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Acknowledgments

I want to acknowledge the following individuals for their part in my successful transplant, and for their help in gathering information for this website:

• Dr. Paul F. Gores, MD, Director of Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
• Dr. Daniel H. Hayes, MD, Medical Director of the Transplant Center
• Dr. Lon Eskind, MD, Director of Liver Transplantation
• Dr. George Fragulidis, MD, Transplant Surgeon
• Dr. Vince Casingal, MD, Transplant Surgeon
• Dr. Joel E. Bruce, MD, Nephrologist, Southeast Renal Associates
• Dr. Henry Cremisi, MD, Nephrologist, Southeast Renal Associates
• Michelle Zebedis, BSN, Transplant Coordinator
• Diane Derkowski, RN, Transplant Coordinator
• Brenda Thrasher, RN, Transplant Coordinator
• Kate Hoagland, RN, Transplant Coordinator
• Grace Sauzier, RN, Clinical Research
• Jo-Ellen Wilder, ACSW, Social Worker

• Thanks to the entire Staff at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina.

John Biggers manages this website.
Thanks, Scott, for inspiration.

This site is dedicated to
Michael Jonas
August 11, 1982—January 13, 2000