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Gift of Hope hosted its fourth annual hospital collaborative The “X” Factor:
Where Donation and Transplantation Intersect on October 22, 2009.

Click on the names below to view thier presentations from this event.

Becky Ames
Learning From Your Peers – Peer Assists

David Bosch
Donor Registries and its Impact on Donation

Roxane Cauwels
The State of Donation, Regional Level

Tom Cycyota
Tissue – Maximizing the Gift

Dr. Richard Fantus
Patient Care Conferences Impacting Donation

Gary Hanson
Skin Recipient
The Gift of Tissue Donation

Michael Harmon
The State of Donation, Local Level

Dr. Robert Higgins
Overview of UNOS

Debra Inman
Expanding Policies to Make Donation Possible

Joel Karman
Hospitals Tributes to Donation

Brett Kesselring
Hospitals Tributes to Donation

 Dr. Robert Love
The State of Donation, National Level

Jack Lynch
Community Outreach and Education –
African-American Community

Shaun Martin, Recipient Father
The Gift of Tissue Donation

Raiza Mendoza
Community Outreach and Education –
Hispanic Community

Dottie Muskovin
Learning From Your Peers – Peer Assists

Joslyn Osten
Community Outreach and Education

Anna Scaccia
Patient Care Conferences Impacting Donation

Carol Schuster
Hospitals Tributes to Donation

Penny Viater
De-Mystifying the Transplant Process

Alison Walsh
Learning From Your Peers – Peer Assists

Dr. Ross Wilkins
Utilization of Donated Tissue

We are committed to providing quality professional education for the hospital professionals with whom we work to coordinate life-giving donation.

In addition to providing ongoing education through its Hospital Development staff, Gift of Hope offers an online continuing education program for nurses. Gift of Hope is an approved provider of continuing education in nursing by the Illinois Nurses Association, Continuing Education Approver Unit. The unit is an accredited approver on continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

CE program for nurses

This online program will be available in the future.

To request an in-service or CE program

Contact our Office of Professional and Continuing Education or call us at 630/758-2838.