Short version of Dr. Barry’s TEDx talk

Posted on 22/04/2013 by Chris Barry

Here is a 5 minute edit of my TEDx talk on organ donation:

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You will be cared for

Posted on 19/04/2013 by Chris Barry

Do you think you’ll be treated differently in the Intensive Care Unit if you’re a registered organ donor? You are SO wrong! Check out this video of truth by Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network:

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Comfort and Closure from Organ Donation

Posted on 06/04/2013 by Chris Barry

I mention in my TEDx talk on organ donation that families and loved ones of deceased

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organ donors often experience a profound sense of comfort and closure knowing that the tragedy of death and deep loss resulted in a renewal of life in many others. I had come to know this by talking with donor families. But recently, I experienced these powerful emotions first hand.

My Step-mother Sandy had been a loving and caring wife to my Dad for decades. One day, she was not feeling so well with some vague abdominal discomfort and malaise.  Being raised a tough farm girl, she carried a sense of tenacity and stoicism into her adult life, so she toughed it out for a while until she really got sick. All of a sudden, she was in the operating room where the surgeons removed a short segment of dead intestine that had become trapped around some scar tissue from a previous surgery long ago. Although the surgery was successful, she went into an intense inflammatory state after the operation, requiring mechanical ventilation, medicines to keep her blood pressure up, and broad-spectrum antibiotics. She was critically ill, but she was receiving superlative care and, after 10 long days, things seemed to be getting better.

Then she suffered a massive stroke.

This turn of events was completely unexpected and tragic. There was too much blood and tissue damage in her brain for the Neurosurgeons to be able to fix. She was not expected to have a “meaningful neurologic recovery” (that is, she would never be able to wake up and talk to us and laugh with us). Worst of all, at least as it appeared to me, my father, and my brothers, she was not dead.

Sandy had specifically stated in her living will that she would not want to be kept on artificial life support in a futile situation. I knew very well from my experience, however, that withdrawing care at this point would not result in her passing. Her heart was beating strong without any medical support. The breathing machine was on minimal settings and she was essentially breathing on her own.
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The stroke had delivered a cruel non-terminal blow.

So we waited. We made sure that she was not suffering and that she was surrounded by love because that is all that is important in the end. When I was young, I never understood Johann Sebastian Bach’s song “Come sweet death, come blessed rest”, but now I did with all my heart. The only possible good thing that could come out of this horrible situation would be if Sandy could become an organ and tissue donor.  She could live on in others. She could save many lives. She could improve many more lives. We waited until she either progressed to brain death or to the point where she could become a donor after cardiac collapse. We waited several days, not rushing anyone into actions that would spoil her candidacy as an organ donor.

Sandy eventually progressed to brain death and we asked the ICU to contact the local organ donor recovery organization. They compassionately and expertly took over her care and Sandy became a donor. Of note, Sandy was not on the New York State Donate Life Registry, but Sandy, Dad, and I often had conversations together and we knew she wanted to become a donor when the time came. She even sported bLifeNY.org stick-on tattoos in support of donation awareness, striking up conversations with random people in the grocery store check out line.

Imagine if we didn’t have this conversation beforehand and Dad had to make this decision when he was shocked and devastated with grief? We were so grateful that we had spoken about this and we knew exactly how Sandy felt about being an organ donor.

My family and I now know that the comfort and closure of organ donation is real. Having been already registered to be a donor would have been ideal, and maybe one day it will be easier and more socially acceptable to register, but the conversation was key. Talk to your Mom and Dad, your kids, your brothers and sisters, your relatives, your loved ones, your friends, and random people in the grocery store check out line. Saving lives and improving lives through organ and tissue donation is miraculous. These miracles start with another miracle: the decision to become a donor.

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I Support the “Organ Donation Driver Education Act of 2013” (Maryland SB 768)

Posted on 18/02/2013 by Chris Barry

Here is the text of my testimonial to the Maryland State Senate on February 20th, 2013 in support of a bill to link organ donation awareness with driver’s education.

