Susan Waddingham ~ Semper Fi & America's Fund on Brain Donation
- S1E3
- 25:52
- August 26th 2024
The importance of talking to your loved ones about your wishes prior to passing is often a tough conversation but a necessary one.
Tish is joined today by Suzanne Waddingham, a registered nurse with the Semper Fi & America's Fund Visiting Nurse Program, to discuss brain donation. Suzanne works with service members and their long term medical case management to help them to navigate the medical systems they're dealing with and reduce the barriers to care. As part of that care Suzanne talks about continuing the mission of serving through brain donation to help with research for those struggling with TBI and head injuries.
To learn more about the Visiting Nurse Program visit their website at https://thefund.org/our-programs/service-member-family-support-program/visiting-nurse-program/
Learn more about pre-registering at the Brain Donor Project
https://braindonorproject.org/
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Brain Donor Project
Hosted by Tish Hevel, the Brain Donor Project exist to increase brain donation to advance science, leading to the treatment and cure of neurological, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. We’re here to increase awareness for and simplify the process of brain donation.
Founder and CEO, The Brain Donor Project
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Tish Hevel is the Founder/CEO of The Brain Donor Project, a unique nonprofit that exclusively supports the brain banks of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NeuroBioBank. The Brain Donor Project was established in late 2016 to raise awareness of the critical need for donated brain tissue to advance the science of brain disease and to simplify the process of becoming a brain donor. To date, nearly 18,000 people have taken steps to become a brain donor. They represent more than 200 categories of brain disease, and almost half have healthy (or control) brains. The Brain Donor Project was inspired by the death of Hevel's dad, Gene, who died from Lewy Bodies Dementia and was a brain donor himself.