Organs Donation

2010-03-1932:22English

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Good morning, everyone.
I'm Christopher Dawes.
I'm the president and CEO of Lucille Packard Children's Hospital,
and I'm truly honored to have a very distinguished guest here this morning.
Let me introduce, obviously, who we have.
I think it goes without introduction, our governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And to his left, Steve Jobs, CEO of Lucille.
Yeah, it would be nice.
CEO of Apple Computer.
He can have my job.
I don't think I want his.
Elaine Alquist, state senator.
And then continuing down, Brian Stewart,
president of the Donate to Life California.
And Ron Busatil, MD and PhD in transplant surgery
at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
and Chief Daschle Butler, who's the interim BART police chief and a former Berkeley police chief.
And he's awaiting a kidney transplant and has been waiting so since April of 2009.
So we are just delighted that everyone's here this morning for such an important occasion.
And also I want to introduce or at least acknowledge that we have some incredible guests right here in front of us.
We have in front in the first three or four rows children and families who have been recipients of transplantation here at Packard Children's Hospital.
And I really want to thank all of you for being here this morning and helping us push through this very, very important legislation.
I also want to make a very warm welcome to those of you who are here today because you have helped perform one or more of the transplants that these children have received.
You are members of a diverse and truly superb health care team
that has helped make Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
one of the safest, busiest, and most reliable centers for transplantation in the country.
Thanks to you.
And thank you.
I think that's really very important.
And thanks to you, this room is truly filled with a lot of talent,
a lot of dedication, and a lot to celebrate.
In nearly 20 years since Packard Children's first opened its doors,
we have grown to a hospital known, trusted for providing successful transplantation
to the very smallest and sickest children.
Our physicians and transplant teams, performed, many of whom are here today,
have performed the first successful heart and heart-lung transplants in children
and continue to advance these and other treatments through research and innovation.
Here at Packard, pioneers in transplantation make us one of the few places in the country
where patients can receive rare lung and double lung transplants
and where in the future providers can be trained to do so.
In pediatric kidney, liver, and intestinal transplant,
Packard Children's Doctors have led the way to improve procedures
such as transplanting adult kidneys into infants,
utilizing split liver donors and pioneering intestinal lengthening procedures
and performing successful transplant surgery on some of the very youngest of children.
Our pediatric liver transplant program is one of the largest and most experienced in the United States
and continues to provide some of the best outcomes.
In fact, across all transplantation specialties, our survival rates are among the best in the country.
So I'm truly honored to be here today with such an esteemed group of colleagues.
Also, at Packard Children's Hospital, we have an advanced cardiac clinic.
Our doctors are testing a new generation of drug treatments that may help avoid the need for a transplant in a child who has heart failure.
But these are just some of our efforts to try and improve the ability and the quality of life of children.
So Packard Children's accomplishments in pediatric transplantation are truly profound and life-engaging.
I know this just by looking at these wonderful kids in front of me today.
They are our inspiration and our motivation to drive transplantation further into the future
and to make it easier and more accessible and to continue advancing in research, education, and care delivery
so that all children can share the dream that all of us have.
and for those children to be able to live long and normal lives.
I know that our guests here today are inspired by that possibility,
so without further ado, I'd like to introduce the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you very much, Chris, for the nice introduction and for the great work you're doing,
and we want to thank you also and to Lucille Pack.
Children's Hospital for having us here today and hosting this press event
and for taking us around and visiting the children in there
and having us see firsthand all the great work that you're doing here.
And, of course, Lucille Packard is the top of the top.
Stanford is the top of the top.
It's always great to come back here and see all the great work that is going on.
So let's give them a big hand again here for the great work they're doing.
Thank you.
And then we want to thank also Steve Jobs, our CEO.
I like to take your job, by the way, and I also like to have your stocks.
So I just want to make sure that there's no confusion.
So anyway, but it's great to have Steve Jobs here, who I think was very instrumental in getting us here today
and to have us come up with this great bill that will change a lot here in California.
And he talked to my wife about his transplant, and then my wife talked to me about it,
and I talked to him about it, and we had these great phone conversations back and forth.
And now here it is reality.
We are introducing the bill.
And what I like about Steve is because he is a wealthy man, we all know that,
and that helped him get the transplant.
But he doesn't want that, that only wealthy people can get the transplant
and have a plane waiting to take him anywhere he needs to go.
He wants every human being, if you have no money at all,
or if you're the richest person in the world,
everyone ought to have the right to get immediately a transplant.
And this is why he has talked to my wife, and this is why he has talked to me,
and put the pressure on us to get this bill going so that we open it up
and have enough of the organs available for all the people that are potential recipients.
So we want to say let's give him a big, big hand for his work from our degree.
I want to also say thank you to Senator Alquist for being here today
and for sponsoring and authoring the bill, and for her great work always.
Whenever I need something, we call her.
So thank you very much.
Let's give her a big hand also.
Then we have Brian Stewart with the Donate Life California.
Let's give him also a big hand for being here today and for the great work he's doing.
Then Dr. Buzadil from the UCLA Medical Center.
He's one of the top doctors, if not the top in the world in transplants.
I happened to, again, exactly at the same time as we had started the conversation, Steve and I,
I sat next to him at the Christmas party that we had, and we had a casual conversation,
and we started talking about transplants, and then he was telling me about how alarming the rate is
of how many organs they need and the big problem that we have,
that one-third of the people are dying before they ever get the transplant
and all this kind of thing.
So, again, I wanted him to be here today and to say a few words also
because he has done such incredible job at UCLA and is such an expert.
So it's great to have you also here.
Thank you very much.
Big hand to Dr. Busheble.
And, I mean, what can I say about Chief Butler?
I mean, he's a tough law enforcement man, but no matter how tough you are when it comes to medical conditions,
I mean, he needs a transplant.
He's waiting for a transplant, and so that's why he's here to also say a few words about the need for transplant
and the need for everyone to register and to be part of this whole thing.
So let's give him also a big hand for being part of this.
So, like I said, it is wonderful to be here at the hospital,
and this hospital, of course, is healing and is saving so many lives.
Because of legislation that we're introducing today, Senate Bill 1395,

