WCTF Hosts Fundraising and Awareness Dinner
JULY 17, 2010: FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
WCTF HOSTS
FUNDRAISING AND AWARENESS DINNER HONORING VISITING
DOCTORS FROM ARMENIA
-Event to welcome and honor
Dr. Gegham Poghosyan and Dr. Davit Dallakyan-
LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 17,
2010 /WCTF/ — The World Children’s Transplant Fund
(WCTF) is hosting a dinner to welcome and honor Dr.
Gegham Poghosyan and Dr. Davit Dallakyan, who are
visiting from Armenia for six months of training in
pediatric liver transplantation at USC University
Hospital and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital.
The dinner event will be held
August 11, 2010 in the Rococo Room of Cafe Santorini
in Pasadena at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $65.00. RSVP is
requested by August 6, 2010.
WCTF is providing funding for
Dr. Poghosyan and Dr. Dallakyan to receive the
specialized transplant training, the goal which is
to educate the visiting doctors on pediatric organ
transplantation and management of transplant
candidates and recipients.
“It is very gratifying to be
part of an authentic partnership between the USC
University Hospital and the World Children’s
Transplant Fund,” said Valerie McCaffrey,
chairperson of WCTF’s Armenia Committee. “The
training these doctors will receive is the cutting
edge for pediatric transplantation, and is not
available in Armenia.”
The USC training, which will
be headed by Dr. Linda Sher and Dr. Yuri Genyk, will
consist of academic and observational study. Once
the training is complete, the doctors will return to
Sourb Astvatsamayr Medical Center, where they will
continue their medical careers and further WCTF’s
mission of pediatric organ transplantation.
“We are enormously grateful
that Doctors Linda Sher and Yuri Genyk, and their
world-class transplant team, are willing to expend
the time and effort in teaching the latest
advancements in pediatric organ transplantation to
eager visiting surgeons who will invest six months
of their time into the partnership,” said McCaffrey.
WCTF is providing the doctors
with a living stipend and reimbursement for expenses
incidental to their stay. WCTF also is providing
medical insurance for each doctor, and a shared
apartment. While receiving their training, the
doctors will remain employees of Sourb Astvatsamayr
Medical Center in Armenia.
“The return on this
investment is a human one, one that will be
reflected in the healthy lives of Armenia’s children
who will benefit from the new-found skills of the
returning transplant surgeons,” said McCaffrey. “The
spinoff of this project will be felt for many years
in Armenia’s pediatric medical community and the
children served by it.”
Poghosyan and Dallakyan are
licensed, practicing surgeons at Sourb Astvatsamayr
Medical Center. Poghoyan graduated from Yerevan
State Medical University in 1997. After
post-doctoral training in Moscow, he joined Sourb
Astvatsamayr as a surgeon in 2007. Dallakyan
graduated from Yerevan State Medical University in
2006. After his residency in Pediatric Surgery at
Sourb Astvatsamayr, he joined the medical center as
a staff pediatric surgeon. Both men have been
selected by the Medial Center and WCTF as highly
talented, dedicated individuals. They are both
fluent in English.
For additional background on
the partnership between USC and WCTF, in addition to
information about the ongoing transplant needs in
Armenia, please see:
http://wctf.org/news/2010/06/wctf-partners-with-usc-to-train-doctors/
Source: World Children’s
Transplant Fund
CONTACT:
For information about the
Armenian doctors, the dinner event, and related
info: Valerie McCaffrey – Armenia Chair. Phone:
(818)785-1886
Web Site:
http://www.WCTF.org/
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