WSU School of Medicine and the International Association for Organ Donation will present the fourth annual World Summit on Organ Donation April 19 and 20, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Dearborn, Mich. WSU School of Medicine Dean Robert M. Mentzer, Jr., will serve as keynote speaker.

The summit will bring together top minds in the the world community of organ donation and transplantation to address the major challenges the field faces, with a particular concentration on the lack of organs worldwide and the issues that stem from the shortage.

As the waitlist for those in need of organ donation grows, so too must the donor registry to accommodate the need. Countries are becoming more creative with ways of dealing with this problem, employing such means as donor-matching donor websites.

For more information on the event, please visit www.iaod.org/events.