A Flexible Computer System for Renal Transplant Information

SummaryRenal transplantation is a life-sustaining treatment for a person whose kidneys cease to function. The duration of graft and patient survival time is extremely variable from patient to patient. A subset of the potential risk factors has been selected for study at the University of Minnesota, where 2,247 renal transplants were performed between January 1, 1968 and December 31, 1985.A computer system for storing and analyzing these risk factors has been successfully implemented at the University of Minnesota. Its design facilitates fast turnaround time, flexibility and timeliness of information. Further, routine operations require a minimum of clinician involvement. A part-time data abstractor collects and updates the information. A full-time biometrician manages and analyzes the data.The renal transplant computer system was implemented in 1976. The system produces reports, generates matched pair control groups and calculates frequencies, crosstabulations and life tables. It is capable of handling clinical trials as well as retrospective studies.

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INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS FOR URETERAL STRICTURE AFTER PEDIATRIC RENAL TRANSPLANT: THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXPERIENCE

The Journal of Urology ◽

10.1016/s0022-5347(08)61206-9 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 179 (4S) ◽

pp. 412-412

Author(s):

Andrew P Windsperger ◽

Ken Smith ◽

Abhinav Humar ◽

Clifford Kashtan ◽

Aseem R Shukla

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Renal Transplant ◽

Ureteral Stricture ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Pediatric Renal Transplant ◽

The University

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BK virus replication in renal transplant recipients: Analysis of potential risk factors may contribute in reactivation

Journal of Clinical Virology ◽

10.1016/j.jcv.2017.09.004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 96 ◽

pp. 7-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Mohammad Shenagari ◽

Ali Monfared ◽

Hadise Eghtedari ◽

Aydin Pourkazemi ◽

Tolou Hasandokht ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Renal Transplant ◽

Virus Replication ◽

Potential Risk ◽

Bk Virus ◽

Renal Transplant Recipients ◽

Transplant Recipients ◽

Potential Risk Factors

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Conversion

The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479802180.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-79

Author(s):

Donna T. Haverty-Stacke

Keyword(s):

Department Of Education ◽

Red Scare ◽

Full Time ◽

Socialist Society ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Rehabilitation Counselor ◽

New City ◽

The University ◽

First Job ◽

The Church

Chapter 2 examines Grace’s undergraduate years at the College of Saint Catherine during the mid–late1920s and then her gradual conversion to socialism during the 1930s. Included among the various factors that led to this shift were her experiences at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she went in 1929 to pursue a doctorate in psychology. Grace maintained her commitment to social justice that she had developed in her youth as a working-class Catholic in St. Paul, but now channeled it in a revolutionary direction in a new city. Both her encounter with the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes and her first job as a vocational rehabilitation counselor in the Minnesota Department of Education that she began in 1935 intensified Grace’s evolving view that a socialist society was the only way to address the needs of workers and the exploited. In 1938 Grace entered the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) as a delegate to its founding convention. By September 1940, she left her job at the Minnesota Department of Education—in part because of red baiting during the “little red scare”—to work full-time for the party, leaving the Church (and her husband Gilbert, whom she had married in 1934) behind.

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Outcomes and Risk Factors for Graft Loss: Lessons Learned from 1,056 Pediatric Kidney Transplants at the University of Minnesota

Journal of the American College of Surgeons ◽

10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.12.027 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 224 (4) ◽

pp. 473-486 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Srinath Chinnakotla ◽

Priya Verghese ◽

Blanche Chavers ◽

Michelle N. Rheault ◽

Varvara Kirchner ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Graft Loss ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Kidney Transplants ◽

The University

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Annelies Allain: Pioneer of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes

Journal of Human Lactation ◽

10.1177/0890334418812075 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 15-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Maryse Arendt ◽

Annelies Allain

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

French Language ◽

Full Time ◽

International Code ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Regional Office ◽

Language And Literature ◽

University Of Minnesota Duluth ◽

The University ◽

The Coordinator

Annelies Allain has been at the forefront of global efforts to support and promote breastfeeding for more than 30 years. Her accomplishments continue to affect all of us who work with breastfeeding families. Born in the Netherlands in 1945, Annelies Allain-van Elk received a scholarship and completed a BA from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA. Back in Europe, she obtained a BA in French language and literature (University of Geneva, Switzerland) as well as a translator’s diploma. After 4 years working in West Africa and visits to South America, she returned to Geneva to obtain an MA in development studies. She is fluent in English, French, and Dutch and has working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. Ms. Allain was a co-founder of IBFAN (1979) and the coordinator of IBFAN Europe (1980-1984). In 1984, she moved to Penang, Malaysia, and IBFAN work soon took over as a full-time job. She was instrumental in developing the Code Documentation Centre (1985) and by 1991 it became a foundation (ICDC) registered in the Netherlands. Subsequently, the Centre has trained over 2,000 officials from 148 countries about the International Code, making it the world’s top International Code implementation institution. Among her many other education and advocacy activities, Ms. Allain was a co-founder of WABA (1990) and for many years has been a consultant with UNICEF and WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office on International Code implementation and monitoring. In this interview she provides a firsthand account of how most of the major global breastfeeding protection efforts influencing our current situation came into being. (This is a verbatim interview: MA = Maryse Arendt; AA = Annelies Allain.)

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Project Newgate: The First Five Years

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112877902500104 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 55-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Richard J. Clendenen ◽

John R. Ellingston ◽

Ronald J. Severson

Keyword(s):

Group Counseling ◽

Full Time ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Halfway House ◽

Comprehensive Service ◽

College Work ◽

The University ◽

Group Guidance

The Minnesota Newgate program uses full-time college work as part of a comprehensive service that includes classes within the correctional institu tion, group counseling, and, upon parole, transfer to a halfway house on the University of Minnesota campus. The program's aim is to orient the student toward a promising career; it provides each participant with in tensive group guidance and support as he undertakes unfamiliar tasks and new roles; and it bridges the transition from the correctional institu tion to the community.

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From the Chair

DttP Documents to the People ◽

10.5860/dttp.v46i4.6888 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Hallie Pritchett

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Work Experience ◽

Academic Library ◽

Collection Development ◽

Full Time ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Profound Impact ◽

Library School ◽

The University ◽

Technical Services

Although I have worked in libraries since I was in high school (which was much longer ago than I care to admit), I did not become a librarian until 2007. Why I chose to wait so long before going to library school is a story for another time. But there are some advantages to working as a student employee and then as a full-time paraprofessional in a large academic library—in my case, the University of Minnesota Libraries—before going to library school. One is that over the years I have done just about everything there is to do in a library. I have shelved books, worked in circulation, answered reference questions, done collection development, worked in technical services, shifted collections, done preservation work . . . the list goes on. As first a branch manager and now as a library administrator, the depth and breadth of my work experience in libraries has been invaluable; my work as a paraprofessional in particular has had a profound impact on how I approach librarianship in general.

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