Dr. Laura A. Siminoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Public Health and served as the founding dean of the Temple University College of Public Health from 2014 -2022. She is an internationally recognized leader in health communication, especially in the field of health care decision making, development of decision tools and qualitative and multi-method research tools. She has conducted seminal research in organ and tissue donation communication and decision making that has impacted national policy. Dr. Siminoff has received numerous awards and honors, published over 200 articles and book chapters, and has been awarded over $43 million dollars in research funding from NIH, HRSA and the Department of Defense.
This webinar will highlight the impact of referral timing and assessing family readiness to make a donation decision. We will review the donation conversation in relation to evidence-based research. Experiential-based practices will be compared and contrasted to prompt group discussion in examining what OPOs have learned from research, where improvements can be made and where more research can offer benefit to both potential donor families and recipients. Ways of implementing evidence-based and standards of practice into organizational processes will be discussed along with how OPOs and hospital staff may best work together to support mutually familiar and understood standards of practice to assure every potential donor family has the opportunity to make a timely and fully informed donation decision.