Dear Maryland General Assembly Members: I enthusiastically endorse the “Organ Donation Driver Education Act of 2013” (Maryland SB 768) sponsored by Senator Jamie Raskin and his colleagues Senators Garagiola, Kasemeyer, King, Kittleman, Klausmeier, Montgomery, and Robey. This proposed bill would require the Maryland driver education program to include an online course on organ and tissue donation, thereby providing a continuous source of vitally important information to a broad and influential group of Maryland’s citizens.

I am a transplant surgeon in Rochester, NY with an active commitment to organ donation awareness. Two years ago, we established a grassroots organ donation awareness group, bLifeNY.org, at the University of Rochester Medical Center. BlifeNY is composed of high school, undergraduate, and medical students, as well as transplant professionals and interested community members including transplant recipients, organ donors, and family members of organ donors. Although our focus is primarily on increasing organ donor registration rates in New York State (currently 49th lowest in the nation), we support efforts throughout the country that educate the public about the remarkable success of transplantation, the importance of organ donation, and efforts to encourage everyone to thoughtfully consider registering to become organ donors. We have learned through our experience and through the published literature that the engagement of youth, the establishment of broadly reaching educational efforts, and the identification of suitable environments for thoughtful consideration and conversations are all extremely important components of effective organ donation awareness.

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Transplantation is one of the most remarkable successes of modern medicine with long-term success rates approaching 80%. Unfortunately, there is an inexorably growing disparity between the number of people awaiting transplant and the number of organ donors. Nineteen people die every day in the United States awaiting transplants because there are not enough donors. One donor can potentially save up to 8 lives through organ donation and dramatically improve the lives of up to 50 people through eye and tissue donation. Although Maryland enjoys a very respectful 47% organ donation registration rate, this could be better. Senator Raskin’s bill, if passed into law, could save many lives and improve the lives of even more. Success would show the nation that Maryland is a compassionate and forward-thinking land and offer a strategy that could be emulated by other states.

I see this bill as an act of common sense. Just as parents have conversations with their children that smoking is not healthy or that one should not drink and drive, having a conversation whether to give the gift of life should be encouraged and firmly embedded into all aspects of our society.

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A Family, a story of “Organ Donation on both sides of the fence”

Posted on 14/02/2013 by Chris Barry

Our story begins on March 24, 2002 when our second born son, I’ll call him “Wisdom” who was a 14 year old boy, Captain of his youth hockey team, very active & had no known childhood illnesses.  On that day in March of 2002, Wisdom became ill with what we thought was an upper respiratory infection and was seen by our family Dr. and put on a 5 day antibiotic.  By the third day, our son was not getting any relief from the deep cough he had developed and was very weak and listless.  I called his Dr. to have him seen again.  A mother’s instinct is strong and I heard him in our bathroom coughing uncontrollably and moaning in a way I had never heard come from him before. After seeing the Dr., she advised us that Wisdom be sent to the Hospital for possible “dehydration”, and to get some IV fluids to remedy his symptoms. Wisdom had no strength, he barely had the strength to walk, and get into the car.  When we got to the emergency room, our son was admitted to the Pediatric Unit to be assessed.  After over 3 hours of IV fluids and nebulizer treatments, our son was not getting any better.  He complained of severe abdominal pain, and was complaining of nausea, and a rapid heart rate. The Dr. ordered a portable X-ray of our son’s chest.  After the X-ray was taken, there was a quiet stillness that filled the pediatric unit that I became acutely aware of.  I overheard a nurse outside of his room say two words ~ “Enlarged Heart”.  I called the nurse to the room, and she stated that the X-ray did show a possible enlarged heart, but that they wanted to get a clearer picture of it in the X-Ray Department.  My husband arrived by then, and lifted our son’s weak and limp like body to the X-ray table, kissing him and encouraging him to do as the doctors needed him to do.  

It was a whirlwind after the X-Ray was taken.  It was true, our son’s heart was enlarged, and now he was surrounded by a fast acting medical team; Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and the pediatric cardiologist coming together at once to move our boy upstairs to be better evaluated.  Our son Wisdom ryptonite was now fighting for air and was starting to panic, which increased his respirations, making it harder for him to breathe.  I felt helpless, and I was led out of his room as the medical staff tried to calm him and give him oxygen. Our son was fighting the oxygen mask until the nurses told him that they would have to intubate him if he didn’t take the oxygen this way. Wisdom calmed down, and took the oxygen and tried to sleep.

