Welcome to TRIO
This is your voice of the transplant community.
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 News
(click on item to see details)
- TRIO Jacksonville TV news clip
coverage of Donate Life Day 2009
- TRIO Jacksonville hosts Donate Life Day
as reported in recent blog
- TRIO Japan quoted in 2/28/09 article (a PDF file download 76kb): A
Decade On, Organ Transplant Law Falls Short
- TRIO Manhattan Chapter - Sat, April 4th: "Remember and Rejoice" at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
- TRIO – Greater Cleveland has a Monster Celebration of Life to kick off Donate Life Month and will be a featured sponsor at the Lake Erie Monster’s Hockey Game on April 4th, a cooperative event with LifeBanc, the local OPO. See TV video story featuring our own Carol Fitzsimons (<-- click here)
Enter the annual contest to ride on the float, plus you and a guest receive an all expenses paid trip and five day stay in California: click on this link to see rules and application --> Rose Bowl Parade
TRIO partners with Transplant Buddies.com for enhanced web forum resource
TRIO President, JT Rhodes: In support of our members, TRIO announces a newly formed partnership with Transplantbuddies. Their message board is very active and contains great info and discussions of interest to all transplant recipients.
Our members can go to our bulletin board link from this home page (see navigation option above) where they will have the option to still use the existing TRIO BBS or link and post on transplantbuddies. TRIO encourages all members to use this opportunity to ask and respond to questions about transplantation. Special note: When registering TRIO members should use TRIO in their username (such as JTRTRIO) so that all members of transplant buddies will know that they are TRIO members.
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TRIO issues formal Position Statement on Incentives for Organ Donation
TRIO's Board of Directors has adopted a Position Statement that TRIO supports the concept that reward for organ donation must be studied in America.
- Read TRIO's official Position Statement <--click to download 76k PDF document)
- Read Press Release issued on November 19, 2008 <--click to download 73k PDF document)
- Click to go to Bulletin Board topic to post your comments
TRIO member featured in Study Report
Claude Brady (heart transplant 6-89), long time TRIO chapter founder and member, is featured in this study report (click to download the 712kb PDF document -->) titled: The First Patient Clinically Diagnosed with Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy
"The Gift That Heals" author offers story
Read Reg Green's beautiful article - just click on this link
--> Donor Family Treated Like Royalty.
For many who wanted to know more after hearing that his book, "The Gift that Heals," was such a hit at the ITNS/TRIO Symposium in St. Louis (see event story below), it tells the inspiring stories of families at every stage of the transplantation process. Update: The Gift That Heals has just become the first transplant book to be released in an audio version! Congratulations Reg!! ... for more information on the audio book please contact Nolan Estes at 888 519 5121 ext 5571 (nestes@authorhouse.com). For the soft or hard cover print versions call 888 280 7715.
TRIO 2008 Fall Conference with ITNS Huge Success
TRIO joined with the ITNS (International Transplant Nurses Society) Sept 25-27th, 2008 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis for an exciting convention filled with educational workshops and over 400+ transplant nurses from 17 countries around the world. Click on the article titles below for the full story or to download the handout...
- Article: TRIO Holds 2008 Symposium in
St. Louis, MO
- Article: TRIO Delivers Global Thank
You's to ITNS Nurses
- Article: TRIO Scholarship Winner's Impressions from the 2008 Conference
- Article: TRIO Thanks Symposium Sponsors
- Article: Thank you letters posted for nurses around the world to read (last updated 1/9/09 with several hundred eventually being posted)
- Article: Reactions to Thank You letters
- Download: Presenter, Vanessa
Underwood's Fitness Handout (190k PDF)
Transplantation in the News
World News
Headlines on Organ donation and transplant
Current articles (click on the title to read that news). . .
- Donor
Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body
- New
article in the FASEB Journal shows two-way exchange of molecules
between donor and recipient
- CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war
- AST Employee Leave & Organ Donation Program ( a great set of resources for taking action!)
"Your chance to be heard!"
UNOS policy proposals are continually being offered for public comment,now in a more user-friendly format. These proposals highlight proposed changes by the many committees that support UNOS in its work and policy making process. After a public comment period ends, the sponsoring committees review all feedback and make necessary modifications before passing their final recommendation on to the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors who in turn review and vote on these proposals at their quarterly meetings, leading to implementation of those that gain such final approval. You are encouraged to become part of this process by offering comment when invited by those announcements which are listed on the http://www.optn.org/policiesAndBylaws/publicComment/proposals.asp web site or Click to read proposal details and offer comment .
Thank you, Mike Sosna, Chair, TRIO Public Policy Committee
Current Call for Public Comment:
OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee is soliciting public input on concepts that may be used together in developing a future policy proposal. The deadline for responses is December 15, 2008. Responses will be incoroporated into additional public discussion, including a public forum tentatively scheduled for Janury 26, 2009. Click to read a synopsis and find out how you can take action.
Also there are four more proposals for your review and comment at
http://www.optn.org/policiesAndBylaws/publicComment/proposals.asp
TRIO Lifelines Newsletters on-line
Archived issues of the quarterly TRIO newsletter, Lifelines, are now available under the Communications link above. The January, April and August 2008 issues are posted. Come back in the weeks ahead as we add more past issues.
TRIO 2009 Scholarship Application is now avaulable.
Please click here to access the 2009 Scholarship Application form. The completed form must be completed and submitted in hard copy. The deadline is June 30, 2009.
Transplant Book Reviews Now On-line
There are so many excellent educational and inspiring books both about transplant and patient stories, what to read (of give as gifts)? In our Communications section there are now over eighty transplant related book titles, including a constantly growing list of newly released excellent reads, many of which are reviewed by a transplant patient as a guide to your own reading interests.
New reviews added include:
Also, contribute to the discussion and add your own comments about these and other books on the TRIO Bulletin Board.
TRIO's Past
News Items . . .
(click on titles below to
read their full story)
TRIO Jacksonville helped celebrate.....
Donate Life Rose Bowl Parade Float
January 2008 float to promote organ donation...
TRIO Carepages now available
Reach out to share ...
New Communications Section
Your opinion counts! Reach out to help others...
Transplant Movie Nights
TRIO Philadelphia co-sponsors transplant movies..
Transplant Resource Links
Over 700 links...
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