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He is Associate Chair of the Dept of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Choose from 2 days Friday, 7 pm Aug. 7, 2009 or Saturday, 10 am Aug. 15, 2009 Toho No Hikari Auditorium (Formerly M0A) 3510 Nuuanu Pali Dr.

(Entrance to Old Pali Rd.) Registration Required at FtealingAndYou.com (map on website) or call 628-8784 The 1 Simple Mistake That Keeps People Sick On ileds Sample of topics to be covered: The Alarming New 4th Leading Cause of Death You Need to Know How to lose weight by eating MORE Beat diabetes with less meds 7 ways to lower cholesterol naturally Control blood pressure safely with less meds A surprising remedy for headaches, backaches, arthritis, fibromyalgia Starling cause of half of bankruptcies Natural remedy for heartburn (GERD) your questions answered BY HELEN ALTON haltonnstarbulletin.com JEANETTE CHONG was on kidney dialysis in her late 20s when Dr. Livingston Wong talked to her about a possible organ transplant. That was 38 years ago. The Pacific Heights woman is the longest-living recipient of a kidney transplant from a deceased donor in the United States, according to "Clinical Transplants 2008" by Dr. Paul Terasaki, UCLA medical professor emeritus and pioneer in tissue transfer research.

Chong said she was the fifth patient on dialysis at the former St. Francis Medical Center, now Hawaii Medical Center-East. A childhood infection had developed antibodies attacking her kidney. WONG was just beginning an organ transplant program in Hawaii with three other doctors, Arnold Siemsen, Herbert Chinn and Young K. Paik.

"We were selecting patients on dialysis, young ones, and asked if they were interested in taking a chance on a transplant," Wong recalled. He said Hawaii's organ transplantation program evolved because of "patients like Jeanette who took a chance. She didn't know me from Adam, whether to trust nie or not." The first successful kidney transplants, both from living and deceased donors, were done in 1054 and 1962 by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital, Boston.

Wong was in residency training then at Massachusetts General Hospital. After returning home in 1966 to practice medicine, Wong said Chinn and others asked whether he would be interested in doing kidney transplants since he had trained with pioneers in the field. Sister Maureen Keleher, administrator of St. Francis Medical Center, was enthused about the idea and gave him an animal laboratory to work in, he said. He met Hume at a transplant meeting in New York, and Hume joined Wong's team to perform the first three kidney transplants here on Aug.

10, 1969. Wong said he missed his youngest son's birth on Aug. 8 to pick up Hume at the airport. Terasaki at UCLA had invented a tissue-typing test for transplants and helped the Hawaii group until Young Paik started a Hawaii tissue-typing lab at the end of 1970. "Nobody paid for the first 10 to 15 transplants," Wong said.

"The insurance carrier said it was investigational, so doctors and the hospital did it for free. They were afraid we would open a big can of worms, ami nobody knew how good we were and if we'd be here in a year or two." Wong said he took the first 16 patients on dialysis 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROGRAM TO BE CELEBRATED Dr. Livingston Wong and transplant recipients will be honored at a celebration of the Hawaii transplant program's 40th anniversary from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Pacific Club. About 1,356 transplants have been performed since the first three on Aug.

10, 1969 46 for heart, 157 liver, 1,123 kidney, 30 pancreas. The Transplant Institute of the Pacific at Hawaii Medical Center-East (formerly St. Francis Medical Center) has three medical directors, seven surgeons, 12 full-and part-time staff members and ancillary staff of dietitians and pharmacists. About 387 patients are waiting for an organ transplant, according to the Organ Donor Center of Hawaii. 1-1 Imi i 1 1 'I i r.

1 I jfipow Hawaii Health Foundation For more info go to drshintani.com li Source: Transplant Institute of the Pacific.