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MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Media contact: Angela Poon, Canadian Blood Services
604-707-3469 (office)
604-787-3247 (cell)
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Eileen Lao, S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
604-408-7243 (office)
778-997-8283 (cell)
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S.U.C.C.E.S.S. launches blood partnership
Vancouver-based service agency S.U.C.C.E.S.S. is partnering with Canadian Blood Services and the OneMatch Stem Cell & Marrow Network to remind British Columbians of the ongoing need for blood and stem cell donations from ethnically diverse donors during Canada’s National Stem Cell Awareness Week, Nov. 16-21.
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. will be officially announcing their membership in Canadian Blood Services’ corporate giving program, Partners for Life, as well as hosting a blood drive with employees on Monday, Nov. 16, in honour of the awareness week’s 2009 theme “Partners Uniting Lives.”
| WHAT: |
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. CEO Tung Chan will be officially signing the agency as a member of Canadian Blood Services’ Partners for Life blood donor program, as well as donating blood himself. A number of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. employees will also be donating blood.
OneMatch Patient and Transplant Liaison Specialist Kim Tomasson will also be signing blood donors to the OneMatch registry by collecting DNA samples with a buccal swab, a long Q-tip-like object that collects cells from inside the cheek.
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| WHO: |
Tung Chan, CEO, S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Ed Yee, Regional Director of Donor & Clinic Services, B.C. & Yukon Region, Canadian Blood Services
Dr. John Shepherd, B.C. Cancer Agency
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. employees |
| WHEN: |
Monday, Nov. 16, 12 p.m. (Tung Chan will begin the donation process at approx. 12:15 p.m.) |
| WHERE: |
Canadian Blood Services, 4750 Oak Street, Vancouver (next to B.C. Children's Hospital) |
| WHY: |
Blood donations and stem cell donations are needed for those suffering from cancer and rare blood disorders. |
| ABOUT US: |
Canadian Blood Services is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization that manages the blood supply in all provinces and territories outside of Quebec and oversees the country's OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.blood.ca/. |
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