TRIO

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Support TRIO:

click here to Download a Contribution Form (PDF 60k) and mail in your contribution..

Locate a TRIO Chapter near you by clicking on this title, then join that TRIO Chapter by Downloading a Membership Form (PDF 76k) or if there is no local chapter in your area...

click here to Join TRIO as a member-at-large

Volunteer with your local chapter or on a National Committee

Become an organ donor

Contribute through the Combined Federal Campaign and the United Way

Donate your frequent flyer miles! United Airlines frequent flyer miles are urgently needed to provide FREE transplant-related air travel to donors and recipients click here for Travel Program details

What Can TRIO do for YOU?

Click this title to find out how TRIO serves the community.

TRIO Liaisons

The national TRIO Board of Directors has established liaison roles for ongoing contact and communication wth major transplant organizations. Contact them [Visit Liaisons] if you can help or need their services in communicating with those organizations.

Communication Guides

Guidelines for both Recipient/Donor Communications as well as a new Sensitive Terminology for Organ Donation guide are available under Communications. Please review these guidelines for your use in your presentations and discussions.

TRIO needs YOU!

The national TRIO Board of Directors is composed of TRIO members who take the cause to a new level of dedication and active participation, providing leadership at the national level (...while maintaining active roles in their local TRIO Chapters). If you have the skills and interest, use the "Contact" link on bottom of this page to ask for more information.

PS: There are also many opportunities to participate on national committees, so please consider that too when you contact us. For a current list of TRIO committees, their aims and committee member names, download the Committee 2011 list PDF document here.

TRIO Chapter Activity Reports

On the Active Chapter list click on each Activity Report link for ideas and best practices.

Lifelines Newsletters on-line

Archived issues of the quarterly TRIO newsletter, Lifelines, are now available under the Communications link above.

Transplant Book Reviews on-line
(updated with new books/reviews 11/22/2011)
Books Reviewed

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 one hundred 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. To view the most recently added book reviews by book cover, click here --> Most Recent . Also, contribute to the discussion and add your own comments about these and other books on the TRIO Bulletin Board

TRIO's Past Items . . .
(click on titles below to read their full story)

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 verified regularly...
TRIO Bulletin Board
  Log in and post your questions, ideas and topics. Communicate with other transplant recipients, donors and families. Check out our new topics and add your own suggestions. Help build this community with your own postings to help others. Add your own questions and thoughts.

Welcome to TRIO . . .

<< Celebrating 25 years of service >>

Click on the logo above to see current Leadership Summit details
Registration now OPEN - use registration form here and on details page linked above

. . . 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.

News of TRIO and Transplant

(click on category titles below to jump to that news page):

As part of DLA's 2012 campaign to register 20M,
Flash Mobs hit the streets across the country to promote organ donation:
(click on event to view video)

3/24/12 - Special News of TRIO interest:
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Dick Teresi regarding the validity of brain death declaration and its impact on the organ donation process is attracting a lot of national attention.
For background and a full set of related resources (now including the 3/27/12 NY Times commentary on this book), click to go to Background Resources for Teresi article.shtml

New web site feature: Member stories
With the Spring issue, we are offering expanded articles linked from shorter Lifeline articles to fuller versions here. We begin with two member stories and hope to expand to many more over the months and years to come. Click on each title to go to that article:

News from TRIO National (updated 5/15/12)

TRIO past board member, heart recipient (1990) and world renowned car driver/designer dies at 89: Carroll Shelby
May Member e-News posted
2012 Leadership Summit replacing 25th Anniversary Conference
TRIO chapter presidents list updated
TRIO 2012 scholarship application now available
TRIO Offers Condolences to Victims of Fla Heart Recovery Team Helicopter Crash
TRIO annual board meeting held in Philadelphia Nov 19th - new officers elected
Update from TRIO Strategic Planning committee - invitation for input

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News from TRIO Chapters (updated 5/2/12)

MerleJam featured in Kansas news
TRIO Kansas City's MerleJam to raise funds
Akron/Canton chapter monthly newsletter pays tribute to special members
Philadelphia chapter publishes children's book explaining organ transplant (free for downloading)
Chapter Activity Reports posted
Ventura County West Valley chapter announces meeting changes
Nation's Capital Area chapter elects co-presidents
2011 Long Island Donor Recognition Event Makes the news
Long time Manhattan TRIO chapter leader remembered
Story book for children of a family facing transplant offered free on-line

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Rx & Insurance News (updated 4/26/12)

3 in Five Americans Misuse Their Rx Drugs
Generic Drugs Resistant to Damage Suits
Engineering Organs to Solve Organ Donor Shortage
Transplant without drugs
New drug target found for lung cancer
Stopping Prednisone Soon After Transplant Found to be Safe
Why heart doctors are leaving practices and joining hospitals
New powerful pain killer has abuse experts worried
Daily Aspirin Is Not for Everyone, Study Suggests
Medicare updates from TRIO Public Policy committee
Counterfeit Rx pills - how to spot
Kidney transplant patients freed from immuno drugs

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Patient News of TRIO Interest (updated 5/4/12)

Grow Your Own Organs (ABC News)
Lung Transplant Recipient Thrives Nearly 20 Years Later
Philadelphia DASH: CBS video interview with local heart recipient, LaVerne Clark
Dick Cheney Back Home after Heart Transplant 10 days ago
Parents donate lung parts to save daughter with cystic fibrosis in rare operation
More expert discussion on Cheney's age and heart transplant
Denise Crosby: Remarkable heart defines 96-year-old kidney transplant pioneer
Good Morning America video: Was Cheney too old for a transplant?
Dick Cheney receives heart transplant
Updated "Life - Pass It On" speaker slides set with notes available
Web resource: "Explore Transplant: Make An Informed Decision"

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UNOS News (updated 5/6/12)
Latest end of month snapshot of UNOS waiting list registrations (<-- click here for PDF download)
Note: for real-time waiting list candidate and registration data or answers to other transplant related data questions, go to UNOS.ORG

LVADs May Confer Unfair Transplant Advantage
Kids' Kidney Transplant Rules May have shrunk 'Race Gap'
Experts Recommend Single Registry to Oversee (chain) Transplant Donations
UNOS launches new Transplant Living web site
TRIO's Jim Gleason elected to three year term on UNOS board
Donor Chains and the Legality of Compensating Kidney Donors
Everything you wanted to know about OPTN paired kidney donation program
UNOS Facts (the numbers)
Updated "What Every Patient Needs to Know" resource for transplant candidates released
Proposal to Regulate Face/Hand Transplants
Presumed consent not the answer...
UNOS Transplant calculators for candidates and recipients (<-- click to link to those UNOS resources)

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Articles of General Interest (updated 5/2/12)

ABC News reporting major increase in organ donor registrations after new Facebook feature is launched
Kidney recycled through living donation from previous failing transplant
NY State Unveils New Online Service to Increase Organ Donations
Key Mechanism Involved in Type 2 Diabetes Identified
How Stuff Works: Organ transplant (article describing the whole process in simple terms)
Resources for understanding the WSJ Teresi article noted earlier
What You Lose When You Sign That Organ Donor Card (controversial WSJ article)
DLA Names 12 Women of 2012 Inspire Americans to be Organ & Tissue Donors
U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
1000's of Seniors Lack Access to Lifesaving Organs, Despite Survival Benefit
Donate Life America (DLA) Rose parade float 2012 - click to see photos and video below