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Machine transcript in the original language. It may contain errors. Select a timestamp to play that moment.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Christopher Dawes.

I'm the president and CEO of Lucille Packard Children's Hospital,

and I'm truly honored to have a very distinguished guest here this morning.

Let me introduce, obviously, who we have.

I think it goes without introduction, our governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And to his left, Steve Jobs, CEO of Lucille.

Yeah, it would be nice.

CEO of Apple Computer.

He can have my job.

I don't think I want his.

Elaine Alquist, state senator.

And then continuing down, Brian Stewart,

president of the Donate to Life California.

And Ron Busatil, MD and PhD in transplant surgery

at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

and Chief Daschle Butler, who's the interim BART police chief and a former Berkeley police chief.

And he's awaiting a kidney transplant and has been waiting so since April of 2009.

So we are just delighted that everyone's here this morning for such an important occasion.

And also I want to introduce or at least acknowledge that we have some incredible guests right here in front of us.

We have in front in the first three or four rows children and families who have been recipients of transplantation here at Packard Children's Hospital.

And I really want to thank all of you for being here this morning and helping us push through this very, very important legislation.

I also want to make a very warm welcome to those of you who are here today because you have helped perform one or more of the transplants that these children have received.

You are members of a diverse and truly superb health care team

that has helped make Lucille Packard Children's Hospital

one of the safest, busiest, and most reliable centers for transplantation in the country.

Thanks to you.

And thank you.

I think that's really very important.

And thanks to you, this room is truly filled with a lot of talent,

a lot of dedication, and a lot to celebrate.

In nearly 20 years since Packard Children's first opened its doors,

we have grown to a hospital known, trusted for providing successful transplantation

to the very smallest and sickest children.

Our physicians and transplant teams, performed, many of whom are here today,

have performed the first successful heart and heart-lung transplants in children

and continue to advance these and other treatments through research and innovation.

Here at Packard, pioneers in transplantation make us one of the few places in the country

where patients can receive rare lung and double lung transplants

and where in the future providers can be trained to do so.

