sort of off-topic.......
Tuesday February 15, 12:16 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Medscape.com Launches 30th New Medical Specialty
Area With Debut of Transplantation Site
Medscape Transplantation Includes Remarkable Array of Content and Features, Including
Launch of Internet's First Transplantation CME Resource for Non-Transplant Medical
Professionals
NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--February 15, 2000-- Medscape.com, www.medscape.com, the leading provider of
authoritative health and medical information on the Internet since 1995, said today it has launched Medscape Transplantation,
transplantation.medscape.com, a new specialty site with a remarkable array of content and features, including the nation's
first Internet-based continuing medical education (CME) program on organ donation for healthcare professionals and the
general public sponsored jointly with Tufts University School of Medicine and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Advising Medscape Transplantation is a new Editorial Board of 15 distinguished leaders in solid organ transplantation, including
both the Presidents and Presidents-Elect of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of
Transplantation, as well as the President of the International Liver Transplantation Society.
This new Transplantation site is one of 30 different medical information sites - a number of them launched within the past year
-- now found on Medscape.com, operated by Medscape, Inc. (NASDAQ NM:MSCP - news). They range from Cardiology
to Women's Health and include special sites for medical office managers, nurses, pharmacists and medical students, as well as
for Medscape's Japanese-language operations and Medscape General Medicine, the pioneering online peer-reviewed general
medical journal. A visit to the new Transplantation site reveals Medscape's renowned content and features designed to keep
the transplant surgery community up to date, such as Conference Summaries and Reports, Clinical Management, Ask the
Experts Service, Exam Room and Journal Room, as well as access to MEDLINE, AIDSLINE and other databases.
Prominently featured on the Medscape Transplantation home page is ''Donation and Transplantation: Into the New
Millennium,'' the new CME program adapted from a teleconference presentation developed jointly by Tufts and UNOS. It
gives non-transplant caregivers information and resources for understanding the severe organ shortage and how the U.S. organ
transplant system operates. The program is designed to increase overall awareness and education about organ donation and
transplantation among health professionals involved in advising patients about important medical decisions, and to boost public
awareness about the issues surrounding organ donation. Also available on Medscape.com's Internal Medicine, Primary Care,
Neurology and Surgery specialty sites, the program is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche
Laboratories, Inc.
''There is a critical need among physicians, allied health professionals and consumers to learn more about the latest advances in
transplantation, and to seek solutions to the challenge of finding suitable organ donors,'' said Medscape Editor in Chief George
D. Lundberg, MD. ''With transplantation, thousands of lives are at stake at any given time. We hope that the launch of our new
specialty site, as well as our affiliation with Tufts and UNOS, will add much to the practice of medicine as it relates to
transplantation and organ donation.''
Heading up Medscape Transplantation is Site Editor Susan L. Smith, RN, PhD, formerly Clinical Nurse Specialist for Liver
Transplantation at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, as well as an
international leader in transplantation nursing. Smith is assisted by an editorial staff and guided by the newly appointed Editorial
Board with specific medical expertise in the field. Members of the Board are:
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, and
President-Elect, American Society of Transplant Surgeons;
Ronald Busuttil, MD, PhD, Dumont Professor and Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, UCLA School
of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, and President, American Society of Transplant Surgeons;
Mark Fox, MD, PhD, Associate in Medical Humanities and Resident in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Strong
Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, and Senior Scholar, Clinical Ethics Center, St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville,
Tennessee;
John J. Fung, MD, PhD, Thomas Starzl Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl
Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, and President, International Liver Transplantation Society;
Antonio M. Gotto, MD, Dphil, Dean, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York;
Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology and Immunology, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada;
John R. Lake, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director, Liver Transplantation Program, Fairview University
Medical Center, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, and President, American Society of
Transplantation;
Sue V. McDiarmid, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery, UCLA and Director of Pediatric Hepatology,
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;
Peter J. Morris, FRS, FRCS, Nuffield Professor and Chairman of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
Kingdom;
John F. Neylan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Renal Transplantation, Emory University School of
Medicine, Atlanta;
Kevin O'Connor, MS, PA, CPTC, Director, Donation Services, New England Organ Bank, Newton, Massachusetts;
Linda Ohler, RN, MN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Transplant Research Unit, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland, and Editor, Journal of Transplant Coordination;
Mohamed Sayegh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University; Director of
Research Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and
President-Elect, American Society of Transplantation;
David R. Sutherland, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Director, Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation,
Head, Division of Transplantation, Fairview University Medical Center, University of Minnesota School of Medicine,
Minneapolis; and
Laurence Turka, MD, C. Mahlan Klein Professor of Medicine, Chief, Renal Division, University of Pennsylvania Health
System, Philadelphia.
Medscape's overarching Editorial Board of 20 of the world's leading physicians and medical professionals also includes
Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, a pioneer and leader in the fields of transplantation immunology and surgery, and the physician
who performed the world's first human liver transplant in 1963.
ABOUT MEDSCAPE, INC.
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Internet since 1995, currently operates two primary healthcare Web sites. Medscape.com, www.medscape.com, provides
comprehensive, authoritative and timely medical information and interactive programs to physicians, allied healthcare
professionals and consumers, and includes the following specialty sites and pages: Medscape Japan,
japan.medscape.com, Medscape General Medicine, or MedGenMed, www.medscape.com/journal/MedGenMed,
believed to be the first and only peer-reviewed online general medical journal; Medical Office Management,
medoffice.medscape.com, Medscape Nursing, nursing.medscape.com; Medscape Pharmacology,
pharmacotherapy.medscape.com, for pharmacists; Medscape Med Students, medstudents.medscape.com; and
Today on Medscape, medscape.com, featuring the latest health and medical news. As of December 31,
1999, Medscape.com had more than 1.7 million registered members worldwide, including over 280,000 registered as
physicians, 860,000 registered as allied health professionals and 630,000 registered as consumers worldwide.
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designed to help families and individuals make better informed healthcare decisions and to simplify management of their
healthcare needs. Developed jointly with CBS Corporation, the site provides personalized, authoritative medical content written
for the consumer, access to professional content on Medscape.com and interactive personal health management tools, such as
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