On
September 12, 2006, the New York Center
for Liver Transplantation was awarded a three-year
research grant by the Health Resources and Services
Administration’s Division of Transplantation
(HRSA/DoT) entitled “Increasing Liver Donation
through Peer-Developed Education.” The
grant project looks to increase the information available to potential living liver donors in five of the transplant centers
in New York State
by using peer-developed educational materials shared
by living liver donors.
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The
first of its kind, “Increasing Liver Donation
through Peer-Developed Education,” will
enable pre-transplant patients and their loved ones to have access to resources and educational
materials about the impacts of the living liver donation
process from the perspectives of past living liver donors.
The
proposed project is an outgrowth of a Department of
Health mandated program in New York State;
where quality-of-life of living liver donors is tracked
post donation through a self-administered Living Liver
Donor Post-Donation Survey. This project will entail
using general information from the survey to develop
and implement the educational intervention with pre-transplant
patients and living liver donors. |
The
project has been implemented at five liver
programs in New York:
- Mount
Sinai Medical Center
- New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia
- New
York University Hospitals Center
- University of Rochester-Strong Memorial
Hospital
- Westchester Medical Center
For more information,
please contact Samantha D'Angelo, Project Manager, at (518) 533-7877 ext.
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