TRIO 2012 Leadership Summit

TRIO Leaders met at the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) offices
in Pittsburgh, PA September 28 & 29, 2012
for the 2012 Leadership Summit, the TRIO  national board meeting and
a 25th Anniversary Gala Dinnner

BoD members and guests

Board member and guest attendees at 2012 board meeting at CORE

2012 Leadership Summit theme:
"TRIO: Looking Back 25 Years - Moving Forward"

TRIO 2012 Leadership Summit
Speakers and video sessions

The two day event (Sept 28th & 29th, 2012) met with enthusiastic success by the chapter presidents, chapter members, members-at-large and TRIO board members with fourteen powerful workshop session speakers and a keynote address given by UNOS CEO, Walter Graham at the anniversary gals held Friday night.

Chapters attending included:
  • Akron-Canton
  • Greater Cleveland
  • Philadelphia
  • Pittsburgh
  • Long Island
  • Nation's Capital
  • San Francisco
  • Ventura County West Valley
  • plus Members-at-Large and our Youth Circle
Video Recordings - the video recordings for each session are slowly over the next few weeks being made available below for your viewing via YouTube uploads.  Come back daily to see more as the process progresses.

Photos by Susan Pincus, TRIO Secretary & Official Summit Photographer  (see a link to full photo slide set at the bottom of this page)


 
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The following are recordings of the workshop sessions from the 2012 TRIO Leadership Summit, both the formal presentations and the audience Q&A that followed each presentation. More will be added as each video is edited and uploaded, so come back regularly for more . . .

Opening Remarks and prayer, Jim Gleason, TRIO president

 
 

Keynoter: Susan Stuart, CORE presidentSusan Stuart,
  CORE president and CEO

Susan Stuart welcomes TRIO to CORE's new auditorium, the first outside user to enjoy the beautiful high-tech facility.  She explains the role of CORE for their five transplant center community and the surrounding region that reaches out to portions of West Virginia and even a small part of New York State beyond the Western Pennsylvania area.

 

 

 
 

CORE Community Outreach: a luncheon presentation by Misty Enos, Associate Director, Community Outreach for CORE

 
 

Luncheon presentation on Corneal Transplant given by Janice Anderson of the CORE Eye Bank at our opening luncheon . . .

 

Session 1: Finding Meaning in Death: Life as an Organ Donor Specialist, Stefanie Dziedzic, Gift of Hope, Chicago, IL


 
 

Session 2: Effective Public Speaking: Advocating for Organ Donation - case study: UNOS Kidney Allocation Process Proposal call for public comment - Ron Taubman, UNOS Kidney Committee & Jim Gleason, UNOS Board member

Session 3: Finding Flow in the Transplant Process and in our TRIO groups and organization, Jacqui Scolaro, TRIO  Akron/Canton

Session 4: Caring for the Caregiver, Mike Lockovich

Session 5: Support Needs of the Transplanted Youth: A Chapter challenge, Mary Wu and Allie Weese, TRIO Youth Circle

Session 6: Facing the TRIO Chapter Challenge/Best Practices

Session 7: Volunteer Recruitment, Engagement, Empowerment and Retention, Colleen Sullivan, CORE Volunteer Coordinator

Session 8: Goal Setting for Personal and Organizational Success, Jim Gleason, Certified Life Coach

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you're falling into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
-Jim Rohn

Session 9: Existing Payer Environment for Kidney-Pancreas and Heart Transplant Patients, Ceylun Gul, Genetech

Session 10: Donor Awareness and Primary Care Physicians, Howard Degenholtz, PhD

Session 11: Enjoying Sexual Fulfillment Post Transplant, panel led by Chris Shay-Downer, ITNS transplant coordinator/nurse 




And to view the raw data results and comments from that TRIO "post transplant intimacy" survey <-- click here

Session 12: Gene Technology: BioMarkers in HealthCare, David Bull, XDx, VP Marketing

Session 13: TRIO Looking Back 25 Years and Moving Forward: New TRIO Strategic Plan overview, Jim Gleason, TRIO president

Session 14: Xenotransplantation: Hope for the Future, David Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS, UPMC

25th Anniversary Gala dinner - president's welcome, Jim Gleason, and Keynote Address by Walter Graham, UNOS CEO

25th Anniversary Gala dinner awards 

25th Anniversary Gala Parade of Chapters
The dinner slide set is available for viewing, including the "Parade of Chapters" by clicking on the cover slide image below:

We hope you found time to attend "virtually" these very informative and interesting Leadership Summit sessions via the YouTube technology offered above. 

To view the full 139 photo slide show album of Susan's event photography, click on:

 Photo gallery by Susan Pincus from the Leadership Summit events