 My husband and I were asked by the pediatric cardiologist to come and sit down to talk to us.  We sat down and the words that came next will forever be burned into our memories.  “Your son is in critical condition, he is in severe congestive heart failure, and his heart is enlarged four times its normal size.”  The cardiologist went on to say “Your son’s only chance for survival at this point is a Heart Transplant!”  The doctor went on to state “we are not a pediatric heart transplant center, so get ready, because your lives are going to change forever.”  He stated “you will have to relocate to another area that has a Pediatric Transplant Center.”

I watched the Doctor’s mouth move, and the words did not make any sense to me.  I was in shock, how could my perfectly normal 14 year old son who was just playing hockey last week be in “Congestive Heart Failure”?  The Doctor went on to explain that Wisdom had severe “Dilated Cardiomyopathy” of unknown cause.  He explained to us that a virus inside his body for a long time could have very well caused the horrible destruction of his heart.  It was also possible that it was also inherited known as “Hypotrophic Cardiomyopathy.”  We as a family would need to all be tested.  Our oldest son, I’ll call him “Peace” who was only 23 months older, 16 years old, would also need to be tested to see if he also carried a gene that could be the cause of this horrible and rare disease.  I myself was born with a congenital heart defect called “Patent Ductus Arteriosus“ and it was not detected until I was 12 years old by a Doctor during a school physical.  I was operated on at the same hospital and during the surgery something went terribly wrong and I had a sudden aortic aneurysm. I was in surgery for 12 hours, and the Doctors could not stop the bleeding. That same Pediatric Cardiologist, now older, was the same Doctor present during my own life & death experience, and went on to tell a fellow working with him that I had emptied the hospital’s blood bank.  I had used 70 units of blood during my 12 hour ordeal. At last, the surgeon was able to put a graft into my aorta and the bleeding finally stopped. My parents were told I may never talk, walk, or ever be the same again because of the long period of time I was under anesthesia, and the huge amount of blood loss.  It would be 3 weeks later on my 13th Birthday that I would walk out of the hospital to go home.  After several years of follow-up by my Pediatric Doctor, it was determined that I was growing normally, and had no restrictions at all in my young teen-age years and the years following.  These memories will always be with me in detail to this day in my mind.

Within 4 hours, our son was moved to the “Pediatric ICU”.  He was surrounded by so many medical staff, sticking him with blood draws, taking orders from the Cardiologist to start a “pic line”.  In addition, he was hooked up to a cocktail of at least 8 different IV medications to keep his weak and damaged heart pumping to supply enough blood to the rest of his body.  I never left his side, only to go to the bathroom, or go to the waiting room to fall apart in pure terror and exhaustion. But fortunately, I was surrounded by many family members and friends.  For two weeks our son was in our local hospital when it became an emergency situation after he experienced a “heart attack”. He looked up at me and said “Mom, I’m going to die!”  I’ll never forget the look of terror in his eyes!!  Within seconds there were several nurses, respiratory therapists, & cardiologist running into his room.  After lab tests were drawn to determine if he had indeed experienced a heart attach, it came back clear that he had, and now his heart was even more severely damaged.  It was time to move him to a Transplant Center immediately!!!  We were flown by a Lear jet to Boston Children’s Hospital.  About a 6 hour drive, that took us only 22 minutes on a very fast jet. 

When we arrived at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, our son was immediately put through another round of testing to get a good look at his damaged heart.  We were immediately met by the Pediatric Cardiologist and head of the Pediatric Transplant Department.  She had a beautiful down to earth and calming personality, and she insisted we call her by her first name: “Betsy”!  She was worried about us, and social workers and other support staff approached us to help us navigate the whole crisis our family was now experiencing. 

It would be two weeks of extensive testing for Wisdom to go through to evaluate his other organ systems to see if he was sick enough to go on the transplant waiting list, or if he was too sick and not strong enough to survive a transplant and not be put on the list.  We found out on April 12th, that he would be placed on the “United Network of Organ Sharing” list.  He would be at the top of the list as a “Status 1A”, which meant he was in desperate need of a heart quickly.  We were given a pager by the Doctor, and told, “This could take days, weeks, or even months, to find a suitable donor that would save our son’s life.  

