DRISCOLL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND
COASTAL BEND KIDNEY FOUNDATION HOST
SOUTH TEXAS TRANSPLANT SYMPOSIUM

Education Service Center
209 Water Street • Corpus Christi, Tx
Saturday, March 29, 2008

(Corpus Christi, TX) Driscoll Children’s Hospital and the Coastal Bend Kidney Foundation are proud to present the South Texas Transplant Symposium on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at the Education Service Center at 209 Water Street. The program is designed for registered nurses, community physicians, pediatricians, nephrologists, and transplant coordinators in the field caring for patients with renal dysfunction and/or an organ transplant. Registration fee is $50.00. Invited speakers from McAllen Medical Center, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Southwest Transplant Alliance, and Driscoll Children’s Hospital will be presenting.

For registration information, please call (361) 694-4117. On site registration will be available beginning at 7:00 a.m. on March 29, and forms are available online at www.driscollchildrens.org/cme.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

www.driscollchildrens.org

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