Meet Our Guests
September 7, 2008

Shelley Gilroy, MD

Topic: LYME DISEASE

David Duggan, MD

Topic: MEDICARE & MEDICAID

ABOUT the HOST—

April 22nd's Show: Pediatric nursing director Leanna Severance, RN, and Robert Kochik, executive director of the Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network, discuss the critical need for and the even more critical shortage of donated organs, as well as the National campaign to encourage organ donation. Also covered will be myths associated with organ donation.

For more information on the Anatomical Gift Program at SUNY Upstate Medical University: www.upstate.edu/cdb/donor/
For more information on the Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network (FLDRN): www.donorrecovery.org/about/

Health Information Center Resources on This Week's Show

Books:

• “Transplantation Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Organ And Tissue Transplantation, edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon, published by Omnigraphics, 2002.
• “Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life”, by Robert Finn, published by O’Reilly, 2000.
• “100 Questions & Answers About Liver Transplantation: A Lahey Clinic Guide”, by Fredrick D. Gordon, published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007.

Books available through bookstores and libraries, including the Health Information Center and Amazon.com.

Websites:

• United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
• What Every Patient Needs to Know
• Organ Transplants: What Every Kid Needs to Know
• Transplant Living – Your Prescription for Transplant Information
• OrganDonor.Gov - from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), Division of Transplantation.
• Transplant Awareness Group of  Central New York (TAG)

Medical News:

• “1 Donor Cornea May Treat 3 Patients”, from the Archives of Ophthalmology, April 2007, Summarized in Medical News Today.
• “Important Step On Path To Reducing Transplant Rejection Rates”, from The Journal of Clinical Investigation, March 2007.
• “New Technology Lengthens Lives of Patients Waiting For Donor Human Hearts”.

Tutorial: How to Find Reliable Health Information on the Internet

HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upstate Medical University

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