Team Iowa to Meet November 18

Get out your calendar and block off 1:00 to 4:00 pm Sunday November 18 for the next Team Iowa meeting. The location is still to be determined. Light refreshments - cookies, brownies, lemonade - will be served. You'll find more information on this Website once the location is finalized.

At the meeting, we'll discuss updated information about the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games. Your opinion on several issues matters - if you want to have a vote, please plan to be at the meeting.

On the Agenda:

• We'll watch a DVD of Pittsburgh highlights.
  
• Alesha Luxon from Astellas Pharmaceutical Company will be there to talk about trends in transplantation.
  
• New information about the 2008 Games. For example:
  
  
  • Lodging at the games
    
  • Team logo/uniforms
    
  • Transportation to the games
    
  • Committee sign up opportunities
    
  • Team sports
    
  • The medical waiver, which is required of all athletes participating in the games.
    
  • Scholarships

If you know of somebody who might want to attend, please invite them to come to the meeting. To participate as an athlete a person needs to have received their most recently transplanted organ at least 9 months before the Games (which means they need to have received it already in order to participate this coming July); The organ also needs to be working - if it is a kidney, the person can't be on dialysis. If you know of any living donors, please invite them to come. Also, if you are aware of any families that have donated a loved one's organs, please invite them as well.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please direct them to Diane Hagarty.