Twenty Six hours later, Wisdom’s cardiologist bounced into his room and sat at the end of his bed and said; Wisdom you’re not going to believe this, but we’ve found the perfect donor”! Wisdom’s first statement was of concern for another young girl “Marissa” who was in the hospital for the same condition, and he stated “What about Marissa, she’s been waiting longer than me”?  Betsy explained gently how the matching process worked, and that this heart would not match Marissa’s criteria. 

We again were numb and didn’t know how to feel at first knowing that our son was now going to go into an operating room and have his heart removed from his body and another’ person’s heart put into him to beat normally and give him a second chance at life.  After the announcement of the donor match for Wisdom the nurses on the unit were dancing, bringing balloons into his room, hugging him, hugging us.  Excitement and joy filled the unit.

We immediately called our other son “Peace” to tell him of the good news, and that if he wanted to see his brother before the surgery, he would need to get a ride to Boston to see him before he went through the surgery. Peace and an older friend drove through the night for 6 hours, but unfortunately missed the opportunity to see his brother prior to the surgery. 

The memory after this for me is very fuzzy, I remember the wonderful nursing staff & Doctor’s updating us every hour on how things were progressing.  They would say; “OK, we’ve prepared Wisdom for the new heart, but we have not removed his sick heart yet, he’s on a by-pass machine now and stable as we wait for the donor heart to arrive”.  Next update was;  “we’ve got the heart in the bucket and now we are ready to proceed to take Wisdom ‘s sick heart out and replace it with a beautiful healthy heart”.  It seemed like eternity until the next update.  The nurse came to us in the waiting room & said; “OK, they are now doing the transplant and your son is stable”, everything is going beautifully!!” The next update was a miraculous one!!  “The heart is in and now beating beautifully inside your son’s chest!!!” 

Wisdom recovered quickly, not without bumps in the road, but he did very well, and was out of the hospital within two weeks.  We stayed in the New England Area with a good friend, so that the Doctor’s could keep track of our son’s recovery, and check him three times a week at the hospital to ensure that all was going well. 

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My husband was unable to stay with us in New England after our son’s surgery because of his job, and of course our older son Peace needed his Dad to be close and support one another until we returned home.  K Wisdom was given the green light to go home by his Doctors in Boston.  He was so very happy, and actually was able to attend the last week of school in the 8th Grade.  He was welcomed back home by family, many friends, and a wonderful community that ran fund-raisers to help our family get through our crisis living in two locations, with all the costs involved. 

Today, Wisdom is a 25 year old young man, healthy, happy, adventurous, and living life to the fullest!!  He will graduate from Nursing School this May ~ 2013 and will be getting married this July to the “Love of his Life”!!!  

Wisdom is our hero, and a very loving and witty, smart young man that wants to give back by working as a Nurse & future Education as a possible Nurse Practitioner.  He is a sign to others ~ a living happy young man that got a second lease on life because someone decided to go through with their loved one’s wishes and donate their organs after death, to save another human being.  The decision to donate a loved one’s organs, tissues, & corneas during the most horrific time of their life is nothing less than heroic and shows all of us that there are still more good people in the world than bad!!! 

Our family’s story does not end here in regards to “Organ Donation & Tissue Donation” 

