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MTI Special Events
WHO:
More than 450 people are expected to attend the Humanitarian Award Celebration to benefit the Miami Transplant Institute (MTI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Supporters from the business, social and celebrity community will join the Honorable Raul Valdez-Fauli and his wife Francia, event chairs, to honor those who have donated $1 million or more to the MTI to fund research in organ transplantation: Linda & Phil Corey; Judith & Dr. Robert Cornfeld; Norman Millstein; and Cynthia & Terry Taylor.
WHAT:
A sophisticated and elegant event, the Humanitarian Award event celebrates the life-saving accomplishments of the Miami Transplant Institute – the donors, the doctors, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital. The 2012 celebration includes heart-warming tributes and testimonials and entertainment certain to please the diverse crowd.
WHERE:
The JW Marriott Marquis Miami
255 Biscayne Boulevard Way
Miami, Florida 33131
WHEN:
Saturday, March 17, 2011 7:00 PM – 11:30 PM
WHY:
Proceeds from the Humanitarian Award Celebration will help the MTI lead the way to prevent organ rejection without the need for powerful anti-rejection medication, pioneer the development of additional sources of transplantable tissues from stem cells, and provide advanced patient care and education.
CONTACT:
Irma Friedman, Executive Director of Development, Miami Transplant Institute
Phone: 305-355-5708 E-mail: ifriedman@med.miami.edu.
About the Miami Transplant Institute:
The Miami Transplant Institute (MTI), a center of excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is one of the world’s premier transplant institutes providing a setting for the brightest minds, most advanced research, and finest patient care. For the countless individuals affected by life-threatening disease looking for a life saving-organ transplant, the Miami Transplant Institute is their best hope.
MTI’s kidney program received the Silver Award, (one of only six programs to receive this honor) and the liver and pancreas programs received the Bronze Award for extraordinary performance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These prestigious national awards are based on performance in three categories: graft survival one year after transplant, transplant rate, and mortality rate after being placed on the transplant list.
The University of Miami has a rich history in the field of organ transplantation and over the last four decades has developed into a preeminent, international transplant institute. Under the guidance of three superbly talented division chiefs, Drs. Andreas Tzakis, George Burke, and Si Pham, the transplant faculty performs more than 500 transplant procedures each year, placing the Miller School of Medicine’s Miami Transplant Institute as one of the elite high-volume transplant centers in the nation.
In addition to liver, kidney, pancreas, heart and lung transplants, our surgeons are uniquely skilled to perform the most complex procedures such as intestinal and multi-visceral transplants — making MTI one of the few places in the world where such extraordinary surgeries are undertaken.