African Americans and Organ Donations, Drs. MFaulkner and AStevenson1

Comments With Dr. James Haney Presents*African Americans and Organ Donations, with Drs. MFaulkner, and AStevenson, two health professional from Meharry Medical College, who talks about some of the issues associated with Africans and organ donations, while urging African Americans to be donors, Part 1
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African American Tissue and Organ Donation Program*
Dr. James Haney
African American organ and tissue donations are low, said Dr. Marquetta Faulkner, Chief,
Division of Kidney Disease, at Meharry Medical College. African American donations "were 3.5 percent about ten years ago. Now we are up to 12 or 13 percent, which is still low, because we are about 33 percent of the dialysis population overall. We still make up 50 percent of the transplant waiting list in many areas."
Faulkner is a graduate of Meharry Medical College, class of 1981, did her residency in
Internal Medicine at Meharry , worked in Public Health in Mississippi, before doing a fellowship
at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. She returned to Meharry in 1989 and helped
to start a dialysis program. "At that time," said Dr. Faulkner, "I noticed a large number of minority
patients going onto dialysis." Even though the state of Tennessee is less than 15 percent
minority, African American have more than fifty percent of the list of persons waiting for dialysis.
Shortly thereafter she met Dr. Clyde Calendar, a transplant surgeon at Howard University
in Washington. She had heard Dr. Calendar make a presentation in St. Louis on minority
transplantation and the need for organ donors among minorities. "At that time I said that if there
was anything that I could do to get more minority participation in the donor program, I would do
it." For the next three years, Dr. Faulkner worked at Meharry trying to encourage more minority
participation in organ donations and transplantation.
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