On August 30th, 2010 I would be awoken by a knock on my front door at 2:25am.  I was asleep on my couch waiting for my oldest son “Peace” to come home safely.  He and his father had just both bought brand new Harley Davidsons!!  Peace and his father were very close, and did a lot together in life. I walked to the door to find two Deputy Sheriffs at my door.  They asked me if this was the home of Peace and I replied “Yes”.  Still asleep, and groggy, I was almost positive I had heard my son come home already, and heard him do his normal routine of getting a cold drink from the refrigerator & then hearing his footsteps going downstairs to his room.  I then thought that perhaps he had been chased by the police and was in some type of trouble.  The Deputies asked to come into my house and I said “NO”!!  I was in “Mother Lion Protective Mode” and again I was convinced my son Peace was already home, bike in the garage, and he was asleep.  The Deputies stood at my front door, and then I walked out to them, and started to feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up.  I said “Where is my son?, they just looked at me very uneasily, by then I was screaming “WHERE IS MY SON?”.  Then from the mouth of one of the Deputies came the words: “He’s at the Medical Examiner’s Office, he’s gone!!! “He crashed his motorcycle tonight into a guard-rail and was killed”!!!  I screamed “Did he suffer, oh GOD did he suffer?”  The Deputy replied “No he didn’t”.  After that I went into shock walking in circles screaming, and yelling “NO, NO, NO, NO”.  I told my husband to drive to my other son’s apartment and tell him and bring him home.  My husband did and Wisdom came home to the awful sound of grief, with its pain & moaning.

Our first born son was a beautiful gift from GOD & at the age of 5 years old picked up his Daddy’s guitar and started strumming it with precise timing, as he sang along in perfect pitch.  It wouldn’t take him long to learn many songs he would hear, and play by ear.  Peace also learned how to teach himself how to play the banjo, and harmonica, all at the sweet tender age of 5 years old.  We knew by now, that our son had a GOD given Gift of raw musical talent!!  We would often remind him of his gift from GOD.  As the years passed by, Peace played in many local bands as lead singer, and lead guitarist, he had an amazing energy on stage, and people were mesmerized by his amazing guitar leads.  As parent of a gifted musician, we became his “roadies” and we loved it! Peace also composed his own music and had his own recording studio in our basement that would soon become a legitimate recording business.  Peace just loved playing music, and many of his friends from high school went on to study music at well-known music schools, and would always come home and reunite with what they described as one of the most talented and diverse musicians they had ever played with.

When Peace left this earth, we made the decision to donate some of his tissue & his cornea’s to help others in need of life changing anatomical gifts.  Shortly after his passing, we were told that our son’s corneas had given the “Gift of Sight to two different people”! We knew Peace always gave 110% of himself in his life here on earth.  He was also an excellent savvy auto mechanic with computer skills that often would puzzle many others in the shop he worked in. Peace was humble, loving, giving, and a beautiful young man of 24 years young.  Peace touched so many hearts in his life with his music and giving ways to others. He once cut his long beautiful black hair and donated it to “Locks of Love” to give something to a sick child who had lost their hair during their sickness.

We are profoundly changed as people after the loss of our son.  We are now on “Both sides of the Fence”!!  We have now experienced both the recipient’s experience with the “Gift of Life” for our youngest son Wisdom, and the profound experience of “Giving the Gift of Life” as the parents that tragically lost a son.

We know the JOY, we know the agony!!

Recycle yourself!!!  Organ Donation saves lives!!

Kahlil Gibran – “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

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Are Transplant Surgeons “Money Grubbing Vultures”?

Posted on 24/01/2013 by Chris Barry
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Transplant surgeons are not money grubbing vultures!

So I’m in the operating room the other night getting ready to start an organ recovery operation (news alert: the term “organ harvest” is old school and demeaning. Teach everyone to say “organ recovery” instead) when one of the nurses got all cranky. She said she hated these operations, that she would never become an organ donor herself, and that we were all a bunch of “money grubbing vultures”.

Ouch.

At the time I was very polite and reiterated my belief that organ donation is a highly personal decision and anyone can decide not to be a donor should they wish. But the inappropriateness of her remarks (hello, filter please!) really got to me after a short while. The donor was a young, vibrant person who had decided long ago to donate her organs to those in need upon her death. Her family and loved ones (including two who are health care professionals) understood and strongly supported her wishes. Other people’s lives were saved that night. She gave precious gifts.

So I’m a money grubbing vulture?

I suppose that my livelihood does to an extent rely on death. There just aren’t enough living donors out there and tissue engineering is not yet at the point where we can grow organs in the lab and pull them off the shelf as needed. But I don’t think that’s the correct perspective. I look at the end result first: tens of thousands of Americans each year are given a new lease on life with successful transplants. This is a transformative experience for these recipients because they have known health and have experienced illness, often life-threatening illness. So when they return to how they were before they ever got sick, their lives are all the more precious and meaningful. They are true spiritual warriors and real-life miracles in this world.

