Mount Baker Foundation (MBF) will host a living kidney donation forum at the Squalicum Boathouse from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, September 10.
Kidney donors and recipients will speak on their experiences and transplant experts will provide additional information and answer questions, according to a MBF press release. Lunch will be provided.
Dr. William Lombard, a retired nephrologist on the forum panel, has a goal to end the kidney transplant waiting list in Whatcom County. Lombard said in the release that live kidney donation is more cost-effective than deceased donor organ transplantation and dialysis.
“If we can increase our rate of living kidney donation we will decrease our reliance on dialysis, which is the most expensive and high-risk form of kidney replacement therapy,” he wrote in a statement.
Dialysis social worker Angela Krzysiek said in the release that it was important to spread education on the live kidney donations as diabetes is now an epidemic and the top cause of kidney disease.
To register, email Maria Macpherson at maria@mtbakerfoundation.org or sign up online.
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