NBA World Champion Alonzo Mourning Discusses Life After Kidney Transplant at World Transplant Congress 2006 July 23 in Boston

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Event: NBA world champion, Alonzo Mourning, discusses life after kidney transplant at World Transplant Congress 2006, in Boston, Mass. Time: Sunday, July 23, at 5:30 p.m. EDT (sharp)

Place: John B. Hynes Convention Center, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 900 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Details: NBA World Champion, Alonzo Mourning, will discuss his personal battle with kidney disease at the World Transplant Congress in Boston. After winning a gold medal in basketball as a member of the U.S. team at the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, Mourning was diagnosed with focal glomerulosclerosis, a rare kidney disease. Since undergoing a successful kidney transplant in 2003, Mourning has been a man on mission to raise awareness and funds for kidney disease. He has personally lead a campaign to raise $4 million to aid in the research, education and financial relief to patients who can not afford medication and has named the foundation Zo's Fund for Life -- http://www.zosfundforlife.org.

About: More than 6,000 worldwide delegates are attending the World Transplant Congress 2006 (WTC), the first international joint-organizational transplant conference, focusing on the latest and most important topics in the field of transplantation medicine. This premiere conference will be held July 22-27 at the Hynes Convention Center.

The goal of this joint meeting, sponsored by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), the American Society of Transplantation (AST), and The Transplantation Society (TTS) is to expand and share new worldwide research and discoveries in the field. Sessions scheduled for WTC will educate, inform and create an arena to exchange new scientific and clinical information, and support an interchange of ideas focusing on transplantation care and management issues. Visit http://www.wtc2006.org for a complete meeting schedule, key speakers, information, and meeting times.

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