Upcoming AATB Webinar - Thursday, May 31, 2012 Measure to Manage Authorization Methods to Achieve Organizational Goals  

Individual Members OR Accredited Organizations:  

$129/1st Connection; $30/each additional Connection    

Note: In order to receive the Member rate, you must first validate your email address at top the registration page, on the right. Be sure to double check the spelling of your email address and confirm that your email address contains the correct punctuation (i.e., periods, not commas, and that the @ sign is in the correct location).  

This email address should match the email address

on your Individual Member account with AATB.org.  

OR

assigned to you by your Accredited Tissue Bank/employer.  

After entering your email address in the validation box on the registration page, you may proceed with registration. If your email is validated, you will be given the member rate as advertised. If your email address is not validated, you will be charged the non-member rate.  

Additional Connections:  

If you need to register an additional computer connection at your organization you will need to email the registration help desk (aatb@commpartners.com) after the FIRST registration at your organization is complete. They will provide you with a unique discount code that can be used for subsequent connections.  

CEUs:  

1.5 Continuing Education Units will be offered for an unlimited number of attendees per live connection.  

Key Benefits:

• Shared Best Practices and immediate feedback
• Live Q&A with expert faculty
• Registration fee for live event includes CEU Certificate for all attendees
• Members have access to archives of webinar content for 30 days following the live event

Overview:  

This webinar will cover:

• Developing a measurement system that aligns with acknowledgement of death through either final decision by the Authorizing person, or time limits for recovery of tissue.
• Using Best Practices that provide authorizing persons with the best environment possible for making decisions concerning donation, not only focusing on the "Yes" answer.
• Using Analysis of Data to make conclusions regarding Process Optimization.
• Provide recommendations to authorization personnel to improve processes for donor families and healthcare stakeholders.

For your convenience, associated written materials will be made available electronically to all registrants prior to May 31st.  

Speakers:  

Donna Bishop, LifeNet Health  

As the Director for LifeNet Health's 24/7 donation-based Communication Center, Ms. Bishop provides the leadership and vision for a department of 30+ donation professionals. Ms. Bishop develops, implements and maintains effective processes for the medical and behavioral history evaluation of potential tissue and eye donors, as well as for obtaining legal authorization for donation and conducting detailed donor history interviews. She has presented at numerous national conferences and webinars for AATB, AOPO and AABB.  

Matthew Kurtzbein, Communication Specialist Manager, LifeSource  

Mr. Kurtzbein is the Communication Specialist Manager at LifeSource in St. Paul, Minnesota. As such, he provides support to the staff that approach authorizing persons on a daily basis. Mr. Kurtzbein is responsible for monitoring data and reflecting authorization rates for LifeSource. Prior to working at LifeSource, he worked as a Communication Specialist for 4 years approaching numerous donor families about the gift of donation.