http://www.delicious.com/pennmedicinenews/transplant News stories about organ transplantation at Penn Medicine. http://www.delicious.com/url/0d4bfa1838e545df19f29d5c5cdad5b9#pennmedicinenews http://www.thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/08/transplant_house_embraces_location http://www.delicious.com/url/0d4bfa1838e545df19f29d5c5cdad5b9 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/0d4bfa1838e545df19f29d5c5cdad5b9 pennmedicinenews's links The Daily Pennsylvanian ran an update story of the recently opened Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House. According to the article, “While students drag their cardboard crates across campus, transplant patients are finding community and experiencing their own move” at the newly-opened house, located at 3940 Spruce Street. The Transplant House opened July 18 as a guest house for the families and loved ones of patients receiving organ transplantation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Six weeks after opening, the house is already operating at approximately 75 percent capacity, indicating a “major need for the Penn transplant community,” Quoted in the article are Director of Development Jessie McCulley; Operations Director Kirsten King; and Marketing and Outreach Manager for the House, Denise DuPont.  Jessie_McCulley denise_dupont transplant penn_transplant_institute clyde_f_barker_transplant_house august 2011 fy12 q1 of for-clips communications_placement Kirsten_King in-the-news september q2 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:49:51 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/3f2265afdd3cc90b4c597fd00834ec61#pennmedicinenews http://mobile.lehighvalleylive.com/advlehigh/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=JMbsZsZA&full=true#display http://www.delicious.com/url/3f2265afdd3cc90b4c597fd00834ec61 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/3f2265afdd3cc90b4c597fd00834ec61 pennmedicinenews's links After struggling with cystic fibrosis for 39 years, Penn patient Jim Fahr finally resolved that he wouldn’t live much longer without the benefit of a double lung transplant. In an interview with the Lehigh Valley Express-Times, Mr. Fahr says he decided to come to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to be treated. Surgeons performed the transplant May 20, 2010, and Fahr and his wife, Denise, celebrate its success the 20th of every month. Recovery was extremely difficult at first — Fahr said he could do little more than lie around for the first few months — but his quality of life has miraculously improved since the transplant. Communications placement august q1 fy12 transplant lung pulmonary thoracic_surgery Lehigh_Valley_Express-Times for-clips communications_placement of 2011 in-the-news Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:40:50 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/eb557856fc34c8b61ce3d78228b81746#pennmedicinenews http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Rekindled-Friendship-On-Facebook-Saves-Mans-Life-125250199.html http://www.delicious.com/url/eb557856fc34c8b61ce3d78228b81746 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/eb557856fc34c8b61ce3d78228b81746 pennmedicinenews's links NBC10 TV aired a touching story about how the social network Facebook helped saved the life of polycyctic kidney disease victim Rick Fosnot. Polycystic kidney disease shut down both of Rick’s kidneys. He had to have an emergency nephrectomy at HUP and was placed on a kidney transplant waiting that was six years long. At the same time – and unbeknownst to Rick – Janine Sansom was looking for Rick on Facebook. Janine knew Rick from 20 years ago as the “cool lifeguard” from the pool where she hung out as a child in the summer. When she learned of Rick’s dilemma, she quietly got tested to see if she was a kidney donor match for Rick. She was. “I just remember thinking, if my husband needed a kidney, I hoped someone else would come forward.” The living donor operation was successfully performed at HUP last week and both donor and recipient are doing well. penn_transplant_institute kidney_transplant_program july 2011 hup nbc10 fy12 q1 of for-clips transplant in-the-news Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:13:59 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/0ef9486f4813eacdd084651476630e91#pennmedicinenews http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/city-s-first-transplant-house-open-penn http://www.delicious.com/url/0ef9486f4813eacdd084651476630e91 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/0ef9486f4813eacdd084651476630e91 pennmedicinenews's links Today’s Daily Pennsylvanian ran an article featuring the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House - the $5-million building which will house transplant patient loved ones for only $60 a night. Quoted throughout the article are Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD, director of Penn’s Transplant Institute and chief of Transplant Surgery, and Kevin Mahoney, senior vice president and chief administrative officer for UPHS. Communications Placement Kevin_Mahoney transplant penn_transplant_institute clyde_f_barker_transplant_house daily_pennsylvanian june 2011 of for-clips communications_placement fy11 q4 abraham_shaked in-the-news Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/4781cde5f1f522ba69f1342251afe06d#pennmedicinenews http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/162901/20110615/clyde-f-barker-penn-transplant-house-rafael-vi-oly-architects.htm http://www.delicious.com/url/4781cde5f1f522ba69f1342251afe06d http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/4781cde5f1f522ba69f1342251afe06d pennmedicinenews's links In continuing coverage, International Business Times reports on features of the new Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House. Partly funded by public donations and built by Rafael Viñoly Architects and other construction teams working pro-bono, the location will provide low-cost housing for families of transplant patients.  