2007-10-18
September 18, 2007 (CENTENNIAL, CO) – AlloSource, the second largest non-profit tissue bank and the largest supplier of fresh cartilage allografts and skin used for life-saving burn applications in the nation, announced today that it has been recognized as one of the state’s “Champions in Health Care”- an award issued by the Denver Business Journal to acknowledge outstanding professionals within the health care industry. The company and two of its Board Members, Ross M. Wilkins, M.D. and Susan Dunn, were praised for their outstanding contributions to the community.
As Medical Director and Chair of the Medical Advisory Board at Allosource, Ross M. Wilkins, M.D. of Colorado Limb Consultants received the highest honor as “2007 Lifetime Champion in Health Care”. Dr. Wilkins is an innovative researcher in the field of bone cancer and bone injuries and is the country’s leading limb preservation surgeon. Partnering with AlloSource, Dr. Wilkins is able to save hundreds of patients a year from becoming amputees, through allograft transplant surgery.
Susan Dunn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Donor Alliance and a member of the AlloSource Board of Directors earned the distinction as “Nurse Champion Finalist”. With over 18 years of experience with Donor Alliance, Ms. Dunn has been instrumental in boosting the consent rates for donation and increasing the number of organ transplants in Colorado.
AlloSource was recognized as a finalist in the “Innovator Champion” category. Honoring the gift of donation, the company responsibly develops, processes and distributes life-saving and life-enhancing tissue for its communities. Every day, AlloSource provides tissue for life-saving and life-enhancing surgeries such as bone grafts, cornea transplants and burn skin surgery used to treat and heal severely burned patients nationwide.
“On behalf of the entire AlloSource team, I would like to applaud our employees and Board Members,” said Thomas Cycyota, AlloSource President and CEO. “We are fortunate to have so many extraordinary individuals on our team who continuously work to improve the health of our community.”
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About AlloSource
Founded in 1994, Centennial, Colorado based AlloSource continues to increase the availability of high quality, safe allografts. Showing respectful appreciation for the gift of donation, AlloSource saves and improves lives by maintaining the highest standards in recovery, processing and storage of human tissue while striving to develop new therapeutic technologies. AlloSource provides service to the country’s most reputable non-profit organ procurement organizations that have direct input and oversight into the company’s business operations. AlloSource is accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks and operates three facilities in Centennial, Salt Lake City and Cincinnati. For more information, visit www.allosource.org.