ADVISORY/Bone Marrow Donor and Recipient to Meet for First Time.News Editors and Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY ... for Thursday (May 31) STANFORD, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--May 30, 2001 Transplant patients rarely have the opportunity to thank the individuals who changed their lives by making their transplantation possible. This week, Sunnyvale resident Rick Wang will get that chance: he will return to Stanford University Medical Center Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford Hospital & Clinics) is one of four hospitals affiliated with Stanford University and Stanford University School of Medicine, along with the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, and Santa on Thursday to meet the man whose donated bone marrow helped Wang overcome a deadly disease. The donor is Jimmy Kang, a 41-year-old Asian American A·sian A·mer·i·can also A·sian-A·mer·i·can n. A U.S. citizen or resident of Asian descent. See Usage Note at Amerasian. A from Sunnyvale, who learned in 1999 about the critical need for minority bone marrow donors. Kang promptly put his name on the Asian American Donor Program Registry, which matches potential donors and recipients. Two and a half years later, the registry called Kang and told him he was a match for a 25-year-old with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma non-Hodg·kin's lymphoma n. Any of various malignant lymphomas characterized by the absence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma . The donor and recipient didn't meet prior to the surgery and had no idea they lived only miles away from each other. Tammy Taylor, M.D., a staff physician in Stanford's bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. division, successfully performed Wang's transplant surgery on May 9, 2000. Now, one year later, Taylor and staff members of the Oakland-based Asian American Donor Program will introduce Wang and Kang to each other at 11 a.m. Thursday. Under guidelines established by the National Marrow Donor Program The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the federally funded registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors in the United States. These potential donors, numbering more than 6. , bone morrow donors and recipients must wait at least one year before meeting; many donors and recipients never meet at all. Taylor will be on hand at the meeting along with the president of the donor program. The meeting will take place at the courtyard of Lane Medical Library at Stanford's School of Medicine. (Note: The meeting of the donor and the recipient will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 31, in the courtyard near Lane Medical Library at Stanford University's School of Medicine. For directions and parking information, either ask the parking valet in front of Stanford Hospital Stanford Hospital is located at 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California, 94305.[1] It is world-renowned for its work in cardiovascular medicine and surgery, organ transplantation, neurology, neurosurgery, and cancer diagnosis and treatment. or contact Michelle Brandt at 650/723-0272. Dim sum dim sum n. A traditional Chinese cuisine in which small portions of a variety of foods, including an assortment of steamed or fried dumplings, are served in succession. and refreshments will be served following the meeting.) |
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