Matching Donors to Organs: The politics, ethics and economics

A co-sponsored, public event

Date:	Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:15 Hors d'oeuvres 6:00 Presentations and Discussion
Location:	San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park
Organizers:	Current Issues Forum of San Diego and The College of Professional Studies & Fine Arts in collaboration with Joseph Fisch and Joyce Axelrod
Panelists:	Dr. Francis Delmonico, vice president/president-elect of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network/United Organ Sharing Network (OPTN/UNOS) board of directors and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Brian Doherty, senior editor of Reason magazine and author of This Is Burning Man and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. Dr. Arthur Matas, professor of Surgery and Director of Renal Transplant Service at the University of Minnesota and serves on the American Society of Transplant Physicians Awards Committee, the International Society for Organ Sharing, ASTS Nominations Committee, and ASTS Informatics and Data Management Committee.
Moderators:	Lawrence M. Hinman, Director of the Values Institute, Professor of Philosophy at USD, and co-founder of the Ethics Center Nancy Vaughan, Partner, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and member of the Ethics Center Board of Advisors
Contact:	To RSVP, call (619) 594-3095 or email CIFSD.
Description:	Today, there are over 92,000 people waiting for organs and each day eighteen of them will die before they get one. The wait in many locations is over five years and by 2010, it is expected to double. Concerned physicians, ethicists, legal scholars, and economists are urging dramatic reform, including legislative change to permit compensation to donors. Three distinguished panelists will discuss incentives to enhance the supply of lifesaving organs at this forum.

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