TRIO Patient News

2/18.12 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
2/17/12 TV (video) Interview with Mary Wu, Rose Parade Rider/TRIO Youth Circle leader
2/14/12 Valentine's Day UAB Heart Transplant Love Story
  • 2/8/12 Johns Hopkins Study: Seniors denied access to life saving organs despite survival benefit
  • 2/8/12 Kelli Jaunsen's 8 hospital videos (basis for her story in the book "Not So Brave")
  • 1/27/12 Justin Bieber promotes organ donation (news video)
  • 1/26/12 Best man donates kidney to bride
  • 1/20/12 New stem cell method makes functioning liver cells
  • 1/21/12 Champion skier Sarah Burke passes away, donates organs (video)
  • 1/20/12 Man with two hearts survives double sized attack
  • 1/20/12 Do you really want to know what your doc is writing about you?
  • 1/15/12 ITNS 2012 Transplant Nurse Appreciation Day Essay Contest brochure
  • 1/15/12 Transplant Nurse Donates Own Kidney to Patient
  • 1/14/12 ITNS adds "CMV and Me" to transplant patient education library (<-- click to see all on-line)
  • 1/6/11 Jacksonville Patient Gets Heart Post Helicopter Accident ( see TRIO's "JT" in video interview)
  • 1/3/12 Both Parents Donate to Save Children's Lives
  • 1/2/12 Facebook Matching Organ Donors and Patients
  • 12/25/11 The Greatest Gift (Parade Magazine article/living kidney donation chain)
  • 12/24/11 Heart Recipient Gives Birth to Baby Boy (Kansas City Fox4 video)
  • 12/23/11 Articles featuring TRIO's Mary Wu's Rose parade float rider story: article 1  and article 2
  • 12/19/11 TIME article: Should You Be Allowed To Sell Your Bone Marrow?
  • 12/19/11 FDA Approves Berlin Heart device for children
  • 12/18/11 Jason and Kayla in Domino Heart Transplant Story (video)
  • 12/15/11 Mary Wu blogs her countdown to the Rose Bowl parade ride
  • 12/12/11 Local news features TRIO's Merle Zuel in holiday video
  • 12/6/11 The Story of Babies Fae, Eve and Gabriel (pictorial celebration of infant transplants)
  • Intensive diabetes care cuts kidney complications
  • Cellular therapy for critical limb ischemia show promise
  • Study finds one in four ICD patients not on optimal drug therapy
  • Heart to Heart (donor family and heart recipient meeting video)
  • Baby Born to Liver Recipient Couple (both parents are liver recipients)
  • Video Report on Double-hand and Face Transplant Recovery Progress
  • TRIO Youth leader, Mary Wu, receives two kidney transplants, campaigns for organ donation in New York
    Mary Wu at NY event
  • Kidney recipient bikes 50 states in 50 days for donor awareness
  • TRIO Youth Circle's Mary Wu featured on Kidney Talk Radio (audio link)
  • Texas Teen Receives Total Heart  Replacement as Bridge to Heart Transplant
  • Transplant Team to Compete in Round the World Yacht Racel
  • Divorce Could Clear Way for Wife's Liver Transplant
  • Teen Bond Overcomes Girl's Heart Transplant Fear
  • Rare Dual Living Donor Transplant to Single Recipient
  • Living Kidney Donor Found on Internet
  • Longest living transplant recipient dies - Edith Helm, 76 - first woman kidney recipient (1956)
    Helm Sisters
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  • A Mother-Daughter Donation: How Sharing a Kidney Saved our Family
  • UNOS kidney allocation concept document resources . . .
  • Kidney transplant plan would give preference to younger patients
  • Endorsement for UNOS Kidney Proposals
  • NY Times Op-ed: How Not to Assign Kidneys
  • White paper supporting UNOS Kidney Proposals
    (by Dr. Tom Peters, TRIO board member and transplant surgeon)
  • UNOS Kidney Allocation Concepts document  (PDF download)
  • NY Times article
  • ABC News report
  • New Rules for Kidney Donation?
  • Young People May Get Priority for Organs
  • Younger Patients Would Get Best Organs
    (note: see concept document and public comment feedback links under UNOS news below)
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  • Lung Recipient Developed Donor's Alergy
  • NY Times Op-ed: Giving Life After Death Row
  • Transplant Candidate Upset About Closing of Shands Jacksonville (TRIO members)
  • Sister's Prison Pardon Dependent Upon Donating Kidney to Her Sister (ethical issue?)
  • World's First Organ Donor Dies at 79
  •  TRIO member, Mary Wu (TRIO Youth Circle), continues her wonderful book, "Confessions of a Kidney Transplant Recipient" <-- click to read the latest chapters


  • Chris Klug 2010
    Amazing Chris Klug is still at it - read his promotion  of organ donation at the Olympics     <-- click to read story)

  • (New) TRIO member, Jackie Colleran (TRIO Ventura Co.), and her husband appear in video celebrating UCLA's 5,000 liver transplant achievement (<-- click to view)
  • The Power of Two story (<-- click to read) continues with Stenzel twins return from a hugely successful tour of Japan, spreading the word of success over CF and the power of transplantation.
  • Flying with a double transplant  (Jan 2010) - read bout TRIO member, David Grier (liver recipient in '97 and liver/kidney transplant in '07), and his flying goal achievements post transplant (click to download the inspiring JPG article).
  • AP 8/13/09: Tony Huesman, the world's longest surviving single heart transplant recipient (nearly 31 years) died at age 51 of cancer. Shortly after receiving his new heart, Huesman wrote these words: "It doesn't really matter how we die, when we die, or why we die."   "What really matters though, is how we live in the hearts and souls of those we touch along the way."
  • TRIO Nations Capital chapter founder and member, Claude Brady (heart transplant 6-89) is featured in this study report (click to download the 712kb PDF document -->): The First Patient Clinically Diagnosed with Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy

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