The Health Chatter team chats with Susan Mau Larson and Nichole Salaam from LifeSource about organ donation.Susan Mau Larson, the Chief Administrative Officer at LifeSource, has an extensive career advancing organ donation and supporting families. Susan positions LifeSource for continued growth and success by driving fulfillment of the long-term vision and strategic priorities ensuring effective internal and external communications, working with our state and federal officials, and leading key strategic initiatives.Nichole Salaam, the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at LifeSource, works to identify and drive strategies to eliminate systemic organizational marginalization and promote equity and inclusion practices. Nichole believes centering the work of donation through the lens of equity and inclusion will help position LifeSource as a specialized leader in the field of organ procurement to best serve all communities.Listen along as Susan and Nichole share their knowledge and outline the importance of organ donation.More about LifeSource's great work can be found at https://www.life-source.org/Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on organ donation, which should be really, really quite interesting. Organ donation has a long history and hopefully has some very, very positive implications. So we've got two great guests with us. We'll get to them in a moment. We've got a great crew that always keeps us hopping with great research.
We have three researchers, Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, And also, Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan does marketing and research for us and is actually recording today's show. So thank you to them. Matthew Campbell is our production manager that gets the shows out to you, the listening audience. So this is a crew second to none.
Also on today's show is Dr. Barry Baines, our medical advisor. Welcome, Barry. And of course, there's Clarence Jones, my co-host for the show. He and I are great colleagues, and we're really appreciating all the chats that we do with all of our great guests over, goodness, it's almost over two years now. Human Partnership is our sponsor for these shows.
They are a community health organization, does wonderful things in the community around various issues related to health. Check them out, humanpartnership.org. You can check us out. at healthchatterpodcast.com. I'm Stan Shandling, the other co-host for the show, and I thank you all for being with us today. Clarence, take it away.
Hello, everybody. This is Clarence Jones, and I am excited to talk about the show today. We're going to be talking about organ and tissue donation. And we have two wonderful guests, Ms. Susan Mao Larson. I'm just going to give a high level introduction to them because they're going to talk a lot about themselves and about their work. And I just want to quickly get to that.
Susan has both a undergrad and a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. She is the Chief Administrative Office for the organization LifeSource, which is the organization in the Upper Midwest. And then we have Ms. Nicole Salaam, who is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at LifeSource.
And that's kind of the high-level piece that they're going to share more about themselves throughout the program. I've had the honor of working with LifeSource for more than, and I always joke about this, two centuries. I've known them in the 20th and 21st century, but they are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best community organizations that I've worked with.
And so we are honored that we are able to talk about this very, very important topic. And so with that, Stan, I'm going to let you go ahead with the first question, because this is a topic that I think that all of our partners are really, really interested in participating in.
Thanks, Clarence. So first and foremost, either Nicole or Susan, either one of you chime in. Why don't you tell us a little bit about LifeSource to start with?
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