In pediatric kidney, liver, and intestinal transplant,

Packard Children's Doctors have led the way to improve procedures

such as transplanting adult kidneys into infants,

utilizing split liver donors and pioneering intestinal lengthening procedures

and performing successful transplant surgery on some of the very youngest of children.

Our pediatric liver transplant program is one of the largest and most experienced in the United States

and continues to provide some of the best outcomes.

In fact, across all transplantation specialties, our survival rates are among the best in the country.

So I'm truly honored to be here today with such an esteemed group of colleagues.

Also, at Packard Children's Hospital, we have an advanced cardiac clinic.

Our doctors are testing a new generation of drug treatments that may help avoid the need for a transplant in a child who has heart failure.

But these are just some of our efforts to try and improve the ability and the quality of life of children.

So Packard Children's accomplishments in pediatric transplantation are truly profound and life-engaging.

I know this just by looking at these wonderful kids in front of me today.

They are our inspiration and our motivation to drive transplantation further into the future

and to make it easier and more accessible and to continue advancing in research, education, and care delivery

so that all children can share the dream that all of us have.

and for those children to be able to live long and normal lives.

I know that our guests here today are inspired by that possibility,

so without further ado, I'd like to introduce the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Thank you very much.

Well, thank you very much, Chris, for the nice introduction and for the great work you're doing,

and we want to thank you also and to Lucille Pack.

Children's Hospital for having us here today and hosting this press event

and for taking us around and visiting the children in there

and having us see firsthand all the great work that you're doing here.

And, of course, Lucille Packard is the top of the top.

Stanford is the top of the top.

It's always great to come back here and see all the great work that is going on.

So let's give them a big hand again here for the great work they're doing.

Thank you.

And then we want to thank also Steve Jobs, our CEO.

I like to take your job, by the way, and I also like to have your stocks.

So I just want to make sure that there's no confusion.

So anyway, but it's great to have Steve Jobs here, who I think was very instrumental in getting us here today

and to have us come up with this great bill that will change a lot here in California.

And he talked to my wife about his transplant, and then my wife talked to me about it,

and I talked to him about it, and we had these great phone conversations back and forth.

And now here it is reality.

We are introducing the bill.

And what I like about Steve is because he is a wealthy man, we all know that,

and that helped him get the transplant.

But he doesn't want that, that only wealthy people can get the transplant

and have a plane waiting to take him anywhere he needs to go.

He wants every human being, if you have no money at all,

or if you're the richest person in the world,

everyone ought to have the right to get immediately a transplant.

And this is why he has talked to my wife, and this is why he has talked to me,

and put the pressure on us to get this bill going so that we open it up

and have enough of the organs available for all the people that are potential recipients.

So we want to say let's give him a big, big hand for his work from our degree.

I want to also say thank you to Senator Alquist for being here today

and for sponsoring and authoring the bill, and for her great work always.

Whenever I need something, we call her.

So thank you very much.

Let's give her a big hand also.

Then we have Brian Stewart with the Donate Life California.

Let's give him also a big hand for being here today and for the great work he's doing.

Then Dr. Buzadil from the UCLA Medical Center.

He's one of the top doctors, if not the top in the world in transplants.

I happened to, again, exactly at the same time as we had started the conversation, Steve and I,

I sat next to him at the Christmas party that we had, and we had a casual conversation,

and we started talking about transplants, and then he was telling me about how alarming the rate is

of how many organs they need and the big problem that we have,

that one-third of the people are dying before they ever get the transplant

and all this kind of thing.

So, again, I wanted him to be here today and to say a few words also

because he has done such incredible job at UCLA and is such an expert.

So it's great to have you also here.

Thank you very much.

Big hand to Dr. Busheble.

And, I mean, what can I say about Chief Butler?

I mean, he's a tough law enforcement man, but no matter how tough you are when it comes to medical conditions,

I mean, he needs a transplant.

He's waiting for a transplant, and so that's why he's here to also say a few words about the need for transplant

and the need for everyone to register and to be part of this whole thing.

So let's give him also a big hand for being part of this.

So, like I said, it is wonderful to be here at the hospital,

and this hospital, of course, is healing and is saving so many lives.

Because of legislation that we're introducing today, Senate Bill 1395,