WHAT:

• The San Antonio College Mortuary Science Department will host a talk on “Organ Donation Stakeholder” for funeral service providers and health care professionals.
  
  
• Some of the topics covered will include consumer protection and disclosure, involvement of the funeral director/embalmer as well as the funeral establishment and crematory, the Texas Willed Body Programs and procurement of cadavers for science and research, accreditation issues, transportation, and the Federal Trade Commission funeral rule.

WHEN:

• Thursday, January 31, 1 – 5 p.m.       

           Editors’ Note:  Mr. Robbins and Mortuary Science faculty will be available for
            interviews, including in Spanish, prior to the talk (at about 12:30-12:45 p.m.).

WHERE:

• San Antonio College
  1300 San Pedro Ave., San Antonio, TX 78212
  Visual Arts & Technology Center, Room 120 (corner of Dewey and Lewis streets)

WHO:

• O. C. Robbins, Executive Director, Texas Funeral Service Commission 
  Note:  Senator Jane Nelson has given Mr. Robbins a legislative mandate to coordinate a
  stateside effort to increase organ and tissue donation awareness.  San Antonio College is
  the second of 10 sites where he will be appearing.
  
  
• Attendees will include funeral directors, embalmers, and other health care professionals
  in the San Antonio and surrounding areas.  Funeral directors/embalmerscan earn two
  hours of continuing education credit for attending this talk.

NOTE:

• The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) recently ranked the SAC
  Mortuary Science program as “Exemplary,” which is given to programs that exceed
  the THECB’s required standards of excellence.  So far this year, nine programs at SAC
  have received this ranking.