Our 2011 Annual Meeting was held on
Sunday, October 23, 2011
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Program - a panel speaking on the topic of Anatomical Donations.
Your Last Gift:
Anatomical Donations
Come learn about options for donating your organs and/or whole body.
Have you considered donating your body to a medical school? Or donating your kidneys to sustain life in another person? Or donating your brain to science or your eyes to improve another’s sight?
Come hear about agencies that accept organ, tissue, or whole body donations.
Panelists will included:
- Ginnie Teed, Program Manager for Tissue Development, New England Organ Bank
- Joe Manzo, Administrative Coordinator, Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Bank
- Carol Coan, author, Unwrapping the Anatomical Gift (UMass Anthropology PhD)
A short video about the Anatomical Gift Program at the UMass Medical School was shown.
A question and answer period followed the panel presentation.
Location:
Rockridge Retirement Community
Community Room
25 Coles Meadow Road, Northampton, MA
Click here for Driving Directions
There is no charge for the meeting which is open to the public (you do not have to be a member to attend our annual meetings or board meetings) and includes free refreshments in addition to a brief business meeting with reports and elections.
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Other Past Annual Meetings have featured:
2010 Joanna Lillian Brown, author of "Caring for Dying Loved Ones: A Helpful Guide for Families and Friends".
2009 Panel on home funerals: “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Home Funerals but Didn’t Know Whom to Ask”
2008 Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, spoke on "Bringing Green Burial to Western Massachusetts".
See our Annual Meetings Archive for more on past meetings
Watch for more details on our next annual meeting as the date approaches.