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Australian education for health professionals - Organ and Tissue Donation
PriMed - Organ and tissue donation  Australian education for professionals for CME points

Australian community groups
The David Hookes Foundation
Given in Faith and Trust of South Australia Inc  (GIFT) – Donor Family Support

Australian organizations
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society  
Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Australia's link to global network of donor registries of unrelated donors
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
DonateLife  Australian Government Initiative
Eye and tissue banks in Australia 
Medicare Australia
National Health & Medical Research Council
Organ Donors Association Inc 
Sharelife Australia  
Transplant Australia  
Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation 

Australian state based transplantation groups
ACT Organ and Tissue Donation
DonateWest
Heart Kids Victoria
LifeGift – Victorian Organ Donation Service
LifeLink – Organ Donation Network NSW/ACT
DonateLife NT
Queenslanders Donate
Renal Resource Centre Sydney NSW

Australian transplant professional organizations 
ANZSN  Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
Australian Transplant Co-ordinators Association
Renal Society of Australasia   
Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc        
Transplant Nurses

Organ donation education links
Get the Facts  USA website
Kidney Transplant  Virtual Renal Centre WA - 3D animation on kidney transplantation
Kids Kare  Provides information on organ donation and organ transplants USA
Kidney Transplantation in children  GOSH UK website Also in Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Turkish
The interactive Body: Organs and tissues for transplant  3D human organs and tissues
Play with Transplant Man   Renal Support Network USA

Renal Registries Global
ANZDATA  Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry
ANZOD  Australian and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry
Austrian Registry 
Belgian Registry 
Brazilian Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Registry 
Canadian Registry
Dutch Renal Registry (in Dutch)
European Renal Registry
European Dialysis and Transplant Association Registry  (ERA-EDTA)
Eurotransplant  
Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases
Italian Registry  
Malaysian Registry 
Netherlands Registry 
Norwegian Registry
Renal Association 
Scottish Renal Registry  
Spanish Registry   
Swedish Dialysis Database 
UK Transplant
UK Renal Registry 
United States Renal Data System 
Valencia Registry

International transplant groups
Association of ORGAN Procurement Organization 
American Society for Artificial Organs (ASAIO)  
British Transplant Society
LifeSource 
Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation Educational (ERA-EDTA)
NHS UK Transplant   
North American Transplant Coordinators Organisation (NATCO)
Organ Donation New Zealand 
Renal - National Services Framework  UK  
Share Your Life USA
Transplant Recipients International Organisation 
Transplant UK   

Organ Donation Fact Sheets
Could I be a Living Donor  TansplantUK
Deciding about live donation  Kidney Health Australia
Kidney donation by live donors  NSW Health
Kidney Transplantation  Kidney Health Australia
Life with a single kidney  Kidney Health Australia
Live Donation  Kidney Health Australia
Making a decision about living and organ and tissue donation derived from "Living Organ and Tissue Donation: Guidelines for Ethical Practice for Health Professionals" NHMRC
Organ and tissue donation, and transplantation  Kidney Health Australia
Organ Donation  NSW Health Multilingual Fact Sheets - Also in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Italian, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Transplant Australia FAQ  

Standards for treatment of chronic kidney disease
US National Kidney Foundation - DOQI guidelines
RA Standards Document - 3rd Edition

Transplant allocation protocols
Organ allocation protocols for kidneys in Australia   TSANZ - How the system works for allocation of kidneys

Transplant Community Consumer Groups
Australian Transplant Cricket Club
Australian Transplant Games   

Other Events of interest  
-   7th World Winter Transplant Games 2010 17-24 January 2010
    Sainte Foy Tarentaise, France (Ski resort in French Alps, between Grenoble in France & Geneva, Switzerland
-   18th World Transplant Games - Goteborg Sweden  18-25 June 2011
-   17th World Transplant Games  **  Australia, Gold Coast QLD August 2009 see photos