This miracle takes a second miracle in order to manifest: an organ donor. It is an incredible act of compassion to give a part of one’s very physical being to another human being. This altruism emphasizes that we are all one tribe, one family, and that we’re all in this together. I can’t imagine a more meaningful or selfless act.
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From this perspective, there is still the tragedy of death and the profound sadness of loss. But it gives this very real and inevitable thing called death meaning. There are all the newfound hopes and joys in others. The cycle continues as it does and must. There exists the opportunity to continue celebrating the lives and memories of those passed.  I can’t imagine a more meaningful way to die.

Perhaps I’m idealistic or I’m simply rationalizing my own existence. But I truly feel that I’m a part of something much greater than me (yes, we surgeons can be humble). I’m here to help and do my part the best I can. It is an awe-inspiring privilege to do so. Maybe there are some others in it for the money, but if I really wanted tons of money, I never would have become a doctor.

I do know that I’m not a vulture. The operation I perform to recover the organs for transplant is compassionate and is not disfiguring. Donors do not suffer and they are treated with the utmost respect and dignity. Surgery is not for the faint of heart, but at its best, it is a glorious and elegant act.

I really don’t know what to say to that nurse, other than what I’ve just written. She will likely to continue believing what she believes. What really troubles me is there is an undercurrent of fear and disdain for transplantation and organ donation among a minority of health care professionals. It’s hard to quantify this, but I’ve witnessed it first hand and heard about it second hand a number of times. Even if it’s just a few people out there with bad experiences, it’s enough to poison or otherwise misdirect public opinion.

For those of us who support organ donation and transplantation, the best we can do is to share our experiences and our truths with others. We need to educate and encourage compassion. This takes time and energy, but we help save lives each time we take action. So take it from this money grubbing vulture: live to celebrate life, live to share life, and live to love life.

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Priyanka’s Stardom Brings Light to URMC Transplant Gala

Posted on 28/10/2012 by Chris Barry
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PC’s red carpet walk at URMC’s Transplant Gala

On October 5th, 2012, the University of Rochester Medical Center celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Liver Transplant Program at a fabulous Bollywood inspired Transplant Gala. The sold out crowd of 500 guests were treated to an evening of Indian dance, food, and the presence of a very special guest, former Miss World, Bollywood film superstar, and emerging pop diva Priyanka Chopra. The Gala’s main focus was to raise awareness on the miracle of organ donation, but also honored were the Liver Transplant Program’s founding father, world famous surgeon Dr. Seymour Schwartz, and the entire local Indian community for their contribution to medical and scientific excellence throughout the Rochester area.

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Priyanka and her father Dr. Ashok Chopra

After a glamorous red carpet entrance by Miss Chopra to adoring fans, she then met with several VIPs and gave an interview with the evening’s emcee, local television personality Doug Emblidge. Priyanka and her parents, Drs. Ashok and Madhu Chopra, were treated to performances by local Indian dance troupes from Cornell University, the University of Rochester, and Pittsford. She delighted the enthusiastic young dancers by joining in the fun at the very end of their performance.

 

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David Omdahl, Priyanka Chopra, and Dr. Chris Barry

The program continued over dinner with speeches by transplant surgeon Dr. Chris Barry (who briefly touched on the major points of his recently released TEDx talk on organ donation, including the memorable line: “If you’re not an organ donor when you die, then you’re taking a lot of people with you”), Transplant Division Chief Dr. Mark Orloff (who honored Dr. Schwartz and bestowed upon him a shining Ganesha statue), donor mother Helene Ehmann (who delivered a touching reminiscence of her son who became an organ donor), URMC CEO Dr. Brad Berk (who celebrated URMC Transplant, the Indian community, and introduced Priyanka Chopra), and the special keynote address by “PC”.

 

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Priyanka Chopra’s keynote address

“I hope to God that when I die that I will be able to have so many people live on because of me.”

“No amount of charity that you’ve done all your life will equal donating your organs.”

“(Pledging to be an organ donor) is one of the things you will always be proud of all of your life because you know your life will be worth something.”

