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This group is for all Members of US Transplant Games Team Southern California. Join up to discuss everything related to the games, find teammates, set up practice meets, etc.!
This is for everyon from the sun shine state
If you are from Oklahoma and have a solid organ transplant and want to have alot of fun - join Team Oklahoma and let's go to Madison together!
The campaign for World Kidney Day 2010 has started. Events will take place all over the world on Thursday 11 March 2010.
From now on, we need your mobilization, ideas, pictures, etc. to try and make next year's events the most successful ever!
June 1, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Please join us for the NKF's "People Like Us" Coffee House Conversations, a series of free monthly telephone conference calls on various topics. The next two calls are:
"Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation"
Monday, June 1
7:00 PM - 8:30 P...
Please join us for the NKF's "People Like Us" Coffee House Conversations, a series of free monthly telephone conference calls on various topics. The next two calls are:
"Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation"
Monday, June 1
7:00 PM - 8:30 P...
June 1, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Please join us for the NKF's "People Like Us" Coffee House Conversations, a series of free monthly telephone conference calls on various topics. The next two calls are:
"Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation"
Monday, June 1
7:00 PM - 8:30 P...
We are working through the details as to the appropriate process for each sport and will share the details later. Tryouts will be for volleyball, baton hand off practice for track and we will do the appropriate process for swimming. No worries! :O...
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- National Kidney Foundation U.S. TRANSPLANT GAMES
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), along with its many Divisions/Affiliates, presents the NKF U.S. Transplant Games celebration of life that includes transplant recipients, their friends and families, living donors, donor families, transplant professionals and spectators from the host community.
The Games is the only national athletic competition for recipients of all life-saving organ transplants, as well as the largest gathering of transplant recipients and donor families in the world. The Games serve to promote the health and fitness of its participants while showcasing the success of transplantation, highlighting the tremendous need for more organ and tissue donors, and honoring the thousands of selfless acts of love from donors and their families all over the world.
The Games is a four-day athletic competition for recipients of organ transplants. Competition in the Games is open to anyone whose most recent lifesaving solid organ transplant — heart, liver, kidney, lung, intestine, pancreas and/or heterologous bone marrow — has been functioning for at least six months.
As much as the Games is an athletic event that calls attention to the success of organ and tissue transplantation, it is also a celebration of life among recipients, their families and friends as well as an opportunity to honor our nation’s donors.
The purposes of the NKF U.S. Transplant Games are:
**To demonstrate to the public the collective and individual successes of the life-restoring therapy of organ transplantation.
**To utilize the media to promote the success of organ donation and transplantation.
**To call attention to the need for organ donation through events and support activity before, during, and after the event.
**To contribute to the successful rehabilitation of the nation’s transplant patient community.
**To involve the entire transplant community including physicians, allied professionals, patients, donor families, living donors and related organizations in a collaborative effort for the benefit of organ donation.
**To provide an opportunity for these goals to be achieved locally by NKF Affiliates and other participating organizations.
For more information visit www.transplantgames.org or call (800) 622-9010.
- Transplant surgeons, doctors, coordinators and facilitators: What hospital(s), or organizations do you practice in, work for, or work with and where?
- Our Mission
The National Kidney Foundation, a major voluntary nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney disease and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation.
Through its more than 50 local offices nationwide, the NKF provides vital patient and community services, conducts extensive public and professional education, advocates for patients through legislative action and supports kidney research to identify new treatments.
The NKF relies on individual and corporate donations, business partnerships, foundation and government grants and revenue from special events. More than 81 cents of each dollar donated to NKF goes directly to support its programs and services.
To find out more about NKF’s major initiatives, including patient services, public and professional education, patient advocacy and research visit: http://www.kidney.org/about/glance.cfm
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NKF's "People Like Us" Coffee House Conversations - Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation
Please join us for the NKF's "People Like Us" Coffee House Conversations, a series of free monthly telephone conference calls on various topics. The next two calls are:
"Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation"
Monday, June 1
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern Time
(4:00 PM Pacific Time/ 6:00 PM Central Time)
To join the calls, dial toll-free: 888-603-9220
Pass code: KIDNEY
Registration is required. Please complete the online registration at http://www.kidney.org/members/source/events/event.cfm?ev… Continue
"Nutrition and Fitness After Transplantation"
Monday, June 1
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern Time
(4:00 PM Pacific Time/ 6:00 PM Central Time)
To join the calls, dial toll-free: 888-603-9220
Pass code: KIDNEY
Registration is required. Please complete the online registration at http://www.kidney.org/members/source/events/event.cfm?ev… Continue
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Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 11:57am on March 20, 2009,
Judi Pulaski said… - I am so excited that the Transplant Games in 2010 will be held in Madison, Wi. I go there to my TX doctor and live 2 hours north from there. I plan to be involved somehow! Not sure how yet, but will work something out. Last year I designed the T-shirt for the Wisconsin Team. Judi
- At 9:47am on March 20, 2009,
Mike B. said… - Hi, and thanks for all you do for everyone! Enjoyed your page also.
- At 8:44am on March 19, 2009,
TransplantCafe.com said… - cool page!
- At 8:50pm on March 18, 2009,
Terri Lynne said… - I love the games, I've been to 5 :o)
- At 1:51pm on March 18, 2009,
TransplantCafe.com said…
- Thanks for the friend's request. I would have sent you one, but my limit is maxed out with too many outstanding. I sent this out right before you joined, so not sure if you had a chance to read the latest issue of Transplant Cafe eXpresso, the TC newsletter. Click here for the latest and all other issues.
Thanks,
Nelson
- At 3:18pm on March 17, 2009,
TransplantCafe.com said…
- Welcome NKF! Here's a link to the new member's guide. Let me know if you need any help with anything on here.. By the way, if you make your profile picture 183x183px, it should fit in the frame perfectly.
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