistance Fund which is a charitable provider of limited financial assistance to lung transplant patients of St. Louis area providers. The fund is designed to help pay for medical and other related expenses that are of an emergency or non-insured nature.
Prizes, Awards, Food, Booths, Entertainment.
For additional information visit www.secondwindstl.org
Call 636-343-0667 or 314-664-6360
Please, help us make life better for those waiting for a life-saving Lung Transplant.
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