A free public forum on the latest in organ transplantation

 

When

November 30, 2011, 6:00-8:30 p.m.

Where

Paetzold Auditorium at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Registration

Registration is required. Click here: http://www.trfbc.org/publicforum The forum will be webcast live at http://tinyurl.com/TRFpublicforum

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Agenda

6:00 p.m. Reception

6:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction – Pamela Scott, Executive Director, TRF.

Screening of the short video “Collateral Advantage: Innovations made in pursuit of transplantation have benefited other areas of medicine“

6:50 p.m. A Patient’s Perspective – Amanda Poch, a liver transplant recipient

7:00 p.m. Bruce McManus, MD, PhD, UBC, Providence Health Care Research Institute – Customized care from a simple blood test

Alice Mui, PhD, UBC, VCH Research Institute – Replacing organ function with mini machines

Christopher Ong, PhD, UBC, VCH Research Institute – Creating new tissue and organs from stem cells

 

8:00 p.m. Q&A and DOOR PRIZE – Win a pair of Vancouver Canucks tickets!