We listen to the people this work is for, share their questions and answer them openly.
Today we are opening Advocacy Voices & Field Notes, a place for patient and care partner perspectives on transplantation, oxygen delivery and organ sustainability.
People waiting for an organ, people living with a transplant and the families supporting them bring experience that research teams need to hear. They can tell us what is difficult to understand, what matters in daily life and which questions still need an answer.
Beginning with Jeff Parke
Cold Ischemia Foundation
Jeff Parke, its founder and executive director, brings personal experience of kidney transplantation and a background in clinical research. His Foundation has published a BHOC introduction and BHOC Field Notes.
We introduce his work and link to the original pages. His voice remains independent, including when he questions our assumptions or asks for better evidence.
Questions should help shape the work
What would you like to know about oxygen delivery? What would make a new approach meaningful to you? What is missing from the way we explain our work?
We welcome questions, disagreements and suggestions. They help us make the information clearer and identify the questions that need further investigation.
Independent essays, published research and BHOC development aims have different roles. The new section presents voices and questions; our Evidence pages remain the place for scientific sources and their limitations.
Banner and portrait: Cold Ischemia Foundation, displayed from its original website.