Welcome to TRIO . . .
Special Leadership Summit/Anniversary Dinner feature:
Videos
of TRIO's 1991 and 1992 Conventions (<-- click
here)
Thanks
to everyone who participated in our recent
TRIO "post
transplant sex survey" in support of
our Leadership Summit workshop on the topic:
"Post Transplant Intimacy"-
While that survey is now closed but you can view the
Leadership Summit video recording of that workshop and
the raw data results of the survey by clicking here: 2012
Leadership Summit
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TRIO is an independent, not-for-profit, international organization committed to improving the quality of life of transplant candidates, recipients, their families and the families of organ and tissue donors.

TRIO national board meets at CORE Sept 28th, 2012 with chapter guests
News of TRIO and Transplant

2013 Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest:
"What My Transplant Nurse Means to Me" - offered by ITNS (<- click here to see details)
New web site feature: Volume 4 of Transplant Presentation Library new titles added WITH links to flyers for full topic/speaker details (see Presentation Library under Communications category above - i.e. use the navigation menu for those links)
New web site feature: Member stories
With the Spring issue, we are offering expanded articles linked from shorter Lifeline articles to fuller versions here. We began with two member stories (Jan's and Claude's) and are expanding to more over the months and years to come. Click on each title to go to that article:
News from TRIO National (updated 1/8/13)
- TRIO Maryland: new chapter chartered
- January
TRIO Member E-news now available
- Lifelines
January issue available NOW and in color
(hard copy is also going out in the US mails)
- TRIO's
Ana Stenzel writes about PCP in her blog
- Leadership Summit videos and pictures are now posted (20 videos and many new photos)
- TRIO's
"Post Transplant Intimacy" survey results posted
(PDF document)
- TRIO
Board adopts strategic plan (
PDF document )
- TRIO board elects Steve Okonek to national board (see
board member profile)
- TRIO board forms Medical Advisory Board
- Videos of TRIO's 1991 and 1992 Conventions
News from TRIO Chapters (updated 12/26/12)
- TRIO
Manhattan offers: Fox & Friends video of
donor/recipient meeting story

- TRIO
San Francisco Bay newsletter posted
- TRIO
Ventura County West Valley chapter president in
magazine story
- Akron/Canton
Chapter Newsletter posted (with excellent summaries
of Leadership Summit sessions)
- NY State Passes
Lauren's Law with Long Island and Manhattan chapter
support
- TRIO
Philadelphia Activity report updated with Newsletter
and video
- TRIO
Philadelphia launches chapter web site
- Kansas City
Chapter May update
Rx & Insurance News (updated 12/18/12)
- Grapefruit
Is a Culprit In More Drug Reactions
- Study
of Steroid and CNI Immunosuppression Withdrawal
Post-Transplant
- Beating
the Odds, and a Storm, to Get a Transplant
- Federal
government releases long-awaited health reform rules
- Novartis'
Certican succeeds in phase III liver transplant
trial
- Why
I Decided to Opt Out of Medicare As a Provider
- Drug
Shortages Persist in U.S., Harming Care
- A
consumer's guide to health reform, post election
- Living
organ donors face insurance risks
- Summary
of Healthcare Reform Effects on Patient Coverage
Patient News of TRIO Interest (updated 1/5/13)
- Running
Coach Receives Liver from 86 Year Old Donor
(You're never too old to donate - see mention of several
92 year-old donors)
- A
Day in the Life of a Liver transplant Team
- Penn
Medicine (Philadelphia, PA) Performs 1000th Heart
transplant
- New
Nursing Job Board link added to TRIO's links'
section (under Professional Organizations)
- Heartbeat:
A perfect match in every way (Canada)
- Transplant:
A Gift for Life (1 hour made for TV video)
- Newark
NJ Heart Transplant Continues Despite Devastating
Storm Sandy
- Rock
Climber Exceeds Expectations After Double Lung
Transplant
- "The
Power of Two" releases 9/25 on DVD (<--
click for Amazon ordering page)
- Heart
in a box (donor heart arrives "warm & beating"
inside box) (video)
- Heart
Recipient Shares Story of Hope (video)
UNOS & Donation News (updated 1/2/13)
* latest monthly UNOS registration/patient listing summary report
* latest monthly UNOS registration/patient listing summary cover page
Note: for real-time waiting list candidate and registration data or answers to other transplant related data questions, go to UNOS.ORG
- Husband
Undergoes Transformation to Help Wife Get New Kidney
- UNOS
long time leader, Walter Graham, announces his
retirement
- UCLA
Performs first 'breathing lung' transplant in United
States
- Improving
Outpatient Management Could Reduce the Rate of
Readmission of Kidney Transplant Patients
- Tax
Incentives and Organ Donation
- Transplant
Recipients At Increased Risk When Low Levels of
Donor-Specific Antibodies Present
- Hospitals
Ordered to Do More to Protect Kidney donors
- When
was the first human organ transplant?
- UNOS offers Kidney Allocation Proposal webinar November 7, 2012 (2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. ET)
- Kidney
transplant surgeon offers hopeful insight on UNOS
kidney proposal process
- Most
Liver Transplant Candidates Receive Donation Offers
- UNOS
calls for public comment on new Kidney allocation
proposal
- Proposed
Kidney Rule Shift Would benefit some kidney patients
on waiting list for transplant
- NY
Times Editorial: Kidney Discards and the New UNOS
Kidney Allocation Proposal
- In
Discarding Kidneys, System Reveals Its Flaws
- UNOS Transplant
calculators for candidates and recipients
- Biomarkers
may give early warning of late heart transplant
rejection
- Study May
Change How Transplant Physicians Practice
- Doctors
evaluating lung transplant candidates for Spectrum
Health's new program (Michigan)
- Heart
Transplants for Older Patients
- Living
Organ Donation Rate Does Not Increase With State Tax
Incentives
- Pastor
Max Lucado preaches on heart transplant (video
sermon)
- Giving
the Gift of Life Through Organ Donation: Chris Barry
at TEDxFlourCity (video)
- (from
Canada) Many Support Financial Incentives to
Encourage Organ Donation
- Replacement
Parts (from The Scientist magazine of Aug 2012)
Transplantation in the World News (updated 1/8/13)
- Blog
post about Rose Parade float experience: The Beginning
(by Amy Waterman, Ph.D.)
- Rejected
Hearts Now Viable for Transplantation After Stress
Echo
- Joseph
E. Murray, Transplant Doctor and Nobel Prize Winner,
Dies at 93
- Organ
Transplant Pioneer Talks About Risks and Rewards
- FDA
approves pump for heart failure patients awaiting
heart transplant
- The Future
of Organ Transplants - No Waiting (Bob Aronson's
blog compilation of transplant science advances -
see his Nov 9th posting with several videos)
- Doctors Make
Mistakes. Can We Talk About That? (TED
video)
- Kidney
Grafts Function Longer in Europe Than in the US
- Old
Houston Salutes an Irreverent Heart Surgeon
- Son
with CF receives living double lung transplant, one
from each parent
TRIO Legislative and National Issue Activity (updated 11/25/12)
Jan 2012 Donate Life Float design:

to view a photo journal of the DLA float in the Rose parade (<-- click here)
and here's float rider, Mary Wu with Ron Taubman,
preparing the float:

Check out this history of the DLA Rose parade floats (<-- click here)


