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GUEST POST: Hawaii Cord Blood Bank – Sharing the Gift of Life

4/21/2016

 
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​The Hawaii Cord Blood Bank (HCBB) is an independent, non-profit community service organization which began operations in 1998 as a means to help the challenge of finding donors for Hawaii’s ethnically diverse patient population.

A growing proportion of Hawaii’s population is comprised of people from multiple race/mixed ethnicity backgrounds.

According to the 2010 census, there has been a 32% increase in the multiple race segment of our population over the last decade, and Hawaii leads this national trend with 23% of the State’s population reporting two or more races.
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This becomes a challenge when patients from Hawaii are searching for a matching bone marrow or stem cell donor since the majority of donors in our national registry are Caucasian, while donors from minorities (African American, Asian, Pacific Islanders) are underrepresented.
Mixed race patients may have inherited a tissue type that is common in one of their parent’s ethnic group, and another tissue type that is common in the other parent’s ethnic group. The combination of these two common types is often uncommon.

The diversity of Hawaii’s population is the main reason Hawaii patients needing stem cell transplants have an especially difficult time finding matching donors.

Although founded to serve the people of Hawaii to fill the critical need for cord blood from multi-ethnic donors, HCBB has also proven to be a valuable resource for patients of Asian, Polynesian, or mixed ethnicity worldwide.

The Hawaii Cord Blood Bank is addressing an important need through its umbilical cord blood banking efforts, which help to increase access to transplant for minority patients in Hawaii and throughout the world.

Thanks to the hard work and devotion of hundreds of doctors and nurses who volunteer their time on our behalf, we offer cord blood donations at all five birthing hospitals on Oahu at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, The Queens Medical Center, Tripler Army Medical Center, and Castle Medical Center as well as on Maui at the Maui Memorial Medical Center.

​Our cord blood units are sent to our partners at Bloodworks Northwest in Seattle for processing and storage. Cord blood units collected by the Hawaii Cord Blood Bank are listed with the National Marrow Donor Program’s network of cord blood banks.
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HCBB is a small organization, yet we have collected over 10,000 units and stored over 3,000 cord blood units of which approximately 87% of our cord blood units collected are from minority or multi-ethnic donors.
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Proud team at Hawai‘i Cord Blood Bank (left to right): Dr. Randal Wada, President and Medical Director, ​Charis Ober from Save the Cord Foundation, Linda Watanabe, Administrative Manager, Lynette Matsumoto, Program Coordinator, Allison Sears, Donor Coordinator, Lisa Wong-Yamamoto, Nurse Educator.
Hawaii’s unique racial demographics make Hawaii Cord Blood Bank a national model for a system of cord blood collection and banking that is truly capable of reflecting the full spectrum of ethnic diversity within the population it seeks to serve.
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Donor Maribeth Toledo‐ Cabuslay with Baby Ryan and Nurse Educator Lisa Wong‐Yamamoto, RNC as they wait to be interviewed by Hawai’i News Now newscasters

​We wish to thank the team at Hawaii Cord Blood Bank for this wonderful guest post and for the noble work they do everyday collecting cord blood and helping patients worldwide who are desperately waiting for a stem cell donor. You can learn more about the Hawaii Cord Blood Bank here.

Repairing Organs and Treating Neonatal Diseases with Stem Cell Therapy, presented by Dr. Bernard THEBAUD

4/19/2016

 
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Share the Science: Repairing Organs and Treating Neonatal Diseases with Stem Cell Therapy, presented by Dr. Bernard THEBAUD
​Dr. Bernard THEBAUD presents
“Recycling Matters: Cord-Derived Stem Cell Treatment of Neonatal Diseases”
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RECORDED:  Thursday, April 28th, 11 a.m. – Noon U.S. Central Time
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​Dr. THEBAUDS’s research focuses on the clinical translation of stem-cell-based therapies for neonatal disease. Perinatal care has improved tremendously over recent generations.  Thus, the survival rate of premature children has likewise increased.  However, with this improvement in survival rates come new challenges.  Dr. THEBAUD sees this first hand in his work.

A premature infant faces numerous challenges in terms of organ development. One of the biggest challenges is protecting premature lungs from injury.

Premature infants are at risk of developing chronic lung disease or bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). The long-term consequences of early interference with lung development are not completely understood and there are no specific treatments to prevent complications of extreme prematurity.

Dr. THEBAUD and his team are on the cutting edge of stem cell biology and using stem cells to repair damaged organs.  In recent years, investigators have captured the repair capabilities of a variety of stem cells in experimental models of BPD. While it is clear that further pre-clinical studies are needed, this webinar with Dr. THEBAUD will highlight the exciting potential for umbilical cord blood derived stem cell based therapies for the prevention or treatment of BPD and other complications.
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Dr. THEBAUD’s sucesses in this area of research are leading to promising results with patients; yet, challenges still remain. He will discuss this and more during our next Share the Science.
​Specialist in stem cell therapies for lung diseases, Dr. Thébaud is a senior scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a neonatologist with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he provides care to critically ill newborns.  He is also a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Thébaud obtained his medical degree at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France in 1991 and trained in pediatrics and neonatology at the University Paris V in Paris, France, where he also obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. before completing a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta.
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He received the “Rising Star in Perinatal Research” award from the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health in 2008, and the “Best in Current Canadian Child Health Research” Sanofi Pasteur Research Award in 2007. Dr. Thébaud currently holds the University of Ottawa Partnership Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine.
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We wish to thank Dr. THEBAUD for his time and Mediware for their continued support 
in bringing you the Share the Science series to you. 
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Save the Cord Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, was established to promote awareness of the life-saving benefits of cord blood based on u​nbiased and factual information. The Foundation educates parents, health professionals and the general public about the need to preserve this valuable medical resource while providing information on both public cord blood donation programs and private family cord blood banks worldwide. Learn more about our global community.

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