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Drs. Brad Berk, Mark Orloff, Priyanka Chopra, and Anil Sharma

The evening carried on with festive dancing by all, sumptuous Indian desserts from Tandoor of India, a book signing by Dr. Schwartz, and opportunities for everyone to learn more about organ donation and take action to register as donors. All in all, it was an incredible success, especially thanks to Priyanka Chopra!

 

 

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Dr. Chris Barry’s Speech to Priyanka Chopra

Posted on 17/10/2012 by Chris Barry

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Dr. Chris Barry: “Thank you everyone for coming to the Transplant Gala tonight! We’re here to celebrate the URMC Liver Transplant Program’s 20th anniversary, to honor our founding father Dr. Seymour Schwartz, and most importantly, to learn more about the miracle of organ donation. I’d like to thank Sutherland Global Services for their sponsorship of this very important event. Some of you may not realize that Sutherland has a significant Healthcare practice – a practice that is focused on driving efficiency and productivity in the healthcare sector. The Chairman and CEO, Dilip Vellodi is, unfortunately, traveling overseas and can’t be here tonight but wanted me to convey his best wishes and personal congratulations on this remarkable 20 year milestone for the Liver Transplant program. I’d also like to thank Priyanka Chopra and her parents Drs. Ashok and Madhu Chopra for their support of URMC transplant and the noble cause of organ donation.

Priyanka Chopra, organ donation, Dr. Chris Barry, bLifeNY, #WLY, transplantation, Bollywood, #drbarryindiaTransplantation is extremely successful but in this success lies its biggest problem. There are not enough organ donors to save the lives or improve the lives of everyone awaiting organ or tissue transplants. 19 people die every day while waiting on the transplant list. That’s equivalent to 13 jumbo jets filled to capacity crashing every year and there are no survivors. All it really takes is a simple signature. If more people had the courage and took the time to talk about organ donation, learn more about it, and thoughtfully considered becoming donors, then more people would sign up.

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Priyanka Chopra, organ donation, Dr. Chris Barry, bLifeNY, #WLY, transplantation, Bollywood, #drbarryindiaI learned about Lord Shiva when reading Abraham Verghese’s beautiful novel Cutting for Stone. Shiva is the supreme god who millions turn to in impossibly bad situations, praying that something good may come out of tragedy and duress. This is exactly the situation faced by donor families who, in a time of deep loss and tragedy, realize that other lives might be saved through organ donation. So I urge all of you to learn more about organ donation, talk with your family and loved ones about it, and even consider pledging to be a donor yourself should you wish. Thank you all for coming tonight and continue to enjoy this remarkable evening.”

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Priyanka Chopra’s URMC Keynote Address on Organ Donation

Posted on 12/10/2012 by Chris Barry

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Priyanka Chopra: “Thank you to the URMC for inviting me here. I congratulate URMC’s, 20 years of the liver transplant program. I come from a family of doctors (parents, uncles, aunts) and the importance of medicine was told to me at a very young age and I value that. Thank you so much for you all do. It takes a lot of courage to be in the profession of medicine and I have learned that it is a selfless profession. It is not only about taking care of someone when they are sick but I think, to me, it is the second most important profession, I say, after God. You have the power to give someone life and this is from coming from someone who loves life. Even if it is helping someone to get rid of a tummy ache or doing a liver transplant.

Being a part of my Dad’s illness not just only taught me the value of life but also, to appreciate and value the profession you all here are in today. My Dad is my idol, someone whom I look up to for almost everything in life. The strength and resilience that he has shown through his illness shows me how every moment is important and how valuable it to donate an organ. You all are here since you understand the cause, however, in my other talks I put it to people that is a very personal experience. When I advocate for this cause most people don’t like talking about this, or they cringe at the thought of donating an organ of a loved one. Also, until my Dad’s illness I did not realize the value of donating an organ. You don’t realize its value until loved one needs it and when the loved one who needs it wishes there were more people donating their organs. There are so many people out there who might be eligible for organ donation as we speak.

Many in today’s generation may not realize that they are so venerable and when my friend received an organ she realized how grateful she was to someone who donated an organ to her and brought her to tears.

It is a very important cause for me and I try to advocate and talk as much as I can.

