Working With Organ Donors — Interview with Kathleen Roberg
Recorded: July 2018
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Webinar Speaker:
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Kathleen Roberg – Organ Procurement Coordinator UW OTD
Webinar Moderator:
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Henry Fersko-Weiss – INELDA Executive Director
As End of Life Doulas, we don’t often work with a dying person who can still serve as an organ donor. Most of our clients are too compromised physically at the end of their disease process for their organs to be useful or successfully retrieved. However, you will on occasion have a client who can donate some organs, such as skin or corneas, or perhaps even other organs. In those cases, you have to carefully follow certain protocols for the retrieval to be successful.
INELDA will interview Kathleen Roberg, an Organ Procurement Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin Organ and Tissue Donation program (UW OTD). Kathleen will discuss how she approaches the subject of organ donation with people who may be eligible to donate. She will also explain the retrieval process and explore the impact of donation protocols on doulas’ work.
Please join us for a fascinating topic and conversation with an organ procurement specialist who has taken our training and is planning on working as a doula in these kind of cases, as well as with other dying people.
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