transplant clyde_f_barker_transplant_house of for-clips june 2011 fy11 q4 international_business_times Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:40:04 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/25905bb697fb7f23176ec50a64cd6c93#pennmedicinenews http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2011/06/14/penn-health-providing-lodging-for.html http://www.delicious.com/url/25905bb697fb7f23176ec50a64cd6c93 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/25905bb697fb7f23176ec50a64cd6c93 pennmedicinenews's links Philadelphia Business Journal article Abraham_Shaked Transplant clyde_f_barker_transplant_house Penn_Transplant_Institute for_clips Communications_placement Kevin_Mahoney q4 fy11 OF philadelphia_business_journal clyde_f_barker Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:39:31 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/4cdfeee3c39d83a6f657915be2640b71#pennmedicinenews http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/162901/20110614/clyde-f-barker-penn-transplant-house-rafael-vi-oly-architects.htm http://www.delicious.com/url/4cdfeee3c39d83a6f657915be2640b71 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/4cdfeee3c39d83a6f657915be2640b71 pennmedicinenews's links International Business Times article Abraham_Shaked Transplant clyde_f_barker_transplant_house Penn_Transplant_Institute for_clips Communications_placement Kevin_Mahoney q4 fy11 OF international_business_times clyde_f_barker Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:40:22 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/044c54620b0c658cc92f193b261ca3d1#pennmedicinenews http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20110615_Penn_to_open_Philly_s_first_transplant_house_for_patients__family.html http://www.delicious.com/url/044c54620b0c658cc92f193b261ca3d1 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/044c54620b0c658cc92f193b261ca3d1 pennmedicinenews's links Yesterday evening, Penn Medicine and the Penn Transplant Institute Celebrated the opening of the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House - a “home away from home” designed to help ease the unique economic and emotional stresses of transplant families. The Barker Transplant House - located at 3920 Spruce Street on Penn’s campus offers comfortable, convenience accommodation in an ultra-modern, bright, positive and supportive community setting - all at a nominal cost - only $60 per diem. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6ABCTV, International Business Times, and the Philadelphia Business Journal all covered the opening. The market value of the house - $5.1 million dollars - was mostly covered by a variety of 1,300 personal and professional donors ranging from Penn’s Board of Women’s Visitors, the architect Rafael Vinoly, Penn Medicine’s Transplant House committee and LF Driscoll co, LLC.  clyde_f_barker Abraham_Shaked Transplant clyde_f_barker_transplant_house Penn_Transplant_Institute for_clips Communications_placement Kevin_Mahoney q4 fy11 OF philadelphia_inquirer in-the-news Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:34 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/1cf8459ab2a46ea2412ce613e46537e2#pennmedicinenews http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20110607_Penn_trial_offers_hope_in_insulin-cell_transplants.html http://www.delicious.com/url/1cf8459ab2a46ea2412ce613e46537e2 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/1cf8459ab2a46ea2412ce613e46537e2 pennmedicinenews's links The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights a Type 1 diabetes patient who underwent an islet cell transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The insulin-producing cells from a pancreas donor were surgically implanted in his liver. Within about two months, Ali Naji, MD, PhD, professor of Surgery, director of the JDRF-Penn Islet Transplantation Program, and associate director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism and endocrinologist Michael Rickels, MD, MS, assistant professor of Medicine in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, hoped the cells would be producing a regular flow of insulin in this patient. "It's a very attractive procedure because it doesn't involve big-time surgery," said Naji, principal investigator of the Penn study. Preliminary results from Penn are promising, Rickels said. Nine patients have received the transplants, and in each case they are generating insulin with no serious side effects. Communications placement 2011 fy11 q4 philadelphia_inquirer endocrinology idom Michael_Rickels ali_naji km for-clips communications_placement transplant clyde_f._barker june in-the-news Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:27:08 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/0471e5ffe36e204fa61c93d460703b2d#pennmedicinenews http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20110609_Citing_low_patient_volume__Temple_inactivates_heart-transplant_program.html http://www.delicious.com/url/0471e5ffe36e204fa61c93d460703b2d http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/0471e5ffe36e204fa61c93d460703b2d pennmedicinenews's links Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer announced that Temple University Hospital has said it will voluntarily inactivate its heart-transplant program on July 8 because of low patient volume. HUP is mentioned in the article for performing 61 heart transplants last year, the highest in the region. penn_transplant_institute fy11 2011 june q4 for-clips of transplant Wed, 25 May 2011 16:19:13 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/8b23a87f11ce2a7e5263697590894e45#pennmedicinenews http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/05/24/brotherly-love-transplant-patient-helps-the-next-ones/ http://www.delicious.com/url/8b23a87f11ce2a7e5263697590894e45 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/8b23a87f11ce2a7e5263697590894e45 pennmedicinenews's links Penn’s new Clyde F. Barker Transplant House, to officially open June 14th, aired yesterday and this morning on CBS3’s News. The new clips featured double HUP lung transplant patient Scott Jamison as a “walking miracle” who was born with cystic fibrosis and told five times in his life he would be dead in 24 hours. Not only is Mr. Jamison alive and well, he is a restaurant owner who has donated personally to the development of Penn’s Transplant House, sat on its planning committee and bought cooking supplies for the house. For ten years, he has helped get the House built, a place where patients and families can stay while waiting for lifesaving transplants. “ So many people will get a second chance at life,” said Jemison. Also featured in the story is Denise DuPont, manager of Transplant Outreach and Communications for the Penn Transplant Institute. “The Transplant House… it would never have come true if it wasn’t for people like Scott.”  