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You read about transplant, see it in movies, and watch it on TV, but only until you go through it the value of it hits you. If you learn from someone’s experience, it is valuable what organ donation is rather than waiting for it to hit you.

I hope that when I die I can make a difference by donating my body.

We had so many options to go to anywhere in world, however, the kind of the best medical care, personal care that came from URMC doctors, nurses and staff was the best…and would like to applaud you all for that.

One of the actions that I have done and I seek you do is to be an organ donor. I am sure you will be proud of it all your life. You know that you would have taken care of so many lives. Donate your organs, tell people to donate their organs, be important and be a hero, I think it is the easiest way to be one.” Priyanka Chopra, organ donation, Dr. Chris Barry, bLifeNY, #WLY, transplantation, Bollywood

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Priyanka Chopra Rochester Press Release

Posted on 06/09/2012 by Chris Barry

URMC Gala Celebrates 20 Years of Liver Transplants

Keynote address by Bollywood Superstar Priyanka Chopra

September 06, 2012

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Priyanka Chopra is coming to town! Marking the 20th anniversary of its liver transplant program, the University of Rochester Medical Center will host a fundraising gala at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

The event will have a Bollywood theme and feature keynote speaker Priyanka Chopra. Superstar actor, humanitarian, green crusader and former Miss World, Chopra is a multifaceted personality and one of the most recognized and lauded talents in Indian cinema. She devotes considerable time to international humanitarian causes, including her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

In 2011, Chopra was signed to 2101/Desi Hits! /Interscope Records to pursue her passion for music. Chopra’s debut single “In My City,” featuring performer will.i.am and produced by RedOne (Lady Gaga) and Brian Kennedy, is launching this month. Chopra and the single have been chosen as the featured artist and song for Thursday Night Kickoff, the weekly pregame show for NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football.

Her father, Ashok Chopra, M.D., a renowned plastic surgeon in India, has been treated for several years at URMC for a liver illness. In the course of his treatment, Priyanka Chopra learned of URMC’s Solid Organ Transplant Program and recently pledged to be an organ donor.

Chopra uses her celebrity status to promote the enormous impact of and need for organ donation. “A simple way to look at this is to put yourself in that position,” she said. “If someone you loved needed an organ transplant to save their life, wouldn’t you wish that there was someone who was there to donate one? I realized the value of organ donation as my father came close to needing one recently. By pledging to donate an organ, you can actually save someone’s life. Take the pledge, make a difference, save a life.”

While the goal of the event is to raise awareness of the need for organ donation, funds raised through the gala will be used for patient care, advocacy, research and education. Seymour I. Schwartz, M.D., Distinguished Alumni Professor of Surgery, who is widely known for his significant impact on hepatobiliary (liver) surgery and his contributions to the surgical literature, will be honored at the gala. URMC transplant surgeon Christopher Barry, M.D., Ph.D. associate professor of Surgery, is gala chair. Parul Patel, MSc. Biotech, is co-chair, and Anil K. Sharma, M.D., clinical associate professor of Medicine, is honorary co-chair.

The Medical Center’s Division of Solid Organ Transplantation is the only liver transplant program in upstate New York and has performed more than 1,500 transplants.

URMC’s transplant team includes four surgeons who serve patients from across New York and northern Pennsylvania in need of kidney, pancreas and liver transplants. In addition, two surgeons attend to patients undergoing heart transplants. Locally, more than 900 patients are waiting for a liver, kidney, heart or pancreas transplant. Hundreds of others in our area will be helped this year by tissue transplants such as cornea, bone, tendon, ligaments and heart valves.

“We are thrilled to host Ms. Chopra as we celebrate the transplant program’s achievements,” Barry said. “Through our Bollywood theme, we also pay tribute to the many outstanding local Indian physicians who help make this community so medically robust and respected. We’re very grateful to the Chopra family for their support.”

Tickets for the event are $175. For an additional cost, guests may attend a VIP reception with Priyanka Chopra before the gala. Call (585) 276-5169 for reservations. For more information about the event, as well as organ donation and transplantation news, log on to Barry’s blog, or the Facebook page for URMC’s bLifeNY donor awareness campaign.

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