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LifeLink® Representatives To Participate In 2018 International Congress Of The Transplantation Society
Several LifeLink staff members, including Ruth Duncan Bell, M.P.A., and Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for LifeLink Founda- tion, Inc., were selected to present oral presentations at the upcoming 27th Interna- tional Congress of The Trans- plantation Society from June 30 to July 5, 2018, at IFEMA – Feria de Madrid in Madrid, Spain.
The program for this world-class event will cover a diverse array of topics, ranging from cutting-edge science to the latest controversies in ethics and public policy. Issues relevant to developing trans- plant programs, organ dona- tion, and procurement will be highlighted. The Congress typically has 4,000 partici- pants representing 85 coun- tries.
Mrs. Bell will present “Success of a Multicultural Do- nation Education Program to increase African American
Organ Donation in a Donor Service Area with a High African American Population.” She will highlight best prac- tices which led to successful organ donation education and registration programs targeted at the African American com- munity throughout the Life- Link of Georgia service area.
Mrs. Bell is an active member of Athena Society, Tampa Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Tampa Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, USF Black Leadership Network and USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy, and several pro- fessional organizations related to organ and tissue donation and transplantation.
“I am honored to attend and share the success of our Multicultural Donation Edu- cation Program, and thrilled that other LifeLink colleagues will also discuss their achieve- ments and contributions to- ward saving more lives
MRS. RUTH DUNCAN BELL
through organ donation and transplantation with an inter- national audience,” stated Mrs. Bell.
Other LifeLink presenters and their topics include:
Marty Sellers, M.D., As- sociate Medical Director, Life- Link of Georgia, “Outcomes from Livers Transplanted from Deceased Donors with End-Stage Renal Disease”
Charles Wright, M.D., Medical Director, LifeLink of Florida, “Low Utilization Rate of Hearts Designated as PHS Increased Risk and Presumed Infected”
Liz Lehr, B.S.N., M.H.A., Senior Vice President/Execu- tive Director, LifeLink of Florida, “A Systems Based Ap- proach to Increasing Organs Transplanted: One Organ Procurement Organization’s Experience”, and
Paula Y. Lawrence,
M.P.H., Director, Strategic & Operational Initiatives, Life- Link Foundation, Inc. “The Great Recession and the Im- portance of Donation after Cir- culatory Determination of Death” (Poster Presentation).
LifeLink Foundation, Inc. is led by Jean Davis, Presi- dent and CEO.
About LifeLink:
LifeLink Foundation is a non-profit community service organization dedicated to the
recovery of life-saving and life- enhancing organs and tissue for transplantation therapy. Headquartered in Tampa, FL, the Foundation has five divi- sions including three organ procurement organizations; LifeLink® of Florida (serves 15 counties in west central Florida), LifeLink® of Georgia (serves the state and two coun- ties in South Carolina) and LifeLink® of Puerto Rico (serves Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands); Life- Link® Transplantation Im- munology Laboratory (the “matchmaker” between donor organs and suitable transplant recipients); and LifeLink® Tissue Bank (recovers donated tissue for transplantation). In addition, the LifeLink Legacy Fund® develops philan- thropic resources to support the organ recovery and trans- plantation activities of Life- Link. For more information visit www.LifeLinkFounda- tion.org.
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