transplant penn_transplant_institute clyde_f_barker_transplant_house may 2011 cbs3 fy11 q4 of for-clips communications_placement denuse_dupont in-the-news Thu, 19 May 2011 20:21:18 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/3fa65e16f3990d6faa75074b4eb73ba8#pennmedicinenews http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x1058161179/Daughter-donates-liver-to-dad?photo=0 http://www.delicious.com/url/3fa65e16f3990d6faa75074b4eb73ba8 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/3fa65e16f3990d6faa75074b4eb73ba8 pennmedicinenews's links The Wayne Independent ran a story about how Penn liver transplant patient Kevin Hanley” only daughter Brigette donated part of her liver to save his life. After 20 years of battling Hepatitis C1-A liver disease, Mr. Hanley’s health took a terrible turn for the worse in October of 2010. An MRI showed two cancerous tumors on his liver which were inoperable at the time because they were too large. After two drastic chemoembolisation treatments – which are 200 times stronger than normal chemotherapy – Mr. Hanley was cleared for a living liver donor transplant operation at HUP in February. Today, both father and daughter are doing well. Photographed in the article is Mr. Hanley’s surgeon and Penn Transplant Institute Director, Abraham Shaken, MD, PhD. transplant penn_transplant_institute may 2011 wayne_independent of for-clips fy11 q4 abraham_shaked Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:12:29 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/a103c3d648f620c0ccf9add4db5792a7#pennmedicinenews http://thedp.com/article/transplant-house-open-june http://www.delicious.com/url/a103c3d648f620c0ccf9add4db5792a7 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/a103c3d648f620c0ccf9add4db5792a7 pennmedicinenews's links Jessie McCulley, director of Development, was interviewed for The Daily Pennsylvanian about the Clyde F. Barker Transplant House at 3940 Spruce St. The House was initially slated to open this past March, “but due to various factors including weather, funds and construction timelines, the date has been postponed to this summer.” The Transplant House is to be “home away from home" designed to help ease the unique economic and emotional stresses of transplant families. Modeled after the Ronald McDonald Houses and named for the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House will offer comfortable, convenient accommodations in a supportive community setting - all at a nominal cost. development transplant clyde_f_barker_transplant_house penn_transplant_institute april 2011 daily_pennsylvanian in-the-news jessie_mcculley communications_placement Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:13:41 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/a30ca559adceae87098d2b7f1aee0e6c#pennmedicinenews http://health.msn.com/health-topics/infectious-diseases/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100271021 http://www.delicious.com/url/a30ca559adceae87098d2b7f1aee0e6c http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/a30ca559adceae87098d2b7f1aee0e6c pennmedicinenews's links A HealthDay article also posted to MSN Health about two hepatitis C studies funded by Merck pharmaceuticals which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the studies – one done at Penn and the other at St. Louis University Sciences Center, adding the new drug boceprevir to the current two-drug treatment for hepatitis C appears significantly more effective than the standard therapy. "Boceprevir, a protease inhibitor, along with peginterferon and ribavirin increases response rates in previously untreated patients," said K. Rajender Reddy, MD, professor of Medicine, medical director of Hepatology and Transplantation Hepatology at Penn, and co-researcher of one of the studies. The drugs currently used to treat the chronic liver disease of hepatitis C are antivirals peginterferon and ribavirin. Combining them with the not-yet approved drug boceprevir increased the response rate, researchers say. msn.com healthday msn_health research infectious_disease liver-transplant transplant K_Rajender_Reddy in-the-news 2011 April FY11 Q4 aprilplus Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:44:28 +0000 http://www.delicious.com/url/48782a24f2869fad7baece975cd276cc#pennmedicinenews http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/118823359.html http://www.delicious.com/url/48782a24f2869fad7baece975cd276cc http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/48782a24f2869fad7baece975cd276cc pennmedicinenews's links According to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, “through the 1990s and into the 2000s, as public awareness about the need for organ transplants grew, the number of people who became donors - living and deceased - increased by several hundred each year.” However, in the last four years, that number has leveled off and are down slightly nationwide. The drop was even bigger, locally. Patrick Kim, MD, medical director of the Trauma Program at HUP and Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Penn Center for Bioethics, are both quoted throughout the article commenting on possible reasons organ donations may be down both locally and nationally. While it may be too early to explain the exact cause, the poor economy and advances are probably two key causes in the drop in donations. philadelphia_inquirer transplant Patrick_Kim trauma arthur_caplan bioethics communications_placement patient_care in-the-news 2011 March FY11 Q3