The Gift of Life 2: Surviving the Waiting List And Liver Transplantation - Tapa blanda

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Parichehr Yomtoob is a mother of three, grandmother of four, teacher, wife, volunteer, and an activist and educator for organ donation and transplantation. Her first book, The Gift of Life, was about her son David's Wilson's Disease and successful liver transplant. She coauthored the book with freelance writer Ted Schwarz. The book was published in 1986 in the U.S. and Japan and received rave reviews. Parichehr and her husband Joe reside in a suburb of Chicago.Laura Yomtoob was born in 1965 and educated at the University of Michigan. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two sons, where she designs, makes, and sells lampwork glass beads. This is her first book.Debbie Weppler is the Clinical Specialist/Senior Transplant Coordinator for the Liver and GI Transplant Team at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Medical Center. As a Senior Transplant Coordinator, she is responsible for coordinating over 200 liver transplants and 30 intestinal transplants annually. She also follows approximately 600 pretransplant and 2,200 posttransplant patients, supervises seven posttransplant coordinators, five preoperative coordinators, three pediatric coordinators, and multiple ancillary personnel. In addition, she oversees multiple clinical research projects. She has been the author and coauthor of many medical articles and books. Among them: Weppler, Debbie and J.M. Civetta "Preventive care: Poorly appreciated and undervalued," Critical Care, J.M. Civetta, R.W. Taylor, and R.R. Kirby, editors. J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1987.Weppler, Debbie and J.M. Civetta "Preventive care: Poorly appreciated and undervalued," Critical Care, 2nd edition, J.M. Civetta, R.W. Taylor, and R.R. Kirby, editors. J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1992.Weppler, Debbie and J.M. Civetta "Preventive care: Poorly appreciated and undervalued." Critical Care, 3rd edition, J.M. Civetta, R.W. Taylor, and R.R. Kirby, editors. J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1997. Weppler, Debbie, R. Khan, G.P. Fragulidis, J.R. Nery, C. Ricordi, and A.G. Tzakis."Status of Liver/GI Transplantation," Clinical Transplantation, P. Teresaki and J.M. Cecka, editors. UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, 1997.Fragulidis, G.P., D. Weppler, J.R. Nery, M.F. Khan, T. Kato, M. Webb, and A.G. Tzakis."Liver Transplantation," Advanced Techniques of Liver Transplantation in Techniques in Liver Surgery, A. Mazziotti and A. Vavallari, editors. Grenwich Medical Media, London, UK, 1997.Fragulidis, G.P., D. Weppler, J.R. Nery, M.F. Khan, T. Kato, M. Webb, and A.G. Tzakis."Intestinal Multiorgan Transplantation." Techniques in Liver Surgery, G. Gozzetti, A. Mazziotti, and A. Cavallari, editors. Grenwich Medical Media, London UK, 1997.Khan, F.A., J. Thompson , M.G. Webb, J.R. Nery, L. Olson, A. Viciana, J. Raskin, A. Rogers, C.R. Luque, D. Weppler, R. Khan , R. Koutouby, R. Romero, P. Ruiz, A. Gyamfi, J. Jacque, R. Reddy, P. Byers, C. Ricordi, and A.G.Tzakis."Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation," Transplantation, L.C. Ginns, M.D., A.B. Cosimi, M.D., and P.J. Morris, M.D., F.R.S., editors. Blackwell Science, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1999.