Those of us adjacent to kidney exchange know that transplant coordinators are heroes, and I'm reminded of that by some recent news stories.
This is one, from YNET, by Tamar Ashkenazi, who runs the Israeli transplant organization. Transplant coordinators are nurses, and these flew to the Ukraine-Polish border to help care for refugees in transit:
Meet Israeli organ transplant coordinators who rushed to aid Ukrainian refugees b yDr. Tamar Ashkenazi
"Among the earliest delegations Israel sent to Ukraine was one consisting of a group of organ transplant coordinators, who refused to remain neutral in the wake of the horrors of war.
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And here are some stories about Charles Bearden, one of the first transplant coordinators in the U.S.:
Life-saving matchmaker By KEN BECK For the Grundy County Herald
"Bearden, the longest-practicing organ transplant coordinator in the U.S., has observed a world of changes in organ transplants since he began his career in the 1970s."
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Transplant coordinator Charles Bearden has placed nearly 3,000 organs by KEN BECK news@wilsonpost.com
"Organ transplant coordinators typically work 24-hour shifts 15 days a month. If Bearden makes it to the end of 2022, he will have fulfilled that role 45 years."
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And here's an old post containing a poem by Marisol Robles (one of the first kidney recipients in a global kidney exchange) about Susan Rees, the transplant coordinator for the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation:
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